Access to nutritious diets, essential nutrition services, feeding and care practices
Description
UNICEF will reach at least 300 million children under 5 years of age annually with advocacy, policies and programmes that promote access to nutritious and safe diets, essential nutrition services and positive feeding and care practices to prevent stunting and other forms of malnutrition and support early childhood growth and development in more than 130 countries.
This commitment will look at the following measures:
1. Number of primary caregivers reached with IYCF counselling
2. Number of children 6-59 months who received two dose of vitamin A supplementation
3. Number of children 6-59 months who received multiple micronutrient supplementation (MNP)s.
4. Number of children 12-59 months reached with deworming.
5. Number of children reached with policies, programmes and practices to protect, promote and support early childhood development.
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Pending verification
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| SMARTness index |
Upper moderate
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Details
| Target population characteristic |
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| Global nutrition target(s) |
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood overweight
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Policy >
Nutrition care services
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| Linked event(s) |
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| N4G Summit theme(s) |
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Number of children under 5 years of age who benefit from a minimum package of nutrition interventions (diets, services and practices) for the early prevention of stunting |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 434,300,000 Number of children under 5 years of age benefited | Unknown 2023 |
| Target | 300,000,000 Number of children under 5 years of age benefited | December 2029 |
