Achieve improved nutrition in Laos by 2025 by supporting the government to achieve the targets of the NPAN 2021-2025, particularly related to SBCC, ODF and Gender Equality in nutrition in targeted provinces.
Description
• Support the government's SBCC goals. Implement SBCC actions in at least 15 provinces that support community-level nutrition behaviour change.
• Participate in the nutrition SBCC task force.
• Support ODF targets by implementing ODF and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) activities in 10 provinces by 2025. Contribute actions that achieve ODF in five provinces before 2025.
• Support inclusion of gender mainstreaming into provincial development plans – for example, the
• Provincial Health Office (PHO) reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) development plans.
• Support reduction in gender-equitable barriers to access to RMNCH services and nutrition via SBCC activities.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
SUN CSA nutrition support to the National Plan of Action on Nutrition (NPAN) in Lao PDR
Description
SUN CSA Laos commits to supporting the government of Lao PDR in its National Plan of Action on Nutrition 2021–2025. This includes:
• Goal 1: SUN CSA Laos supports the government of Lao PDR in the dissemination and awareness of the national BMS code in at least 10 provinces.
• Goal 2: Achieve improved nutrition in Laos by 2025 by supporting the government to achieve the targets of the NPAN 2021–2025, particularly related to social behaviour change communication (SBCC), open defecation free (ODF) and gender equality in nutrition in targeted provinces.
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
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Enabling >
Leadership and governance
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Number of organisations reporting more than 100 new activities that support achievement of NPAN 2021–2025 indicators across at least 15 provinces |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 0 Organisations | 2021 |
| Target | 20 Organisations | December 2025 |
Progress
| Value | Measurement date | Status | |
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| Progress report | 52 organisations | December 2023 |
Reached by end date
The target had been reached on or before the end date.
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