Rwanda

Irene Uwonkunda, Head of Nutrition and Hygiene Department, NCDA COUNTRY NUTRITION STATUS PROGRESS TOWARDS Annual country nutrition indicators SUN 3.0 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES (SO) from the Global Nutrition Report: S O.1 Strengthen and sustain strong policy and advocacy environments eastern-africa/rwanda Rwanda’s new national nutrit. [...] While the Social and Date established: 2013 Behaviour Change Communication Strategy for Integrated Early MSP annual action plan exists Childhood Development Nutrition and WASH (2018–2024) provides an enabling environment for the acceleration of Subnational nutrition coordination mechanism nutrition progress, an advocacy strategy for nutrition is missing. [...] 2018–2024 – SO.2 Develop and align shared country priorities for action Advocacy and communications framework/plan During the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit, Rwanda National Social and Behaviour Change Communication Strategy for committed to increase its allocation for nutrition-specific and Integrated Early Childhoo. [...] SO.4 Ensure governance of SUN that promotes country leadership and responsibilities of government, aligns Continuing the national scale-up of the child scorecard and promoting the resources of all SUN Movement stakeholders the consumption of food from animal sources. [...] The nutrition Fighting stunting in villages information and monitoring system is integrated into a functional About: The child scorecard is a tool for monitoring health and nutrition national information system – the Rwandan Integrated Health interventions among individual children at the village level, and Management Information System.