Commitment

Nurturing Local Governance of Health Promotion and Nutrition in Covid-19 Era

Civil Society Organisation / Cameroon

Helen Keller Intl

Commitment made: 31 Oct 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
Targeted location (aggregate)

Sub-national - The local governance project in health promotion targets three regions, namely Adamaoua (05 communes), East (04 communes) and West (14 …
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Commitment description

Accelerate Local Nutrition Governance by engaging Cameroon's mayors to commit 1% of their local council's budget to support Nutrition Specific Interventions.

The aim of this commitment is to foster local governance in the area of health promotion in the municipalities.

The beneficiary communes are 23 in number, divided into four target regions.

Adamaoua, East and West are the beneficiary regions of this local governance project.

The East region has four (04), the Adamaoua region has five communes and the West region has fourteen communes.

All the communes in the Adamaoua and East regions have allocated between 2% and 10% of their annual budget to health and nutrition promotion.

Commitment goals

Advocate with mayors to allocate specific budget lines for health promotion and during the municipal councils the mayors dedicated amounts for health promotion and nutrition in each commune

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Financial
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

Global Nutrition Targets

Under-5 stunting
Under-5 wasting
Under-5 overweight
Exclusive breastfeeding

Nutrition Action Classification across all goals

Enabling

  • Financial
  • Operational
  • Leadership and governance
  • Research monitoring and data

Policy

  • Food environment
  • Food supply chain
  • Consumer knowledge
  • Nutrition care services

Impact

  • Undernutrition
  • Diet
  • Obesity and diet-related NCDs
  • Food and nutrition security

N4G themes covered by goals

  • Food
  • Health
  • Resilience
  • Data
  • Financing

Total funding and costs across all goals

Funders GIZ
Funding mechanism Public funding
Cost secured Total amount committed by local councils for Nutrition move from 10,00,000 CFA in 2020 to 1.493.700.000 CFA approx 2.5 million USD in 2022. This amount is considered secured as is clearlypart of the budget of the local councils.
Total costs estimated Yes, and the amount publicly disclosed
Currency (CFA) - CFA Franc
Cost amount 10,000,000.0
$USD equivalent 17,373.77949 (World Bank average exchange rate for 2021)

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