Goals, objectives or targets related to nutrition:
Strategic Objective 1: Improve the nutritional status of women (15-49 years) and adolescents (10-19 years)
- 2015 Targets:
- Reducing the proportion of adolescent girls aged 15-19 with a BMI<18.5 from 36% to 25%
- Reducing the prevalence of anaemia among pregnant women from 22% to 12%
Strategic Objective 2: Improve the nutritional status of infants (0-6 months), young children (6-24 months) and children under 5 years
- 2015 Targets:
- Increase the proportion of infants 0-6 months old who are exclusively breastfed from 52% to 70%
- Increase the proportion of breastfed children aged 6-23 months with the mnimum acceptable dietary score from 4% to 20%
- Reduce the prevalence of Bitot’s spots in children aged 6-59 months from 1.7% to less than 0.5%
- Reduce the percentage of children 6-12 years old with median urinary iodine concentration of less than 100µg/l to below 50%
- Increase the proportion of households using iodized salt from 15.4% to 95%
- Reduce the prevalence of anaemia in children 6-59 months from 44% to 25%
- Increase zinc supplementation in the treatment of diarrhoea from 5%to 50%
- Maintain coverage of vitamin A supplementation /de-worming at over 90%
Strategic objective 3: Improve the nutrition service delivery for communicable and non-communicable/lifestyle related diseases (all age groups)
Strategic objective 4: Strengthen implementation of nutrition sensitive across sectors
- Targets:
- Increase the proportion of households consuming fruits and vegetables by 30%
- Increase fruit and vegetable production from 894,000 (2011) tons to 5,905,000 tons by 2015 to improve food diversification at community level
- Increase potable water coverage from 60% to 76%
- Increase the proportion of primary schools with school gardening to 25%
- Increase the proportion of schools that provide biannual de-worming to 60%
Strategic objective 5: Improve multisectoral coordination and capacity to ensure implementation of the NNP
- 2015 targets:
- Increase the proportion of the health development army (HAD; women) trained iun the preparation of complementary food to 60%
- 100% of nutrition sensitive sectors will integrate nutrition in their annual work plan in line with NNP
- 100% of nutrition sensitive sector ministries will assign nutrition focal persons for the sector
- Conduct five National Nutrition Coordinating Body (NNCB) meetings (two meetings per year)
- 100% of the regions will establish a Regional Nutrition Coordinating Body and technical committee