Sri Lanka
Nutrition for Growth (N4G) commitment
Reported progress
Assessment
Increase domestic financial and technical resources for nutrition in health, agriculture, and education sectors by up to 30% by 2016.
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1. Prevalence of stunting and underweight children reduced by 40% to 8.4% by 2016.
2. Reduce wasting to less than 5%.
3. Prevalence of low birth weight children reduced to 11.9% by 2016.
4. Prevalence of underweight women reduced by 30% to 11.1% by 2016.
5. Prevalence of anaemia reduced among children aged 6–59 months to 16.5% and among non- pregnant women aged 15–45 years to 18% by 2016 (50% reduction).
6. No increase of overweight children under 5 years from 2012 figures.
7. Household food insecurity reduced to 10% of households by 2016 (from 20% in 2009).
8. Reduction of households not having access to safe drinking water to 8.4% by 2016 and reduction of households lacking adequate sanitation facilities to 10% by 2016.
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