Ethiopia: National Nutrition Programme / MDG-F Joint Programme
JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS
Total Budget $6,000,000
Delivery Rate
Participating Agencies WFP, UNICEF
Main Achievements
- 16,800 severely malnourished children have received treatment; community management of severe acute malnutrition has been rolled out to 376 health posts.
- Proprotion of functional TFP in health centers has increased from 31% to 98%; 142 health workers and 512 health extension workers trained in the treatment of severe acute malnutrition.
- 29,500 children under two years are weighed every month and mothers/caregivers are counselled to improve infant and child feeding practices. There has been a promising decline in underweight for children under two.
Contact Girma Hailu, girma.hailu@undp.org
While there has been improvement in the rates of malnutrition among children under 5 in Ethiopia, the rate of progress must improve if Ethiopia is to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halving by 2015 the number of people who suffer from hunger. The Ethiopian government has developed a National Nutrition Strategy and National Nutrition Programme, which form the framework for the MDG-F Joint Programme.
The Joint Programme has four components:
1) Creating sustainable out-patient services at the community level to treat children with severe acute malnutrition;
2) Improving caring and feeding practices of children and mothers through Community-Based Nutrition interventions;
3) Improving the production and use of locally-available complementary food; and
4) Strengthening the nutrition information system and M&E mechanisms.
The joint programme will use the existing decentralized service delivery structure and the multi-sectoral coordination mechanisms at the federal, regional, woreda (district) and kebele (neighborhood) levels established by the National Nutrition Programme.