| Targeted location (aggregate) |
National - All geographic areas |
|---|---|
| Verification status | Verified Find out more |
Commitment description
In The Gambia, the National Nutrition Agency in collaboration with the Food Safety and Quality Authority, The Gambia Standards Bureau, the Ministries of Health and Agriculture and other partners commit to scale up micronutrient deficiency control in The Gambia through; enforcing the Food Fortification Regulation 2020, expanding the bio-fortification interventions, building capacity and monitoring of compliance, micronutrient nutrition supplementation and Social and Behavioural Change Communication.
Commitment goals
To increase the proportion of children 6-59 months supplemented with Vitamin A
- Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Nutrition care services
- Goal SMARTness index: High
To increase the proportion of children 12 - 59 months dewormed in the last 6 months
- Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Nutrition care services
- Goal SMARTness index: High
To increase the proportion of households consuming iodized salt
- Nutrition Action Classification: Impact > Diet
- Goal SMARTness index: High
To increase the proportion of pregnant women supplemented with Iron and folic acid for a period of 90 days
- Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Nutrition care services
- Goal SMARTness index: High
Global Nutrition Targets
Anaemia
Low birthweight
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 | Government and development partners: UN Agencies (UNICEF, WHO, WFP, IFAD and FAO); European Union, the World Bank, African Development Bank, Islamic Development Bank, Global Fund |
|---|---|
| Funding mechanism | Private and public |
| Cost secured | Partial |
| Total costs estimated | Yes, and the amount publicly disclosed |
| Currency | (GMD) - Gambian dalasi |
| Cost amount | 111,939,650.0 |
| $USD equivalent | 2,173,585.437 (World Bank average exchange rate for 2021) |
