Project report
Aiming high : Indonesia's ambition to reduce stunting (Vol. 1 of 2) : main report
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Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-sonnet-5-5This report looks at Indonesia's plan to reduce stunting, the National Strategy to Accelerate Stunting Prevention (StraNas Stunting) 2017-2021, launched in August 2017. It describes what would be needed to turn the strategy into practice, including a coordinated effort across sectors in communities nationwide. It also reviews past successes and setbacks in reducing malnutrition, such as the village-level Posyandu health posts begun in the 1980s, and draws lessons for the future. The authors express optimism that Indonesia is on a path towards success at scale.
Key points
- Indonesia began village-level nutrition programming and surveillance in the 1980s using Posyandu integrated weighing and child health posts.
- Past decades brought successes in reducing malnutrition through small and larger scale interventions.
- There were also setbacks, including loss of attention, competing priorities, decentralization, weak management and poor governance.
- The government unveiled the National Strategy to Accelerate Stunting Prevention (StraNas Stunting) 2017-2021 in August 2017.
- The strategy includes plans to raise awareness of the economic, social and personal cost of stunting and to coordinate a multi-sectoral effort at scale.
Limitations
Only the abstract is available, so it gives no data, stunting figures or methods. It cannot show how well the strategy or earlier programmes actually worked.
Abstract
In the 1980's Indonesia became an example for other countries concerned with reducing high levels of malnutrition. At the time, Indonesia had started nutrition programming and surveillance at the village level using the integrated weighing and child health posts, or Posyandu. In the ensuing decades there have been successes: small scale and bigger scale interventions that reduced malnutrition. At the same time, there have been set-backs, loss of attention, other priorities, decentralization, weak management and poor governance. In August 2017, the Indonesian government unveiled a new strategy to accelerate reductions in rates of stunting. This book looks at what will be required to turn that strategy - the National Strategy to Accelerate Stunting Prevention (StraNas Stunting) 2017-2021 – from vision into reality. It looks at the country's ambitious reforms and goals to reduce stunting. It examines the government's plans to boost awareness about the economic, social and personal cost of stunting, to ensure a truly national "multi-sectoral" effort to tackle the problem at scale in a coordinated and cohesive fashion in communities across Indonesia. It chronicles past successes and setbacks, drawing lessons from them about the future. We think Indonesia is on a path towards new success: this time at scale. It is a story worthtelling. (Indonesia)