SUN Lead Group Member
Dr. Nina Sardjunani
SUN Lead Group member, Dr. Nina Sardjunani, Deputy Minister for Human Resources Development and Cultural Affairs, Ministry of National Development Planning, discusses progress and opportunities for the future of her country through Scaling Up Nutrition
Demonstrating a multi-stakeholder commitment to scaling up nutrition, Indonesia’s ‘First 1,000 Days of Life Movement’ was launched by four government ministers – the Coordinating Minister of People’s Welfare, the Minister of Development and Planning, Minister of Health and Minister of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection – together with members of the SUN platforms.
In Indonesia, a central multi-stakeholder, multi-sectoral coordinating SUN Forum is supported by several other coordinating platforms that have been established across key constituencies including government and development partners, non-governmental organizations, professional associations, the business community and media.
The objectives of the ‘First 1,000 Days of Life Movement’ have been cemented in an official policy framework that mirrors the five global nutrition targets that were endorsed at the 2012 World Health Assembly. The targets cover chronic and acute malnutrition, anemia, low-birth weight, exclusive breastfeeding and obesity.
The National Food and Nutrition Action Plan serves as the common results framework for addressing nutrition. This framework, which is valid from 2011 to 2015, is complemented by community-based nutrition programs, fortification schemes and nutrition-sensitive social protection programs.
Total funding allocated to nutrition at the central level to the Department of Health within the Ministry of Health is 70 million USD per year. Each of the 33 provinces and 497 districts has their own separate resources, in addition to this central government budget.
