Nutrition situation
Under five stunting (%)
26.2
Under five overweight (%)
4.1
Anaemia in women 15-49 years (%)
27.2
Under five wasting (%)
4.2
Low birth weight (%)
11.5
0 to 5-month-old exclusive breastfeeding (%)
61.4
Adolescent overweight (%)
Male: 5.7
/ Female: 15.9
Adult overweight (%)
Male: 16.1
/ Female: 34.3
Adult obesity (%)
Male: 2.8
/ Female: 11.1
Adult diabetes (%)
Male: 5.8
/ Female: 6.2
COVID-19 snapshot
The effect of the pandemic on livelihoods and social well-being has been very severe. Due to the effects of the lockdown measures, the government has been obliged to introduce exceptions for cargo flights and trucks transporting goods.
Institutional transformations 2019-2020
Bringing people together into a shared space for action
During the pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 period, the multi-stakeholder platform brought all nutrition-related sectors (specific and sensitive) together, to regularly discuss scaling up nutrition interventions. Meetings were held on a monthly basis to discuss nutrition technical issues and integration of nutrition in the COVID-19 response at national and county levels. The Sun Business and Civil Society Networks have increased their number of meetings and liaise more closely with the focal point.Ensuring a coherent policy and legal framework
The Sun Movement multi-stakeholder platform members jointly participated in the finalisation of the Kenya Nutrition Action Plan(KNAP) 2018–2022 at national and county level, supported the Ministry of Agriculture to develop the new agri-nutrition strategy and participated in the discussion on the roll-out of Universal Health Coverage. The Sun Networks aligned their priorities to KNAP and remained engaged in national gender priorities.Aligning actions around common results
At national level, the Networks’ strategies are aligned to the existing KNAP, and the agri-nutrition strategy, which itself was aligned to the nutrition action plans, the food and nutrition security policy and the President’s Big 4 Agenda. At county level, the Civil Society Network supported the county governments to develop policy and nutrition action plans that align to the i) World Health Assembly targets, ii) Sustainable Development Goals, and iii) President’s BIG 4 Agenda.Financial tracking and resource mobilisation
The development and costing of the multisectoral Nutrition Action Plan was completed and it involved stakeholders drawn from national and county level. The Nutrition Action Plan is being used to guide resource mobilisation while the nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive budget tracking tool developed last year was used for budget analysis at regional level and in selected counties. The SUN multi-stakeholder platform has a joint workplan that is monitored every quarter.2020-2021 Priorities
- Strengthen actions that support food safety in Kenya.
- Mobilise support and interventions that promote prevention of noncommunicable diseases.
- Monitoring implementation of nutrition action plans (KNAP and Country Nutrition Action Plans) to track achievement.
- High-level coordination, including aligning county with national engagements.
- Sustainability of the various networks (SUN platforms).
- Strengthen participation of nutrition-sensitive sectors.
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