Commitment

Reduce undernutrition by 35% by 2030

Government / Zambia

National Food and Nutrition Commission of Zambia

Partner organisations:
Country government at any administrative level: Government of Zambia
Private sector food business: Scaling Up Nutrition Business network
Civil society organisation (CSO) or non-governmental organisation (NGO): Civil Society Scaling Up Nutrition
Multilateral organisations, including United Nations (UN) agencies: Nutrition Coorporating Partners (UK, Sweden, EU, German, KFW etc), UN network,
Commitment made: 16 Dec 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit | 2021 UN Food Systems Summit
Targeted location (aggregate)

National - Provincial and district level | National | Provincial and district level across the country | Increase allocation and expenditure on …

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Commitment description

Accelerate scale up of the Scaling Up Nutrition 1st 1000 Most Critical Days Programme from 42 districts to 116 districts by 2030.

This is expected to reduce prevalence of stunting, wasting, low birthweight and anemia in children under five years of age

Global Nutrition Targets

Anaemia
Under-5 stunting
Under-5 wasting
Adult obesity
Under-5 overweight
Low birthweight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Salt/sodium intake

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 Not provided
Funding mechanism Government direct funding and Nutrition CPs through different modalities
Cost secured 120 Million dollars for 5 years
Total costs estimated Not been estimated / unknown

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