National Strategic Plan of Action for Nutrition (NSPAN II) (2021-2025).

This National Strategic Plan of Action on Nutrition (NSPAN II), covering the period 2021-2025, provides for the revision of the first version of the Plan (2014-2019), concerns the inclusion of nutrition into the emergency issues and addressing the entire life course, with the vision of a nation with optimal nutrition for all the citizens, improving their well-being, the human and economic development. Therefore, this NSPAN II, in compliance with other Policies and governmental strategies, focuses on eight areas of intervention, including: maternal, infant and young child nutrition, school age, adolescent and the elderly nutrition, integrated management of moderate and acute malnutrition in children aged 6- 59 months, micronutrient deficiency control, diet related non-communicable diseases, nutrition information systems, nutrition in emergency, nutrition logistics commodities management systems. What is more, the Strategic Plan of Action develops two cross-cutting issues: nutrition and human rights, in order to promote the citizens’ rights to adequate food, health, and care; nutrition and gender, in order to address the linkage between gender inequalities and malnutrition.
Concerning targeted actions and measures for each specific area of intervention, the Strategic Plan provides for: promoting optimal breastfeeding practices for infants; strengthening monitoring and evaluation, innovation, research and learning for maternal, infant and young child nutrition; strengthening health system capacities and public health interventions, in order to improve dietary intake of micronutrients, using various food such as wheat and maize flour, vegetable oil, sugar, and salt; incorporation of food and nutrition activities into the school health programmes.