Commitment

DRC nutrition commitments

Government / Democratic Republic of Congo

Programme National de Nutrition-RDC

Partner organisations:
Donor organisation, including philanthropic organisations: World Bank, UKAid, USAID
Academic or non-academic research institution: University School of Public Health
Country government at any administrative level: DRC SUN Movement Civil Society
Civil society organisation (CSO) or non-governmental organisation (NGO): Save The Children International
Multilateral organisations, including United Nations (UN) agencies: UNICEF, WFP, FAO, WHO
Commitment made: 03 Dec 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
Targeted location (aggregate)

National - This will cover the target populations of all the twenty six provinces. | The interventions will be more focused on …

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Commitment description

1. Impact commitment: by 2030 DRC is committed to reducing the prevalence of chronic malnutrition among children under five in DRC, i.e. from 42% to 37%. 2. Financial commitment: by 2030 DRC is committed to allocating sufficient financial resources, i.e. 120 million USD annually to the nutrition and food security sector, to preventing and solving the problem of chronic malnutrition in accordance with the National Multisectoral Nutrition Strategic Plan (2022 to 2026). 3. Political commitment: by October 2022 DRC is committed to strengthening the coordination of SUN-DRC to better fulfil the role of the National Coordination of the Multisectoral Nutrition Platform in DRC Establishing a National School Feeding Policy. 4. 2. Programming commitment: by 2030 DRC is committed to reducing the prevalence of acute malnutrition to less than 5% in children under the age of 5. Reducing the prevalence of anaemia among women of childbearing age to less than 30%, and for children under 5 years of age. Reduce to less than 10% the prevalence of non-communicable diseases, such as obesity, diabetes and hypertension. Improve the minimum acceptable diet (MAD) for children aged from 6 to 23 months. Increase the national coverage rate of health interventions by at least 40%. High impact nutrition for the first 1,000 days of an infant's life through community-based nutrition. 4.1. Sustainable food systems: by 2030 DRC is committed to adopting legislation on mandatory food fortification 4.2. Resilience: by 2030 DRC is committed to developing and implementing a national food and nutrition response and resilience plan in the event of an emergency, disaster or epidemic to meet the needs of vulnerable populations. 4.3. Data: Having a multi-sectoral nutrition platform (routine digital information system, research data and routine legislative data) in real time to inform decision-making, and improve the quality of nutrition services.

Global Nutrition Targets

Anaemia
Under-5 stunting
Under-5 wasting
Adult obesity
Adult diabetes
Under-5 overweight

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 The funder is the DRC Government
Funding mechanism Public funding mechanism.
Cost secured The total costs is fully secured by the DRC government
Total costs estimated Yes, and the amount disclosed to GNR only

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