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The National Institute of Nutrition is in charge of nutrition activities at the central level, together with the Preventive Medicine Department and Maternal and Child Health Department of the Ministry of Health. At the subnational level, nutrition is assigned to the provincial centres for disease control, district health centres and community health clubs. At the grass-roots level, village health workers implement community nutrition activities. All stakeholders support the Government with implementing nutrition interventions.

The Government approved the National Nutrition Strategy 2021–2030 and assigned tasks to different stakeholders. Other international agencies and civil society organizations in the MSP generally support the Common Results Framework. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and SUN Civil Society Alliance have greatly contributed to supporting the Government in accelerating nutrition progress, especially the development of the National Nutrition Strategy, the Government’s Nutrition for Growth (N4G) commitment, nutrition within the food system and nutrition in emergencies (e.g. natural disasters, the COVID-19 pandemic).

The Prime Minister has developed and ratified the National Nutrition Strategy 2021–2030 and vision to 2045 to address the country’s triple burden of malnutrition, based on a situation analysis and global targets. The strategy prioritizes vulnerable groups, emphasizes the importance of governance and multisectoral coordination at the central and subnational levels and for the first time has set up a budgetary indicator to cover nutrition interventions. MSPs are aligned with the Government to provide support.