Government (non-donor capacity) / Egypt

National Nutrition Institute

Goals

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
  • Progress status: No response

Establish a regulatory body for nutrition

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Leadership and governance
  • Goal SMARTness index: Upper moderate
  • Progress status: No response

• 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
  • Progress status: No response

Develop a national nutrition strategy and action plan

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Leadership and governance
  • Goal SMARTness index: Lower moderate
  • Progress status: No response

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
  • Progress status: No response

Increase the national budget dedicated to nutrition

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Financial
  • Goal SMARTness index: Upper moderate
  • Progress status: No response

Expand Vitamin A supplementation to all under 5 children

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Nutrition care services
  • Goal SMARTness index: Upper moderate
  • Progress status: No response

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