National Nutrition Institute
Goals
Increase coverage of under-5 children who receive routine iron and folate supplementation
- Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Nutrition care services
- Goal SMARTness index: High
increase coverage of pregnant women who receive routine iron and folate supplementation
- Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Nutrition care services
- Goal SMARTness index: High
Revive and sustain the national program for wheat flour fortification with iron and folic acid
- Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Food supply chain
- Goal SMARTness index: High
Goals
Increase the national budget dedicated to nutrition
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Financial
- Goal SMARTness index: Upper moderate
scale up training for personnel of the primary healthcare sector and other health personnel on nutrition screening and provision of advice and counselling on breastfeeding and complementary feeding making use …
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Operational
- Goal SMARTness index: Upper moderate
Develop a national nutrition strategy and action plan
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Leadership and governance
- Goal SMARTness index: Lower moderate
Establish a regulatory body for nutrition
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Leadership and governance
- Goal SMARTness index: Upper moderate
integrate nutrition training on the life course, with a focus on breastfeeding and infant and young child feeding, in the curricula of medicine and nursing faculties and nursing schools and …
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Operational
- Goal SMARTness index: Lower moderate
Improve food labelling laws and regulations, particularly to highlight the nutritional components of packaged foods.
- Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Food environment
- Goal SMARTness index: High
Expand Vitamin A supplementation to all under 5 children
- Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Nutrition care services
- Goal SMARTness index: Upper moderate
