Goal

Reduce the prevalence of low birth weight from 13% to 3%

FROM Commitment: FNS implementation-SD Expansion Scale up

Government / Ethiopia

Ministry of Health

Partner organisations:
Multilateral organisations, including United Nations (UN) agencies: UN SUN Network, UNICEF, Alive and Thrive, FAO, WFP
Country government at any administrative level: Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Water and Energy, Ministry of Women and Social Affairs, MoT and Regional Integration, Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Plan and Development; Transport, Disaster and risk managemnt comission; Ethiopian food and drug Authority
Donor organisation, including philanthropic organisations: SUN Donor Network, USAID, BMGF, Max Foundation, African DB, World Bank, GIZ, Irish AID, CIFF, Big Win
Private sector food business : SUN Business Network and 25 private sectors
Civil society organisation (CSO) or non-governmental organisation (NGO): ECSC SUN, Save the children, CARE, Concern Worldwide, GAIN, Action against Hunger, The Power of Nutrition, World Vision, FH Ethiopia, Pathfinder, JSI, NI, Jhpeigo
Date made: 30 Oct 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 - Seqota Declaration implementation focuses on areas with high stunting prevalence, chronically food insecure, low infrastructure and low in service coverage, low in gender equity, high wasting
Targeted population Overall population (all ages, both sexes)
Primary indicator Prevalence of low birth weight
Primary indicator baseline 13%
Primary indicator target 3%
Duration July, 2021 - June, 2031

Goal action plan

Food and nutrition 10 years costed plan is endorsed and its implementation is started in all regions and city administrations. The food and nutrition coordination platforms will be strengthened in the regions and city administrations by establishing a coordination and governing structures. The implementation will be accelerated by Seqota Declaration expansion phase implementation in 240 woredas which will be expanded to additional 500 woredas during the ten years period.

• Strengthening nutrition actions in to existing health sector transformation plan-II

o Governance and Leadership: Implement nutrition actions in health services as part of health sector transformation plan. Integrate nutrition implementation in Woreda transformation agenda.

o Health work force: Train health workers integrated delivery of nutrition services in life cycle approach. Ensure health workers receive integrated supportive supervision and mentorship that builds their capacity to deliver quality nutrition services.

o Health Service Delivery:

- Increase the effective coverage of essential nutrition services (promotion of breast feeding and complimentary feeding, GMP, VAS, IFA, MMS, community based management of Acute malnutrition, etc) through the health system with special focus on vulnerable groups.

- Integrate and implement nutrition related actions into nutrition smart health services (family planning, EPI, ANC, PNC, etc)

o Access to Nutrition Commodities: Improve the availability, affordability, accessibility and proper administration nutrition commodities.

o Nutrition/Health Information system: Inclusion of major indicators in routine health information system, strengthen and expand digital nutrition information system (UNISE)

o Nutrition Financing: Allocate domestic finance for nutrition actions. Implement resource allocation and expenditure tracking at national and subnational levels

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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