Expand school feeding among adolescent girls and women in provinces with a high prevalence of malnutrition and food insecurity by 30%

The Public Health Nutrition Association (PHENA) – Burundi Plan includes six strategic objectives:

1. Leadership and advocacy: to lead a comprehensive strategy to fight malnutrition and advocate to involve everyone.

2. Development/implementation: to collaborate with all partners to help each other in the implementation of our programmes to combat malnutrition in general.

3. Prevention:

a. To work with schools and structures to build students' capacity on health–nutrition.

b. To collaborate with the government and existing nutrition actors to inform and educate young people and those around them on issues related to nutrition.

c. To interact with schools and communities to ensure that the themes and topics of exchange that promote increased knowledge and skills in health and nutrition are both discussed and shared during training sessions for young people in the Health–Nutrition Clubs.

d. To work with each administrative entity and with community organisations to encourage the creation of an environment that promotes good nutritional practices and, where appropriate, to assist youth associations in developing themselves in ways that ensure their empowerment, both economically and socially.

e. To encourage the community to adopt customs and habits that promote the strengthening of and knowledge in health and nutrition by setting up clubs in the community called ‘Nutrition Friend Clubs'.

f. To equip the members of the Nutrition Friend Clubs with knowledge in health and nutrition, particularly with regard to nutritional principles and household economic empowerment, and ensure that the necessary activities and support are carried out.

g. To facilitate the integration of malnutrition platforms into PHENA programmes through projects aimed at empowering the and other relevant initiatives.

h. To establish Nutrition Exchange Centres (eg, at gymnasiums, with animation and presentations on nutrition-centred themes and organisation of nutrition days).

i. To promote the production of highly nutritional foods (providing training on good cultivation practices for crops and encouraging agropastoral entrepreneurship through the agricultural and livestock breeder associations).

j. To animate radio and television programmes focusing on the prevention and management of malnutrition.

4. Intervention: to facilitate well-being and access to healthcare for people in a fragile state of nutritional health (pregnant and lactating women, the elderly, children under 5 years of age, people displaced by war and/or natural disasters, people suffering from chronic diseases

or diseases related to nutrition, such as hypertension, diabetes, HIV, cancer, etc.) through the establishment of a ‘mutuality system’, a regular personalised monitoring plan and a specialised care centre, as well as through strengthening of school canteens in schools.

5. Research: to promote education and scientific research in human nutrition.

6. Governance: to govern and operate effectively and efficiently, in accordance with PHENA's core values.

These strategic objectives are in line with the expectations of partners, ensuring that the beneficiaries of the interventions are adequately included and engaged in their implementation. They form the basis of the strategic plan, which in turn supports the annual operating plan and the operational budget.