| Targeted location (aggregate) |
National - Upper Egypt frontier and urban governorates | all | Upper Egypt, Frontier and urban governorates | Upper Egypt, Frontier governorates … |
|---|---|
| Verification status | Find out more |
Commitment description
The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population commits to reduce the prevalence of stunting from 21% to less than 10%, among 12.7 million children under five years of age in the country by 31 December 2030. This will be achieved by accelerating scale-up of implementation of high-impact nutrition-specific and sensitive interventions. Progress will be assessed through the Egyptian Family Health Issues Survey, to be implemented every 4 years.
Commitment goals
Increase the national budget dedicated to nutrition
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Financial
- Goal SMARTness index: Upper moderate
scale up training for personnel of the primary healthcare sector and other health personnel on nutrition screening and provision of advice and counselling on breastfeeding and complementary feeding making use …
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Operational
- Goal SMARTness index: Upper moderate
Develop a national nutrition strategy and action plan
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Leadership and governance
- Goal SMARTness index: Lower moderate
Establish a regulatory body for nutrition
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Leadership and governance
- Goal SMARTness index: Upper moderate
integrate nutrition training on the life course, with a focus on breastfeeding and infant and young child feeding, in the curricula of medicine and nursing faculties and nursing schools and …
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Operational
- Goal SMARTness index: Lower moderate
Improve food labelling laws and regulations, particularly to highlight the nutritional components of packaged foods.
- Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Food environment
- Goal SMARTness index: High
Expand Vitamin A supplementation to all under 5 children
- Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Nutrition care services
- Goal SMARTness index: Upper moderate
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 | Government of Egypt |
|---|---|
| Funding mechanism | Public |
| Cost secured | 20% |
| Total costs estimated | Yes, and not willing to disclose the amount |
