Mechanisms - Steering Committee on Nutrition

Lead government agency:
Ministry of Health
Established year:
2011
Coordination:
  • Convening nutrition partners
Explanations
Mandate: 

It ensures multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder collaboration between 13 ministries and 10 departments as well as donors, United Nations (UN) agencies, academia, the Nutrition Working Group and the Civil Society Alliance (CSA for SUN). There is a strong internal coordination between the MoHFW and the Ministry of Food (MoF)

Notes: 

This coordination mechanism was reported to the WHO Global Nutrition Policy Review 2016-2017. Country progress in creating enabling policy environments for promoting healthy diets and nutrition. https://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/policies/global_nut_policyrev...

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