National Plan of Action on Nutrition 2010 – 2015.

The present National Plan of Action on Nutrition (NPAN) is based on the National Nutrition Strategy (NNS). It is structured in line with the strategic framework which envisages 3 Strategic Directions: address immediate causes; address underlying causes and address basic causes. The specific objective of this Plan of Action is to provide a detailed overview of which interventions should be implemented by whom until when. Interventions within this document constitute not only the delivery of nutrition and food security services via a certain delivery channel to a beneficiary, but also more fundamental tasks such as formulating a legislation or developing an information system. The Plan stops at the intervention level and does not detail individual activities. Thus, it can be regarded as a “plan for a plan” and the starting point for annual operational plans of the implementing stakeholders. Chapter 2 forms the core component of the Plan. It consists of ten logframes, one for every strategic objective. Each logframe provides a detailed overview of the planned action areas and interventions.
Chapter three presents the implementation roadmap and organizational structure for implementation. The Plan is a compilation of the most relevant nutrition and food security interventions for Lao PDR. All of its interventions can be regarded as vital towards eliminating malnutrition and food insecurity in Lao and hence it should be aspired to implement all of these interventions as fast as possible. However, in the presence of financial and non-financial constraints, some interventions have been identified as particularly crucial for a fast impact on the overall goal indicators. In a consultative process among all key stakeholders, the interventions were prioritized as outlined in Figure 3. As far as the organizational structure is concerned, it is emphasized that the working and governance structure in the field of nutrition and food security is currently being developed by an Interim Coordination Task Force and will be added to this Plan once the process is finalized.
Chapter four elaborates on the monitoring and evaluation of the implementation as well as of the input, output, and impact. Finally, chapter five explains the resource generation and mobilization plan. The text consists of 5 Chapters as follows: Introduction (1); Plan of Action (2); Implementation Roadmap and organizational Structure (3); Monitoring and Evaluation (4); Resource Mobilization (5).