Expand the HMHB Consortium's network to no less than 300 members by 2025.
Description
The Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies (HMHB) Consortium will achieve this goal by developing and implementing a global advocacy and communications agenda, brokering knowledge around technical issues relating to piloting, supply chains and scaling, with a specific focus on country-level actors. The Consortium will also convene stakeholders to develop a consensus on issues impeding progress. The Consortium aims to build on implementation research to better understand and enhance the feasibility, acceptability and compliance of introducing multiple micronutrient supplementation (MMS).
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
The HMHB Consortium
Description
The HMHB Consortium, hosted by the Micronutrient Forum, commits to grow its membership to no less than 300 members and to establish focal points and liaison entities for MMS in at least 50 countries by 2025. Focal points and liaison entities (representative or organisation) cover anyone working in the field of MMS; for example, policy advocacy, implementation research, demonstration pilots and building supply chain capacity. The Consortium's goal to grow in reach supports the deliberate transition of the distribution of iron and folic acid to MMS in contexts with poor diets, high prevalence of maternal undernutrition and high levels of adverse pregnancy outcomes, notably still births, babies born with low birth weight or who are small for gestational age by 2025. The HMHB Consortium will achieve this goal by developing and implementing a global advocacy agenda, brokering knowledge around technical issues and convening global and country-level stakeholders to develop consensus on issues impeding progress. The Consortium aims to build on implementation research to better understand and enhance the feasibility, acceptability and compliance of introducing MMS.
GNR assessment
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Verified
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| SMARTness index |
High
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Details
| Global nutrition target(s) |
Anaemia
Low birth weight
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Enabling >
Leadership and governance
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Number of new members (organisations or individuals) |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 74 Members | 2021 |
| Target | 300 Members | December 2025 |
Progress
| Value | Measurement date | Status | |
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| Progress report | 158 members | May 2024 |
Off Course
Given the current trajectory, the target is off course to be met by the end date.
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