Uganda Nutrition Action Plan II

The Uganda Nutrition Action Plan II is a national multisectoral plan of Uganda for the period 2020/21-2024-25. Its vision is a well-nourished, healthy and productive population effectively participating in the socio-economic transformation of Uganda.
In this vision, the Plan's goal is to improve the nutrition status among children under five years, school-age children, adolescents, pregnant and lactating women and other vulnerable groups by 2025.
The ‘UNAP II’ objectives are based on a holistic approach to nutrition, taking into account all-encompassing global contemporary trends and demands. These include SUN, 2030 Agenda and SDGs, as well as the Vision 2040 aspirations operationalized in the ‘NDP III’. The focus areas are nutrition specific, nutrition sensitive and enabling environment. The spirit of the objectives is to uphold a multi-sectoral approach to nutrition. Over the period 2020-2025, ‘UNAP II’ seeks: objective 1 - To increase access to and utilization of nutrition-specific services by children under five years of age, school-age children, adolescents, pregnant and lactating women and other vulnerable groups; objective 2 - To increase access to and utilization of nutrition-sensitive services by children under five years, school-age children, adolescents, pregnant and lactating women and other vulnerable groups; objective 3 - to strengthen the enabling environment for scaling up nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive services.
For each objective the Plan sets a number of strategies and details the priority actios to be taken in order to realize them.
The following principles will be applied for the implementation of the Plan: Ensuring community participation; strengthening community-based nutrition programming; Strengthening effective coordination mechanism in line with ‘NDP III’ planning framework; Deliberate targeting for vulnerable population groups and regions with the highest number and prevalence of malnutrition; Improving nutrition knowledge and skills
The National Nutrition Forum (NNF) is the apex tier of engagement on nutrition by all stakeholders. Every two and a half years, the NNF is covenanted by the Right Honourable Prime Minister to take stock of the implementation of the halfway period for the UNAP. The NNF brings together all heads of government departments and agencies, ambassadors, development partners, the private sector, civil society organizations and academia under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister. The NNF event is preceded by a technical review meeting that focuses on reviewing the progress in implementing the ‘Uganda Nutrition Action Plan’.
Developing a plan for resource mobilization and tracking has been included as a critical activity in the ‘UNAP II’ implementation roadmap. The estimated costs of implementing ‘UNAP II’ actions and the ongoing nutrition expenditure review will provide crucial information for the development of ‘UNAP II’ resource mobilization and tracking plan. The plan will ensure systematic and sustained financin