Commitment

Reduce children's overweight and obesity

Government / Cameroon

CILM

Partner organisations:
Country government at any administrative level: Ministries of Health, Water and Energy, Communication,promotion of women and family
Academic or non-academic research institution: UNIVERSITIES AND CAMEROONIAN NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES SOCIETY
Civil society organisation (CSO) or non-governmental organisation (NGO): Consumer protection associations, COSADER
Multilateral organisations, including United Nations (UN) agencies: UNICEF,WHO, FAO, WFP
Commitment made: 07 Dec 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
Targeted location (aggregate)

National - For a start in urban areas with high prevalence of overweight and obesity among children under five years of age
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Commitment description

reduce prevalence of overweight and obesity in children under 5years of age from 11% in 2018 to less than 5% in 2030

Commitment goals

Establish a national nutrition education programme

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Consumer knowledge
  • Goal SMARTness index: Upper moderate

Global Nutrition Targets

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 This commitment was only costed in medium term expenditure framework of the Ministry of public health, bute the other minitries involved , since this commitment will be transmitted by the Prime Minister to all relevant stakeholders, .they will have to integrate them to their planning and then cost and budget them
Funding mechanism Financing mechanism through the annual working plan, financing by FEICOM , decentralised local authorities ( Council, technical and financial partners and the private sector.
Cost secured Not available
Total costs estimated Not been estimated / unknown

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