Nutrition situation
Under five stunting (%)
32.2
Under five overweight (%)
1.9
Anaemia in women 15-49 years (%)
46.9
Under five wasting (%)
5
Low birth weight (%)
16.9
0 to 5-month-old exclusive breastfeeding (%)
41.4
Adolescent overweight (%)
Male: 6.5
/ Female: 14.9
Adult overweight (%)
Male: 17.1
/ Female: 23.7
Adult obesity (%)
Male: 4.9
/ Female: 14.8
Adult diabetes (%)
Male: 7.4
/ Female: 7
COVID-19 snapshot
The country has recorded 2,643 cases and 41 deaths. Border closures and partial lockdowns led to disruptions in the food system, but the Government managed to develop a specific nutrition plan as part of its response to the pandemic.
Institutional transformations 2019-2020
Bringing people together into a shared space for action
Minister of State and Secretary-General to the Presidency of the Republic appointed as the President’s representative [Food and Nutrition Council – CAN].Process of setting up Monitoring and Evaluation, Gender, Micronutrient, Hygiene etc. Task Forces ongoing.
Standardised Departmental Consultation Frameworks (Atacora, Zou, Collines) introduced.
Twenty thousand Nutrition Assistance Groups established in villages in 40 communes.
Ensuring a coherent policy and legal framework
Revision of the [Strategic Food and Nutrition Development Plan – PSDAN II], which will need to be costed.Validation of the National Food and Nutrition Policy document is under way.
Challenges: establishing municipal consultation frameworks in the 31 remaining municipalities and departmental consultation frameworks in the nine remaining departments.
Aligning actions around common results
Actors from the sector are implementing the Common Results Framework (CRF) through their annual workplans.Sectoral ministries’ performance reports are available.
Challenges: operationalising the CRF’s multisectoral monitoring and evaluation system and activating a synergy of actions to cover the communes not covered by specific nutrition interventions.
Financial tracking and resource mobilisation
Parliament has supported specific nutrition actions by allocating domestic resources to the nutrition budget line.The technical and financial partners are honouring their financial commitments as set out in the annual workplans (90 per cent disbursement).
The School Feeding Programme is budgeted and deserves support to ensure total country coverage.
2020-2021 Priorities
- Review the mechanism for quantitative and qualitative representation of the sectoral ministries in the multi-stakeholder platform.
- Scale up the synergy between sectoral ministries and the platform.
- Strengthen advocacy with the Government to increase public resources for specific nutrition interventions.
- Build the capacity of parliamentary networks.
- Activate a synergy of actions to cover the communes not covered by specific nutrition interventions.
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