Reduce wasting prevalence in children under five years of age

By 2030, Cambodia commits to reduce wasting prevalence among children under five years of age to 5% through increased nutrition health services in primary health care, coverage of child wasting identification and receiving treatment; enhanced financing, policies, and guidelines; improved practices of child growth monitoring and Infant and Young Child Feeding, and mitigated financial barriers to enable equal access to and utilization of nutrition services.

Commitment strategies:

A. Increased coverage of screening, referral, receiving treatment, and recovered of severe and moderate wasting children by 2030.

B. Increased annually the national budget for nutrition program interventions and nutrition commodities for treatment of severe and moderate wasting.

C. Increased coverage of health care service capacity development for management of moderate and severe wasting children and enhanced quality of program management and monitoring.