Commitment

Stunting under 5 reduced to 10%

Government / Sri Lanka

Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka

Partner organisations:
Multilateral organisations, including United Nations (UN) agencies: WHO Country Office, UNICEF Country Office
Country government at any administrative level: Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Social Services
Commitment made: 31 Oct 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
Targeted location (aggregate)

National - National with representative sample

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Commitment description

One of the policy priority areas under the National Nutrition Policy of Sri Lanka is Nutrition improvement throughout the life course. Based on this priority, Multisector Action Plan for Nutrition 2018-2025 clearly identifies "Reduce the Prevalence of Stunting to 10.8%" as a key result area. As the country works towards this commitment, it is rational and practical to include it for N4G..

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, UNICEF, WHO, WFP
Funding mechanism Public, UN
Cost secured Government yearly budgetary allocation is secured, Included in the WHO biennium Programme, Priority in the UNICEF funding. (The amount of LKR 20 million mentioned above is a rough annual estimate - annual allocation may vary)
Total costs estimated Yes, and the amount publicly disclosed
Currency (LKR) - Sri Lankan Rupee
Cost amount 20,000,000.0
$USD equivalent 100,623.868 (World Bank average exchange rate for 2021)

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