Commitment

Reduce Household Food insecurity to 5%

Government / Sri Lanka

Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka

Partner organisations:
Country government at any administrative level: Ministry of Policy Planning, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Trade, Ministry of Finance
Commitment made: 01 Nov 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit | 2021 UN Food Systems Summit
Targeted location (aggregate)

National - low income setting as Estate sector

Verification status Verified Find out more

Commitment description

This falls as one of the areas identified by the National Nutrition Policy as a priority policy area - Food and nutrition security for all citizens-. Also, it is one of the key result areas taken up by the country under the multi sector action plan " Reduce food security among households by 505 from 2009 baseline. As there is a clear commitment within the country, it is wise to include to N4G.

Global Nutrition Targets

Anaemia
Under-5 stunting
Under-5 wasting
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 Budgetary allocation from Treasury
Funding mechanism Public
Cost secured Partially secured (the amount of LKR 10 million mentioned above is a rough estimate of annual allocation in health sector - annual allocation may vary)
Total costs estimated Yes, and the amount publicly disclosed
Currency (LKR) - Sri Lankan Rupee
Cost amount 10,000,000.0
$USD equivalent 50,311.93399 (World Bank average exchange rate for 2021)

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