Goal

Increase the percentage of nutrition-specific interventions implemented through UHC that achieve annual programme coverage targets

FROM Commitment: Nutrition into ESP to achieve UHC

Government / Yemen

Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation

Partner organisations:
Country government at any administrative level: Ministry of Public Health and Population (MOPHP)
Donor organisation, including philanthropic organisations: WHO, UNICEF, FAO, WFP
Date made: 08 Dec 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit | 2021 UN Food Systems Summit
Verification status Verified Find out more
NAF SMARTness index High Find out more
Targeted location National - All governorates
Targeted population Overall population (all ages, both sexes)
Primary indicator Percentage of nutrition-specific interventions implemented through UHC that achieve annual programme coverage targets
Primary indicator baseline ~50% (TBC)
Primary indicator target 0.8
Duration December, 2021 - December, 2030

Goal action plan

Embedding nutrition actions into the National UHC directions towards ensuring accessibility, affordability, and availavility of essential health and nutrition service package (ESP). The national Plan of Action (YAP) will determine the responsilities across all health systems' components by operationalizing an essential service package nationwide. This will be achieved through:

1. Essential Nutrition Actions will be integrated into the national health systems for delivery of the UHC plan;

2. IYCF will be in all PHC service platforms and in hospital children OPD services by increased effective coverage of essential nutrition actions through the health system, with a focus on reaching the most vulnerable;

3. scaling up counselling on Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) services by skilled health care practitioners at least 50% of revelant platforms for maternal and child care service delivery in health facilities and at communtiy level (antenatal, perinatal and postpartum, pediatric OPD) contact points;

4. scaling up the coverage of other essential nutrition actions specifically, EBF fro less than six months , Micronutrient Powder (MNP) coverage for children 6-23 months, IFA supplemenation of PLW's, IFA supplementation of adolescent girls.

5. scaling up the number of trained Community Health and Nutrition Volunteers to support increased coverage of integrated H&N services.

6. Scale up efforts to promote, protect and support appropriate Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practices, including the implementation and expansion of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) and Baby Friendly Community Initiative (BFCI).

7. Scale up of IYCF corners for pregnant and lactating mothers about breastfeeding and complementary feeding. Strengthen monitoring of BMS code violations.

8. Promote home gardening programmes to produce nutritious foods, including seeds and mini-irrigation kits.

9. Cash support for small food industries for rural households.

10. Development of children's recipes for complementary foods.

11. Provide cash vouchers, particularly targeted at improving dietary consumption of fruits and vegetables at household level and to housholds targeting the 1000 days.

12. Provide general food assistance (GFA).

Progress will be assessed by the governemnt authorites every two years

Nutrition Action Classification

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

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