Commitment

Reduce stunting from 29% to 15% in 2030

Government / Cameroon

CILM

Partner organisations:
Multilateral organisations, including United Nations (UN) agencies: UNICEF, OMS
Civil society organisation (CSO) or non-governmental organisation (NGO): Helen Keller International, ACF, COSADER
Country government at any administrative level: Ministries of Health, Water and Energy, Communication,promotion of women and family
Academic or non-academic research institution: Cameroonian society of nutrition sciences
Commitment made: 07 Dec 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
Targeted location (aggregate)

National - National in all the ten regions of the country | in all the regions with high prevalence of stunting: Adamaoua, …

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Commitment description

Reduce the prevalence of stunting in children of under 5 years of age from 29% in 2018 (DHS) to 15% at 2030.

Global Nutrition Targets

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 this commitment has not yet been costed globally but related activities are integrated into the medium-term expenditure framework in each sector concerned.
Funding mechanism the private sector is not very involved in nutrition activities, however the food fortification industries have begun their support for the implementation of community-led interventions to fight against malnutrition and will be involved.
Cost secured The specific actions selected for this commitment will be implemented in each structure concerned and with its own resources and we will evaluate this semi-annually through the half-yearly performance reports.
Total costs estimated Not been estimated / unknown

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