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Nutrition on LIFELINE

This video is about Child Malnutrition in Nigeria as discussed on LIFELINE.
LIFELINE is a health support programme which currently airs on DASAMAL TV Network, Nigeria. (Channel 118 on the Startimes Decoder)

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Initiative for Food and Nutrition Security in Africa (IFNA) debuts

... Cohosted by the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)

1. Background

Recalling the Malabo Declaration and Sustainable Development Goal 2 that aspire to end hunger and improve the nutrition status in the world and particularly in Africa, JICA is pleased to propose that a new framework be established, called "Initiative for Food and Nutrition Security in Africa (IFNA)" to accelerate the international efforts to alleviate hunger and malnutrition on the African continent.
     IFNA emphasizes the importance of several specific values. It focuses on facilitating people-centered and practical activities, through empowerment of women, as well as action-oriented policy enhancement, in order to achieve inclusive nutritional improvement with an impact. It also underscores synergistic outcomes among multi-sectorial activities such as agriculture, health, education, and private sectors. In addition, it stresses the importance of an evidence-based approach to support policymakers to make decisions based on proper monitoring and evaluation. Lastly, it also emphasizes an appropriate coordination between short-term humanitarian interventions and mid/long-term development interventions in order to enhance sustainability and resilience of communities in the African region.

2. Objectives

To serve as the launch of a new initiative for Food and Nutrition Security in Africa (IFNA), at the same time, to consider how international community can accelerate efforts to alleviate hunger and malnutrition on the African continent.

3. Key Questions

■ How can international community help to accelerate efforts in order to alleviate hunger and malnutrition in the African Continent?
■ What kinds of interventions would be effective to achieve that?
■ How can stakeholders cooperate each other to achieve that?

Aisha Buhari gets involved in malnutrition matters

On 21 July 2016, Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, wife of the President of Federal Republic of Nigeria launched the “GET INVOLVED” programme to help end preventable maternal, new born and child deaths. 

The programme is part of the Future Assured project designed to provide solutions to problems of malnutrition among children in the country.

As an advocacy champion, the First Lady aims to contribute to the acceleration of efforts to End Preventable Maternal, New born and Child deaths through advocacy and the strengthening of accountability mechanisms in order to enhance the peace and development of Nigeria.

The “GET INVOLVED” quick interventionist programme focuses on preventing annual death of thousands of malnourished Nigerian children living in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in the country. 

It envisages the active participation of civil society, private sector and non-governmental organizations in response to the alarming outbreak of malnutrition in the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps.

More information on:  GET INVOLVED programme

More information on Future Assured project: http://futureassured.org.ng/

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A communiqué issued at the end of a two-day Media Dialogue on Child Malnutrition organized by UNICEF in partnership with the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture for media practitioners, nutritionists and other stakeholders in Nigeria, held at the De Legend Hotel, Owerri, Imo State from July 13 to July 15, 2016.

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Poverty, illiteracy, early deaths await world’s most disadvantaged children says UNICEF

Press Release:

NEW YORK, 28 June 2016 – Based on current trends, 69 million children under five will die from mostly preventable causes, 167 million children will live in poverty, and 750 million women will have been married as children by 2030, the target date for the Sustainable Development Goals – unless the world focuses more on the plight of its most disadvantaged children, according to a UNICEF report released today.

The State of the World’s Children, UNICEF’s annual flagship report, paints a stark picture of what is in store for the world’s poorest children if governments, donors, businesses and international organizations do not accelerate efforts to address their needs.

“Denying hundreds of millions of children a fair chance in life does more than threaten their futures – by fueling intergenerational cycles of disadvantage, it imperils the future of their societies,” said UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake. “We have a choice: Invest in these children now or allow our world to become still more unequal and divided.”

The report notes that significant progress has been made in saving children’s lives, getting children into school and lifting people out of poverty. Global under-five mortality rates have been more than halved since 1990, boys and girls attend primary school in equal numbers in 129 countries, and the number of people living in extreme poverty worldwide is almost half what it was in the 1990s. 

But this progress has been neither even nor fair, the report says. The poorest children are twice as likely to die before their fifth birthday and to be chronically malnourished than the richest. Across much of South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, children born to mothers with no education are almost 3 times more likely to die before they are 5 than those born to mothers with a secondary education. And girls from the poorest households are twice as likely to marry as children than girls from the wealthiest households.

Nowhere is the outlook grimmer than in sub-Saharan Africa, where at least 247 million children – or 2 in 3 – live in multidimensional poverty, deprived of what they need to survive and develop, and where nearly 60 per cent of 20- to 24-year-olds from the poorest fifth of the population have had less than four years of schooling. At current trends, the report projects, by 2030, sub-Saharan Africa will account for:

·         Nearly half of the 69 million children who will die before their fifth birthday from mostly preventable causes;

·         More than half of the 60 million children of primary school age who will still be out of school; and

·         9 out of 10 children living in extreme poverty. 

Although education plays a unique role in levelling the playing field for children, the number of children who do not attend school has increased since 2011, and a significant proportion of those who do go to school are not learning. About 124 million children today do not go to primary- and lower-secondary school, and almost 2 in 5 who do finish primary school have not learned how to read, write or do simple arithmetic. 

The report points to evidence that investing in the most vulnerable children can yield immediate and long-term benefits. Cash transfers, for example, have been shown to help children stay in school longer and advance to higher levels of education. On average, each additional year of education a child receives increases his or her adult earnings by about 10 per cent. And for each additional year of schooling completed, on average, by young adults in a country, that country’s poverty rates fall by 9 per cent.  

Inequity is neither inevitable, nor insurmountable, the report argues. Better data on the most vulnerable children, integrated solutions to the challenges children face, innovative ways to address old problems, more equitable investment and increased involvement by communities – all these measures can help level the playing field for children.

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