| Targeted location (aggregate) |
National - 235 municipalities: Stunting rate >17.5%, Poverty incidence >21%, Kalahi-CIDSS participant, and an HDPRC/PPAN area. |
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| Verification status | Partially Verified Find out more |
Commitment description
The government of the Philippines commits the following goals by 2025. These goals will be achieved by increasing the utilization of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions, improving key nutrition behaviors known to reduce stunting in targeted regions, and implementing the proposed Philippine Multi-sectoral Project (PMNP). The PMNP that will start in 2022 and end on 2025 will strengthen the delivery of nutrition interventions and Primary Health Services delivery, facilitate community-based nutrition service delivery and Multisectoral nutrition convergence, and strengthen the government's monitoring, evaluation, and communication.
Commitment goals
Increase the percentage (%) of community nutrition-sensitive sub-projects completed in accordance to plan, budget and schedule
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Leadership and governance
- Goal SMARTness index: High
Increase percentage (%) of children, 6-23 months of age, in project areas who meet age-appropriate minimum adequate diet (MAD)
- Nutrition Action Classification: Impact > Diet
- Goal SMARTness index: Lower moderate
Increase percentage (%) of primary healthcare facilities scoring at least 65% on the Quality Checklist in participating local government units (LGUs)
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Operational
- Goal SMARTness index: Lower moderate
Increase the number of participating LGUs (municipal and barangay) with approved Local Nutrition Action Plan budgets and expenditures in accordance to plans)
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Leadership and governance
- Goal SMARTness index: High
Increase percentage (%) of target households with access to improved toilets (nutrition-sensitive intervention)
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Operational
- Goal SMARTness index: Lower moderate
Increase percentage (%) of household in participating barangays with convergence of priority nutrition-specific and -sensitive interventions
- Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Nutrition care services
- Goal SMARTness index: Lower moderate
Increase prevalence (%) of pregnant women, in project areas, receiving prescribed antenatal care services from the first trimester of pregnancy
- Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Nutrition care services
- Goal SMARTness index: High
Increase the number of barangays with updated nutrition information on the status of households with pregnant and lactating women and children under 5 years old
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Research monitoring and data
- Goal SMARTness index: High
Increase prevalence (%) of pregnant women who have received complete iron-folic supplements
- Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Nutrition care services
- Goal SMARTness index: High
Increase percentage (%) of infants, 0-5.9 months of age, in project areas who are exclusively breastfed as an age-appropriate diet
- Nutrition Action Classification: Impact > Diet
- Goal SMARTness index: Lower moderate
Global Nutrition Targets
Anaemia
Under-5 stunting
Under-5 wasting
Adult obesity
Adult diabetes
Under-5 overweight
Low birthweight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Salt/sodium intake
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 | World Bank Loan 9832PH (signed by the Department of Finance and WB-IBRD) for the implementation of the Department of Health (DOH; LEAD) and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD; CO-LEAD), with the National Nutrition Council (NNC), the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), Department of Science and Technology - Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST-FNRI). Multisectoral funding that support the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN) for 2023 to 2025 also come from the same agencies, as well as the members of the National Nutrition Council Governing Board--chaired by DOH and vice-chaired by the DILG and the Department of Agriculture--namely: Department of Education, DSWD, Department of Trade and Industry, Department of Labor and Employment, DOST, Department of Budget and Management, and the Director General of the National Economic and Development Authority, and 3 Private Sector Representatives appointed by President from any of the following: (1) health and nutrition professional organizations; (2) women sector; (3) farmer and fisherfolk; (4) urban poor; (5) organization or association of community health workers or BNS; (6) CSOs; and (7) academe and research institutions. Said representatives shall serve for a term of two (2) years. United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Food Programme (WFP) also support the PH government in its national nutrition program. |
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| Funding mechanism | Public (World Bank Loan/GOP funding), private |
| Cost secured | The World Bank Loan is currently pending the full approval. |
| Total costs estimated | Yes, and the amount publicly disclosed |
| Currency | (PHP) - Philippine peso |
| Cost amount | 9,908,027,759.0 |
| $USD equivalent | 200,933,436.6 (World Bank average exchange rate for 2021) |
