Commitment

Healthier Diets & Consumer Behaviour

Civil Society Organisation / Namibia

Nutrition and Food Security Alliance of Namiba

Commitment made: 05 Dec 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit | 2021 UN Food Systems Summit
Targeted location (aggregate)

National - Countrywide

Multi-country - Besides Namibia, this could be relevant for the entire SADC Region in Southern Africa.

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Commitment description

NAFSAN will work with the Namibian Government and other national and international stakeholders on campaigns and other activities that promote healthier diets (i.e. reduction of sugar, alcohol, salt, and trans fats, while moving to more diversified diets) and enable consumers to make better choices, e.g. through nutrition-related food labels.

Global Nutrition Targets

Adult obesity
Adult diabetes
Under-5 overweight
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 GIZ and other donors still to be identified
Funding mechanism Partially donor funding and partially government and private funds.
Cost secured 10%
Total costs estimated Yes, and the amount publicly disclosed
Currency (NAD) - Namibian dollar
Cost amount 6,000,000.0
$USD equivalent 364,714.2857 (World Bank average exchange rate for 2021)

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