Commitment

Reduce stunting, anemia and overweight.

Government / Rwanda

Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion

Partner organisations:
Country government at any administrative level: Ministry of Health , Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Ministry of Local Government
Commitment made: 07 Dec 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
Targeted location (aggregate)

National -

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Commitment description

1. Reduce the prevalence of stunting among children 0-59 months from 33.1% in 2020 to 10% in 2030

2. Reduce the prevalence of anemia among children 6-59 months, adolescent girls, and pregnant women from 36.6%, 14.7% and 24.5% in 2020 to 20%, 10% and 15% in 2030, respectively

3. Increase the domestic resource allocation for nutrition sensitive and specific intervention from RWF 41 billion (USD 41 million) in 2020/21 to RWF 67 billion (USD 67 million) in 2030.

The Government of Rwanda has been investing funds to reduce malnutrition through several initiatives like Girinka, community-based nutrition programs, elevating ECD and food security… And recently, the government of Rwanda introduced Nutrition budget tagging strategy across all key

sectors affecting Nutrition. This commitment shows that the country’s budget allocation and resources mobilization channelled into nutrition has been growing over the years and the country commits to increase budget allocation to the nutrition cause.

Global Nutrition Targets

Anaemia
Under-5 stunting

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 Government of Rwanda, World Bank, Global Financing Facility, UNICEF, WFP, USAID, JICA, WHO
Funding mechanism Funding mechanisms go through negotiations between the government, development partners and private sector in a multi-sectoral coordinated way. In collaboration with Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, social cluster ministries will increase the budget allocated to nutrition specific and sensitive interventions in order to fill the gaps in the total nutrition budget. Around 70% of the funding comes from public sources followed by external grant (13%) and external loans (12%). However, this does not count financial contributions directly provided by development partners, civil society organizations, etc, which is the outside of government system
Cost secured According to the Nutrition Budget Execution Report (FY2021/22), the total nutrition budget executed was RWF 275 billion, which is 7% of the national budget.
Total costs estimated Not been estimated / unknown

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