At the World Health Assembly (WHA) on 25 May 2017, Vice-Minister of Health Dr. Fernando Cornejo announced Ecuador’s commitments, in response to the call of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025), in a meeting with PAHO Director Carissa Etienne and Dr. Oleg Chestnov, WHO’s Assistant Director-General for Noncommunicable Diseases.
SMART commitment:
Commitment 4 - OBJETIVO 4 Propiciar la participación comunitaria e intersectorial.
SMART commitment details:
Acciones:
- Propiciar la participación comunitaria e intersectorial.
- Acompañamiento ciudadano a madres, embarazadas en riesgo, recién nacidos con bajo peso al nacer y niñas/os con desnutrición o en riesgo, para re-establecer el vínculo con el establecimiento de salud.
- Fortalecer las mesas distritales intersectoriales e interinstitucionales para el acompañamiento en la generación de política pública.
Links to the ICN2 Framework for Action:
- 3: Strengthen and establish, as appropriate, national cross-government, inter-sector, multi-stakeholder mechanisms for food security and nutrition to oversee implementation of policies, strategies, programmes and other investments in nutrition. Such platforms may be needed at various levels, with robust safeguards against abuse and conflicts of interest.
- 25: Strengthen health systems and promote universal health coverage, particularly through primary health care, to enable national health systems to address malnutrition in all its forms.
- 26: Improve the integration of nutrition actions into health systems through appropriate strategies for strengthening human resources, leadership and governance, health system financing and service delivery, as well as the provision of essential medicines, information and monitoring.