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Rwanda - Joined: December 2011

30 Oct 2014

The new National Food and Nutrition Policy Nutrition Steering Committee (SCF&NSC) under the (2013) and the National Food and Nutrition Strategy Prime Minister’s Office is the highest level government (2013-2018) include nutrition specific and nutrition convening body. [...] The private sector has established the as the Maternity Protection Law, Measures for the National Food Fortification Alliance, a platform which Implementation of the International Code of Marketing includes industries, consumer associations, academia and of Breast-milk Substitutes, and Food Fortification. [...] The Swiss 2013, the government launched the “Thousand Days in Agency for Development Cooperation also provided the Land of a Thousand Hills” Nutrition Campaign, which USD 3 million starting 2013 to support implementation of calls government and partners to focus on the available, DPEM in two districts through the One UN Joint Nutrition affordable and cost-effective solutions to improve nutrition P. [...] The Embassy of the Netherlands funded a nutrition during the 1,000 days window of opportunity. [...] Rwanda hosted in early 2014 high level nutrition events such as the 3rd National Nutrition Summit “Promote the first 1,000 Days to Prevent Child Stunting”; the 2nd Global Conference on Bio-fortification; and the Rwanda CAADP II High Level Meeting.
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