Improve access to healthy food and nutrition services for vulnerable pregnant and lactating women and children under 2
Description
Cash transfers targeted for pregnant and lactating women (PLWs) can be extremely beneficial, improving access to diverse diets and essential nutrition and health services. The impact of these transfers on nutrition can be enhanced by nutrition-specific messages as well as other potentially complementary measures. Actions will focus on continuing improvement and delivery for the Identification of Poor Households Programme and the rollout of the Family Package programme for social assistance. Materials need to be developed and finalised for the Cash Transfer Programme for Pregnant Women and Children under 2 Years Old (CTP-PWYC) to be complemented by nutrition messages for PLWs.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
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Nutrition-sensitive social assistance
Description
By 2025, 180,000 eligible women and children will annually receive ‘cash-plus’ transfers via the CTP-PWYC (ie, ‘cash’ payments ‘plus’ complementary nutrition interventions).
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Verified
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| SMARTness index |
High
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Details
| Target population characteristic |
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| Global nutrition target(s) |
Low birth weight
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Policy >
Nutrition care services
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Number of families with PLWs and children under 2 years of age receiving social cash transfer |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 100,000 Families | 2021 |
| Target | 180,000 Families | November 2030 |
Progress
| Value | Measurement date | Status | |
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| Progress report | 278,659 families | December 2023 |
On Course
The data for one year (or an average of years) suggests that the target could be met by its end date.
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