The UNAP serves as the multi-sectoral common results framework for nutrition. Its implementation is ongoing with involvement of the ministries of education, agriculture, health, trade and industry, gender, community and social development, local government and finance. Uganda has prioritised improving the role of District Nutrition Coordination Committees in implementing the UNAP.
The UNAP monitoring and evaluation framework is being developed and a budgetary framework is being prepared with support from the World Bank. Under the UNAP, Uganda aims to transform the lives of children and women of child bearing age because the life chances of many children are being damaged as a result of poor nutrition in their first 1,000 days between pregnancy and the child’s second birthday.
A Nutrition Advocacy Strategy has been developed and has been combined with a Behavioral Change Communication Strategy as well as a Social Mobilisation Strategy to form a complete National Communication Strategy for Nutrition.
Last updated: October 2015
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