| Targeted location (aggregate) |
National - Estate sector will be monitored closely |
|---|---|
| Verification status | Verified Find out more |
Commitment description
One of the policy priority areas of National Nutrition Plan of Sri Lanka is Nutrition Improvement throughout the life course. Under the said policy, Sri lanka is working towards a key result area on Reducing Prevalence of Low Birth Weight to 10% by 2025. But due to unexpected COIVID19 epidemic, we realize that what is feasible is to reduce Low Birth weight to 10% and we will work for more. Hence it was chosen to include for N4G.
Global Nutrition Targets
Low birthweight
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 | Regular budgetary allocation from the treasury to health sector for nutrition specific interventions. Also regular allocation to implement Nutrition Plan, inclusive of all the activities, is secured annually by UNICEF, WFP and WHO. |
|---|---|
| Funding mechanism | Public and Donor agency |
| Cost secured | Partially secured (the amount of 20,000,000 mentioned above is a rough annual estimate - exact annual allocation may vary) |
| Total costs estimated | Yes, and the amount publicly disclosed |
| Currency | (LKR) - Sri Lankan Rupee |
| Cost amount | 20,000,000.0 |
| $USD equivalent | 100,623.868 (World Bank average exchange rate for 2021) |
