Somalia Multisectoral Nutrition Strategy 2019-2024.

The Somalia Multisectoral Nutrition (MSN) Strategy 2019-2024 extends beyond the health sector by consolidating and integrating various policy instruments of the Somalia government that seek to tackle under nutrition. The goal of MSN Strategy is to reduce malnutrition through direct Mother and Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN) interventions and indirectly through nutrition-sensitive interventions that reduce poverty and food insecurity.
The MSN is organized in eight chapters as follows: Chapter 1 which is the introduction, includes the background, political and economic context under which the MSN Strategy is anchored, the review of the first Somali Nutrition Strategy (MoH-SNS; 2011-2013). Chapter 2 presents situation analysis. Chapter 3 encompasses priorities for MSN strategies including rationale for multisectoral approach, expected results and key result areas strategies, and conceptual framework. Chapter 4 examines the implementation challenges. Chapter 5 provides for Strategy governance, including coordination mechanisms, agencies and accountability, among others. Chapter 6 describes operational approaches. Chapter 7 considers capacity development and assessment. Chapter 8 presents monitoring and evaluation.
The MSN envisions the following seven strategic objectives: 1) To create an enabling policy and legal environment necessary for improvement of nutrition outcomes across all the sectors both at national and sub national level; 2) To create, strengthen and sustain sectoral and Multi-Sectoral Nutrition coordination mechanisms at national and sub-national levels; 3) To improve and strengthen human resource capacity for providing appropriate support to maternal and child nutrition at national and sub-national levels; 4) To develop and integrate a full package of nutrition-specific interventions into basic health care services at national and sub-national levels; 5) To improve policy and practises that enhance maternal and child nutritional status through optimal use of nutrition-sensitive services; 6) To address gender and social-cultural factors that hinder improvement of maternal, infant, and young child nutrition at national and sub national level; 7) To strengthen organisational, institutional and policy framework for linking humanitarian relief, to recovery and development towards to nutrition improvement at national and sub national level.