Experience On Nutrient Focus Approach in Ethiopia

Experience on Nutrient Focus
Approach in Ethiopia
Outline of the presentation
Historical Journey of Nutrition Policy environment in
Ethiopia
National Development Plan
Food and Nutrition Strategy of Ethiopia
Food and Nutrition Strategy Costing
Nutrient Focused Approach
UNICEF Nutrition Policy & Advocacy in Ethiopia 1

Historical Journey of Nutrition Policy Environment in Ethiopia
Joined Global Scaling Up Ten- year Costed
Nutrition Movement Food and
Nutrition Seqota Food and
Strategy Declaration Nutrition Policy Nutrition Staretgy
2004 2007 2008 2010 2011 2015 2016 2018 2020 2021
Mandatory Salt iodization Ten-year National

Community Development Plan
IYCF Strategy legislation, 2011
Based Nutrition
National Nutrition program I Improvements of nutrition
National Nutrition
policy environment in Ethiopia
program II
Sectors involved in Food and Nutrition policy and Strategy
• Ministry of Health • Ethiopia Agriculture Research Institute
• Ministry of Agriculture • Ethiopia Public Health Institute
• Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy • Ethiopia Food and Drug Administration
• Ministry of Labor and Social Affair • National Disaster Risk Management Com
• Ministry of Finance • Ministry of Trade and Industry
National Development Plan (2021- 2030),
1. Social Sector
– Human Capital Development
• Reduction of stunting among under five children from 37 to 13%
• Reduction of wasting among under five children from 7 to 3%
• Increase basic secondary school particpation from 25.3% to 75% in both sex
– Social Protection Services

• Support 15 million children with social protection services
2. Agriculture
– Increase large scale horticulture production
– Increase small scale irrigation production of horticulture
– Increase annual milk production
– Increase egg production from
– Increase fish production
3. Infrastructure
• Water
– Increase safe water coverage in rural setting from 54.8 - 100% in 1 km radius
– Climate resilient multi village water source for repeatedly drought affected woredas
– Ensure water and sanitation access to all health institutions and schools
Food and Nutrition Strategy of Ethiopia (2021-2030)
Improve availability, Accessibility and Utilization of nutritious foods
Ensure the safety and quality of foods from farm-to-table
Improve Postharvest Management throughout the food value chain
Improve nutritional status throughout the life cycle
Improve the nutritional status of people with communicable, non-communicable and lifestyle-
related diseases
Manage emergencies
:Improve water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)
:Improve the nutrition literacy
Create a functional governance body
Improve sustainable and adequate financing
Build the institutional capacities
Enhance evidence informed decision-making
Ensure effective food and nutrition communication
Nutrition Policy & Advocacy in Ethiopia 6

Food and Nutrition Strategy Costing
Strategic Objectives Total cost %
SO 1 Improve availability of nutritious foods 12,739,790,381 12.7%
SO 2 Food safety and quality system. 3,530,142,033 3.5%
SO 3 post-harvest management 656,395,024 0.7%
SO 4 Improve nutritional status throughout the life cycle 17,871,155,598 17.9%

Improve the nutritional status of people with
communicable, non-communicable and lifestyle- 25,585,679,432 25.6%
SO 5 related diseases.
SO 6 Food and nutrition emergencies response 10,686,710,654 10.7%
24,898,597,628
SO 7 Improve water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) 24.9%
SO 8 Improve the nutrition literacy 1,233,868,800 1.2%
SO 9 Create a functional governance body 203,051,337 0.2%
SO 10 Improve sustainable and adequate financing 169,868,300 0.2%

SO 11 Build the institutional capacities of sectors 1,478,514,400 1.5%
SO 12 Evidence informed decision-making, learning 329,261,759 0.3%

SO 13 Food and nutrition communication 621,463,600 0.6%
100,004,498,946
Nutrient Focused Approach and its smart
phone-based application
• Nutrient Focused Approach (NFA) is a food-based nutrition
improvement approach that promotes healthy and balanced diet
through dietary diversification, focusing more on supply and
consumption of the specific nutrients that correspond to key
nutrition issues, such as stunting, anemia etc.
• The idea of NFA was developed along with the Initiative for Food and
Nutrition Security in Africa (IFNA) that JICA and AUDA-NEPAD
initiated in 2016.
NFA Experience in Ethiopia
• With collaboration with IFAN, JICA and UNICEF Ethiopia Smart phone
based NFA software is developed that work online and offline mode
• The smart –phone based software is developed for the context of
Ethiopia ( using Ethiopia food composition table ) to be implemented
at federal, regional , district and Village level by extension workers
• Developed to contribute to the Food and nutrition policy and strategy
(2021-2030)
• The training is planned in cascades
• Master TOT by experts from IFNA at Addis Ababa to high level nutrition
experts from NGOs, Universities ,UNICEF
• Those MTOT will give training to experts at Regional and district level to cover
159 experts from Agriculture and health sectors
• will be implemented in country in phases
• JOINTLY will be implemented by (IFNA, JICA, UNICEF , MOA, MOH)

Master TOT
institution Addis Ababa somali Oromia SNNPR Sidma B/G Gambelle Total
MOA/bureau 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 10
MOH/bureau 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 10
Consultant (NGO/University) 6 6
Unicef 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7
Total 33
ToT District BoA BoH total
Somali 8 1 1 16
Oromia 25 1 1 50
Snnpr 12 1 1 24
Sidma 5 1 1 10
B/G 9 1 1 18
Gambella 4 1 1 8
63 126
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Experience on Nutrient Focus

Food and Nutrition Strategy of Ethiopia

Food and Nutrition Strategy Costing

Nutrient Focused Approach

UNICEF Nutrition Policy & Advocacy in Ethiopia 1

Mandatory Salt iodization Ten-year National

– Social Protection Services

Ensure the safety and quality of foods from farm-to-table

Improve Postharvest Management throughout the food value chain

Improve nutritional status throughout the life cycle

:Improve water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)

:Improve the nutrition literacy

Create a functional governance body

Improve sustainable and adequate financing

Build the institutional capacities

Enhance evidence informed decision-making

Ensure effective food and nutrition communication

Nutrition Policy & Advocacy in Ethiopia 6

SO 4 Improve nutritional status throughout the life cycle 17,871,155,598 17.9%

SO 10 Improve sustainable and adequate financing 169,868,300 0.2%

SO 12 Evidence informed decision-making, learning 329,261,759 0.3%

• JOINTLY will be implemented by (IFNA, JICA, UNICEF , MOA, MOH)

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