National Nutrition Strategic Plan 2014-2025.

This National Nutrition Strategic Plan is a nationwide sectoral document aiming at outlining the strategies that will be used in Sudan to provide basic nutrition services for the treatment and prevention of malnutrition (both under-nutrition and overnutrition) and to address its underlying causes. All this, according to the local situation and resources and respecting the Global Nutrition targets endorsed by international resolutions and by the Millennium Development Goals. Furthermore, it considers necessary to strengthen existing systems and provision of primary health care services to mitigate nutrition deficiencies. To achieve the aforementioned main golas, the Plan sets out a number of strategic objectives, as follows (i) create a supportive environment (including political commitment and multi-sectoral coordination) and enhance nutrition assessment, monitoring and evaluation; (ii) promote malnutrition management; (iii) prevent malnutrition through improving infant and young child feeding practices and services and increase micronutrient uptake; (iv) build capacity for emergency preparedness in nutrition; and (v) enhance community based interventions insuring good nutrition to all age group focussing on women and children and obesity prevention.
To help eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition, the Strategic Plan aims to (i) improve of exclusive breast feeding and complementary feeding time, quantity and quality; (ii) promote maternal and child nutrition through improve up take of the essential micro nutrients; (iii) develop pre-school and school nutrition programs; (iv) increase coverage of existing nutrition services in emergency situations with support to vulnerable groups; and (v) promote and invest on small scale and home based agricultural activities (agriculture and fisheries, food processing, marketing and distribution) focusing of needy areas.
In order to enable more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems, main suggested interventions are (i) promotion of nutritional knowledge and appropriate attitudes and practices of caregivers towards food, social and dietary customs, family/child care and feeding practices as well as household hygiene; and (ii) promotion of consumption of diversified local food.
As for the Governance, the implementation of this strategic plan will be through partnership-based action with Federal, state, local authorities, communities, NGOs, private sector, civil societies and development and humanitarian actors. In this context, the Government structures are having the responsibilities to lead and promote the implementation process within their institutes as part of a respective government development plan and priorities, where the Ministry of Health will take the lead in lobbying and advocacy between line ministries.