Project report
Nutrition Financing in Senegal
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Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-sonnet-5-5This report describes how Senegal funds and organises its nutrition work. The government has raised its nutrition budget and expanded community-based nutrition services, and under-five stunting fell by 46 percent between 1992 and 2014. However, nutrition-focused work in other sectors such as agriculture, education, social protection and health has stayed less visible, and approaches have become fragmented. The report describes a national policy for 2015 to 2025 and a multisectoral plan intended to address these gaps.
Key points
- Annual budget allocations to nutrition rose from $0.3 million in 2002 to $5.7 million in 2015.
- Under-five stunting fell by 46 percent from 1992 to 2014.
- Progress in reducing stunting has slowed.
- Low birthweight, iron-deficiency anemia, adolescent undernutrition and maternal undernutrition have received little attention.
- Senegal joined the SUN Movement in 2011, adopted REACH in 2014, and adopted the national nutrition policy (PNDN) for 2015 to 2025.
Limitations
Only a short abstract-level text is available, so it gives no detail on how funds were spent or on how well the policies work. It does not evaluate a specific intervention, and it does not show that the budget increase caused the stunting reduction.
Abstract
Senegal is known for having one of the most effective and far-reaching nutrition service delivery systems in Africa. Government commitment to improving the nutritional status of the population has increased over time and has been marked, among other things, by the creation in 2001 of the CLM and its Bureau Exécutif National (National Executive Bureau) (BEN); an increase in annual budget allocations to nutrition (from $0.3 million in 2002 to $5.7 million in 2015); and intensificationof community-based nutrition interventions. These commitments are reflected in the improvementof nutrition indicators, notably a 46 percent reduction in under-five stunting from 1992 to 2014.Unfortunately, these improvements have not led to greater visibility of nutrition sensitive interventions in relevant sectors such as agriculture, livestock, education, social protection and health. This shortfall, combined with a recent series of exogenous shocks, has led to recurrent fragmentation of nutrition approaches, paradigms and interventions, resulting in the absence ofa general framework that provides guidance on both nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive investments.Meanwhile, progress in reducing stunting has slowed,and low birthweight, iron-deficiency anemia, adolescent undernutrition, and maternal undernutrition have received little attention. These shortcomings threaten the achievements of recent decades. Recognizing this challenge, the government of Senegal joined the Mouvement pour le Renforcement de la Nutrition (Scaling Up Nutrition) SUN Movement in 2011 and adopted the United Nations Approach to Renewed Efforts Against Child Hunger and Undernutrition (REACH) in 2014. These initiatives aim to strengthen institutional capacity and facilitate a multisectoral process to help governments plan, prioritize and more efficiently manage nutrition actions involving multiple stakeholders. With respect to national policy, the government of Senegal has adopted the Politique Nationale de Développement de la Nutrition (National Policy for the Development of Nutrition)(PNDN)2 covering the period 2015 to 2025, which will be operationalized through a multisectoral nutrition strategy, outlined in the Plan Stratégique Multisectoriel de la Nutrition (Multisectoral Nutrition Strategic Plan) (PSNM). These policies aim to expand coverage and improve the quality of nutrition services in sectors whose functional prerogatives affect the prevention and management of malnutrition. (Senegal)