Capacities of the Nutrition Sector in Senegal
In Senegal, government commitment to nutrition has increased progressively in recent decades. Thecreation in 2001 of the Cellule de Lutte Contre la Malnutrition (the Nutrition Coordination Unit) (CLM) and its Bureau Exécutif National (the National...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/191791568915774888/Capacities-of-the-Nutrition-Sector-in-Senegal http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32472 |
| Summary: | In Senegal, government commitment to
nutrition has increased progressively in recent decades.
Thecreation in 2001 of the Cellule de Lutte Contre la
Malnutrition (the Nutrition Coordination Unit) (CLM) and its
Bureau Exécutif National (the National Executive Bureau)
(BEN) marked a major turning point, as did an increase in
annual budget allocations to nutrition (from US$0.3 million
in 2002 to US$5.7 million in 2015) and concomitant
intensification of community-based nutrition interventions.
This commitment is reflected in the improvement of nutrition
indicators. With a 46 percent reduction in under-five
stunting, from 34.4 percent in 1992 to 19.4 percent in 2014,
Senegal has witnessed one of the biggest rates of
improvement in the fight against undernutrition in the world
and currently has one of the lowest rates of stunting in
Sub-Saharan Africa (Spray 2018). However, these developments
have not led to greater visibility of pronutrition
interventions in relevant sectors such as agriculture,
livestock, health, education, social protection, and
hydraulics. Moreover, some nutrition-specific problems with
major consequences—low birthweight, iron-deficiency anemia,
adolescent nutrition, and maternal undernutrition—still
receive little attention. These shortcomings threaten the
gains achieved in recent decades. Recognizing the challenge,
the government of Senegal joined the SUN Movement in 2011
and adopted the United Nations REACH approach in 2014. Both
initiatives aim to strengthen institutional capacity and
facilitate a multisectoral process to help governmentsplan,
prioritize and more efficiently manage nutrition actions
involving multiple stakeholders. With respect to national
policy, the Document de Politique National de Développement
de la Nutrition (National Policy for the Development of
Nutrition) (PNDN) has been adopted for the period 2015 to
2025. The PNDN will be operationalized through a
multisectoral nutrition strategy, the Plan Stratégique
Multisectoriel de la Nutrition (Multisectoral Nutrition
Strategic Plan) (PSMN). The PSMN is designed as a sectoral
reform program to broaden coverage and improve the quality
of nutrition services.Against this background, this
institutional and organizational capacity assessment (IOCA)
analyzes the performance of Senegal’s nutrition sector and
makes 8 Analysis & Perspective: 15 Years of Experience
in the Development of Nutrition Policy in Senegal
recommendations for strengthening implementation of the PNDN
and forthcoming PSMN. |
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