Goal

Percentage of households with handwashing devices

FROM Commitment: Reduce stunting from 29% to 15% in 2030

Government / Cameroon

CILM

Partner organisations:
Country government at any administrative level: Ministries of Health, Water and Energy, Communication,promotion of women and family
Academic or non-academic research institution: Cameroonian society of nutrition sciences
Civil society organisation (CSO) or non-governmental organisation (NGO): Helen Keller International, ACF, COSADER
Multilateral organisations, including United Nations (UN) agencies: UNICEF, OMS
Date made: 07 Dec 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
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NAF SMARTness index Upper moderate Find out more
Targeted location National - in all the regions with high prevalence of stunting: Adamaoua, North, Far-North, East and North-west and South -west
Targeted population Overall population (all ages, both sexes)
Primary indicator Percentage (%) of households with a handwashing place
Primary indicator baseline 36,42%
Primary indicator target 60%
Duration January, 2022 - December, 2030

Goal action plan

Strengthening the capacity of communities to promote drinking water drinking water techniques, essential family practices and handwashing with clean running water and soap,

Production of materials to promote drinking water drinking water techniques, essential family practices and hand washing with clean running water and soap

Promotion of handwashing with soap at critical/key moments (before eating, after going to latrines, before breastfeeding the infant, after playing)

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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