Reduce anaemia in children under the age of 5 years by 61% to 40%
Description
Actions towards this goal include:
1. Strengthening governance, multisectoral coordination and partnerships.
2. Increasing equitable access to good-quality health and nutrition care and services, including the management of malnutrition in all its forms.
3. Increasing and diversifying the availability of and access to safe and nutritious food for all Canadians.
4. Strengthening social protection for, resilience to and the response to emergencies and natural disasters.
5. Promoting practices for optimal nutrition and basic hygiene and sanitation.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Youth, Let’s Save Humanity Through Nutrition
Description
The Public Health Nutrition Association – Burundi commits to:
1. Reducing the number of children under 5 years of age who are victims of retardation growth (from 56% to 46%).
2. Reducing the prevalence of global acute malnutrition in children under 5 years of age from 5.1% to 3.0%.
3. Reducing the prevalence of underweight infants at birth from 10% to 7%.
4. Reducing anaemia among women of childbearing age by 39% to 20%.
5. Reducing anaemia in children under 5 years of age by 61% to 40%.
6. Increasing rates of exclusive breastfeeding during the first six months of life from 83% to at least 90%.
7. Reducing the percentage of overweight children under 5 years of age from 1.4% to 1.0%.
8. Reducing the percentage of women of childbearing age with a lean body mass index (ie, under 18.5) from 19% to 14%.
9. Reducing the prevalence of obesity among women of childbearing age (15–49 years of age) from 8% to 5%.
10. Reducing the prevalence of underweight children under 5 years of age from 29% to 20%.
11. Reducing the level of food insecurity by 50% of individuals (19% to 10%).
12. Expanding school feeding by 30% among adolescent girls and women in provinces with a high prevalence of malnutrition and food insecurity.
13. Ensuring coverage of 50% of social protection cash transfers to highly vulnerable populations and disaster victims.
14. Creating and making operationally appropriate structures to coordinate implementation of the Multisectoral Strategic Plan for Food Security and Nutrition at the national, provincial and communal levels.
15. Mobilising internal and external resources and allocating them to the implementation of the Multisectoral Strategic Plan for Food Security and Nutrition.
This action will be executed for 10 years (from 1 January 2022 through 31 December 2032), with at least half of that reduction achieved in the first 5 years. Progress will be assessed using the Public Health Association Survey, which is conducted every three years. A total of €5 million has been secured by the supporting budget to cover associated costs and is partially supported via partnership with other organisations, governments, associations or donors.
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Unverified
Find out more
|
|---|---|
| SMARTness index |
Low
Find out more
|
Details
| Target population characteristic |
|
|---|---|
| Global nutrition target(s) |
Exclusive breastfeeding
Adult obesity
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
Childhood overweight
Anaemia
Low birth weight
Adult diabetes
Raised blood pressure
|
| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Impact >
Undernutrition
Find out more
|
| Linked event(s) |
|
| N4G Summit theme(s) |
|
Measurement
| Key indicator | Prevalence of children under 5 years of age with anaemia |
|---|---|
| Measurement plan | Use data collected by others |
| Value | Measurement date | |
|---|---|---|
| Baseline | 61% | None |
| Target | 40% | January 2027 |
