Reduce prevalence of stunting in children under 5 years

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.