Maternal, infant and young child nutrition: draft comprehensive implementation plan
In January 2012 the 130th Executive Board considered the report on "maternal, infant and young child nutrition: draft comprehensive implementation plan" and, expressing appreciation for the work completed to date, requested the Secretariat to conduct further consultations regarding the targets via a web-based process open to all Member States (and where applicable, regional economic integration organizations) as well as multilateral organizations (EB130/DIV/3).
The goal of global targets is to highlight key priority areas that must be addressed to alleviate the double burden of malnutrition in children, starting with the earliest stages of development, so that optimal nutrition and health can be achieved. Global targets are also meant to provide a benchmark for the international community to measure achievements, identify gaps and trigger corrective actions, and estimate global resource requirements.
Global targets will need to be translated into national targets, based on the country-specific context, such as epidemiology of nutritional conditions, risk factor trends, experience with developing and implementing nutrition policies, level of development of health systems and previous experience with interventions. Establishing national targets will help develop national policies and programmes and calculate the level of resources required for their implementation.
The proposed targets will have to be achieved by 2022 and progress will be measured against a baseline in 2010.
A web-based consultation with member States, international organisations (and where applicable, regional economic integration organizations) is now open, with a start date of 6 February and an end date of 27th February 2012.
Providing comments for this consultation are now closed.