5 Stop nutritional stunting of young children. STRATEGY ACTION

Mobilise critical actors (state, civil society and business) towards the goal of zero-stunting.

› Provide support to Grow Great to operationalise zerostunting strategies.

› Galvanise civil society and government to recognise stunting as a key national issue.

› Build a coalition of civil society actors who collaborate on key initiatives and advocacy strategies to reduce stunting.

› Ensure that systems for routine monitoring of key nutrition outcomes are operationalised.

Utilise a food-systems approach to leverage innovative interventions that reduce and prevent stunting.

› Explore a child-centred food-systems approach to increase access and diversity of the diets of children.

› Outline the opportunities that exist at the household and community level to reduce stunting.

› Increase investment and support innovations that improve nutritional outcomes and household food security.

› Support food system policy framing under Opportunity 3.

Outcome

› The prevalence of stunting for children under 5 reduces from about 23% to 16% by 2027.

› Improved availability of data on nutrition outcomes at community level.

› Government accepts the Maternal Support Grant (MSG) as a mechanism to improve birth and stunting outcomes.

› National Department of Health (NDoH) adopts key elements of systems for supporting community healthcare workers (CHWs).

› Increased access to diverse and nutritious diets at community level.

› Increased diversity of approaches to preventing stunting in communities.