Commitment

To provide sufficient financial resources up $120 millions each year.

Government / Democratic Republic of Congo

December 2021 — December 2030

Description

Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)

Title

DRC nutrition commitments

Description

1. Impact commitment: by 2030 DRC is committed to reducing the prevalence of chronic malnutrition among children under five in DRC, i.e. from 42% to 37%. 2. Financial commitment: by 2030 DRC is committed to allocating sufficient financial resources, i.e. 120 million USD annually to the nutrition and food security sector, to preventing and solving the problem of chronic malnutrition in accordance with the National Multisectoral Nutrition Strategic Plan (2022 to 2026). 3. Political commitment: by October 2022 DRC is committed to strengthening the coordination of SUN-DRC to better fulfil the role of the National Coordination of the Multisectoral Nutrition Platform in DRC Establishing a National School Feeding Policy. 4. 2. Programming commitment: by 2030 DRC is committed to reducing the prevalence of acute malnutrition to less than 5% in children under the age of 5. Reducing the prevalence of anaemia among women of childbearing age to less than 30%, and for children under 5 years of age. Reduce to less than 10% the prevalence of non-communicable diseases, such as obesity, diabetes and hypertension.Improve the minimum acceptable diet (MAD) for children aged from 6 to 23 months. Increase the national coverage rate of health interventions by at least 40%. High impact nutrition for the first 1,000 days of an infant's life through community-based nutrition. 4.1. Sustainable food systems: by 2030 DRC is committed to adopting legislation on mandatory food fortification 4.2. Resilience: by 2030 DRC is committed to developing and implementing a national food and nutrition response and resilience plan in the event of an emergency, disaster or epidemic to meet the needs of vulnerable populations. 4.3. Data: Having a multi-sectoral nutrition platform (routine digital information system, research data and routine legislative data) in real time to inform decision-making, and improve the quality of nutrition services.

GNR assessment

Verification status
Unverified
Find out more
SMARTness index

Details

Target population characteristic
  • Age or life course stage/status
  • Community geography
  • Socioeconomic status
Global nutrition target(s)
Anaemia
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
Childhood overweight
Adult obesity
Adult diabetes
Raised blood pressure
Nutrition Action Classification(s)
Enabling > Financial
Find out more
Linked event(s)
  • 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
N4G Summit theme(s)
  • Food
  • Health
  • Resilience
  • Data
  • Financing

Measurement

Key indicator Disbursement
Value Measurement date
Baseline USD 0 2021
Target USD 120,000,000 December 2030

Progress

Status:
Progress not able to be assessed
Why this status?
Despite the commitment maker’s active participation in the process, they were unable to provide the required information about the baseline data or the progress indicator’s updated (latest) level or status.
Value Measurement date
Progress report

Share this commitment