This Kenya Nutrition Action Plan (KNAP) 2018–2022 is an evidence-based five-year strategic action plan that applies a multi-sectoral approach and promotes cross sectoral collaboration to address the social determinants of malnutrition sustainably with an overall aim of ensuring ‘Optimal Nutrition for All Kenyans, considering that high levels of malnutrition remain a public health concern and a hindrance to achieving the country’s developmental agenda and that the Constitution guarantees the right to food and adequate nutrition and the universal right to food and nutritional health. The Plan is mainly addressed towards policy makers, planners, nutrition managers and officers at all levels, academia, development partners, donors, Non Government Organisations (NGOs), civil society organisations (CSOs) and the private sector. The Plan is subdivided into three categories of result areas with corresponding interventions: Nutrition specific; multi-sectoral nutrition sensitive; enabling environment. This Plan is structured as follows: 1) Introduction, including: National Policy and Legal Frameworks; Kenya Nutrition Action Plan Development Process; Review and challenges in implementation of NNAP 2012-2017; Development of KNAP 2018-2022. 2) Kenya Nutrition Situation Analysis, including: global context and regional trends; trends in undernutrition, overweight, obesity and diet related non-communicable diseases, micronutrients deficiencies, feeding practices, access to food, care and health services; mortality and morbidity trends; nutrition actions in the national development context. 3) The Kenya Nutrition Action Plan Design Framework, including: rationale; theory of charge; vision, mission and guiding principles; objective of the Plan; key strategies. 4) Key result areas, with corresponding outcomes, outputs, strategies and activities. 5) Costed Action Plans of the KNAP, including: context; costing approach; resource needs for implementing the Plan; funding opportunities; 6) Monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning. 7) Legal and institutional framework for the Plan. 8) Risk assessment, analysis and mitigation. This Action Plan is based on three rationales: (a) health consequences: improved nutrition status leads to a healthier population and enhanced quality of life; (b) economic consequences: improved nutrition and health is the foundation for rapid economic growth; and c) optimal nutrition is a human right. The mission of the Plan aims at reducing all forms of malnutrition in the country, using well-coordinated multi-sectoral and community-centred approaches for optimal health of population and economic growth of the country. Therefore, in order to be implemented, the Plan defines the following key areas, including: maternal, infant, young child and adolescents nutrition; nutrition status of adults and older persons, prevention, control and management of diet related non-communicable diseases, nutrition in emergencies, clinical nutrition and dietetics practice, nutrition in agriculture, nutrition in the health and education sectors, nutrition, water sanitation and hygiene, nutrition in social protection programmes, strengthening of supply chain management for nutrition commodities and equipment. The Plan’s implementation is achieved through the following activities and interventions: promotion of breastfeeding spaces at work places; dissemination of nutrition policies; food-based dietary guidelines; integration of play and nutrition activities in schools; establishment of various food production (crops, livestock, insects and fisheries); regulation of food environment to control marketing and distribution of unhealthy foods within the schools; creation of a centralised data bank of existing research and programmes on nutrition; assessment on nutritional and health needs; strengthening of food security and nutrition systems; increased production, preservation and consumption of micronutrient-rich foods; integrate risk reduction and mitigation; conduct, review and disseminate early warning surveys; establishment of food safety inspection committees; support dissemination of the agri-nutrition resource manual; provision of adequate potable water and safe storage within households, health facilities and schools; protection of water sources and regular water treatment quality checks; enhancing safe and hygienic practices during food preparation and storage; strengthening partnerships including public–private partnership to mobilise resources for nutrition.
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