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The Seqota Declaration: Innovative Government of Ethiopia Commitment to end stunting in 2030
Progress Update, Challenges and Lessons
July 11, 2019
Dr. Sisay Sinamo
Senior Program Manager
Federal Program Delivery Unit
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The Seqota Declaration
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The Seqota Declaration is a government commitment to end stunting in
Ethiopia among children under 2 years by 2030.
The Seqota Declaration builds on and accelerates the implementation
of National Nutrition Program II (i.e. NNP II) and implemented by
poverty focused and selected NNP implementing sectors in three
phases.
Vision To see Ethiopia’s children being free from under nutrition
Goal To end stunting in children under 2 years by 2030.
Multi-sector coordination is a complex and addressing the coordination issues
requires diverse approaches at multiple level.
The Seqota Declaration
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The Seqota Declaration
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15 years implementation strategy (road map)
with defined innovations
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1. Developing clear goal, targets and
implementation (road) map
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Region Woredas Total
population
Total
households
Total
under two
PLWs Stunting
prevalence
Amhara 27 3,202,486 762,497 165,019 108,323 49.7%
Tigray 13 807,671 192,303 53,306 27,461 46.6%
Total 40 4,010,157 192,303 218,325 135,784 48%
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2. Partners mapping allows participation
of all stakeholders Federal Ministries
1. Health
2. Agriculture and Livestock Resources
3. Water, Irrigation and Electricity
4. Education
5. MOLSA
6. Women, Youth and Children Affairs
7. Environment, Forestry and Climate Change
Regional Sector Bureaus, Zonal and woreda
offices
1. Health
2. Agriculture and Natural Resources
3. Livestock and Fishery
4. Water, Irrigation and Electricity
5. Education
6. BOLSA
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• ACF
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Concern World Wide
• Care Ethiopia
• DFID
• Embassy of France
• EU
• FAO
• FH Ethiopia
• FHI 360, Alive and Thrive
•GIZ•GAIN •Irish Aid•Nutrition International •Organization for Sustainable Development •SCI (GTN/INSPIRE) •UNICEF•USAID•WFP •WHO •World Bank •World Vision Ethiopia
Donors and Implementing Partners
•A4NH/FPRI•Danish Aid Church• REST•TDA•ORDA
Universities• Axum• Debre Tabor • Gondar • Mekele
Federal Sector Ministries and Regional Bureaus
3. Clearly defined mandates and contributions
from other sectors and with in the sector
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Improved health and nutrition status
of adolescents, women and
children under two
100% access to food all year round
Transform smallholders productivity and income
Zero Post-harvest food loss
Enhance innovation around promotion of sustainable food
systems (climate smart)
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Improved Nutritional status of school children
Universal access to water supply sanitation and
hygiene
Improved nutrition status of pregnant and lactating
women and children through PSNP interventions
Improved gender equity, women empowerment
and child protection
Improved multi-sectoral coordination and
governance
4. Leadership commitment and functional
coordination mechanism at all level
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President, Amhara Region President, Tigray Region
Federal Program Delivery Unit
Amhara PDU
Zonal and Woreda
Coordinators
Tigray PDU
Zonal and Woreda Level Coordinators
5. Community participation, ownership and
creating a system to strengthening grass-root
structures
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7. Execution, sustainability
and expansion
6. Prototyping
5. Reflection
4. Learning Journey
2. Multi-stakeholder Platform
1. Situation Analysis
3. Deciding where to visit
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6. Accountability. Performance management
and feedback for Implementers
Implementing
sector or
partner
Plan versus
Accomplishment
(50)
Participation in
key events (10)
Plan & Report
completeness and
timeliness (15)
Assignment and
functionality of
Focal person (10)
Budget
allocation (15)
Over all Summary
(100)
Federal 1 0 5 2 5 10 22
Federal 2 25 10 14 8 10 66
Federal 3 36 5 14 8 10 72
Federal 4 17 5 14 8 10 53
Federal 5 24 5 14 5 15 63
Federal 6 20 5 11 8 10 54
Partner 1 19 5 13 10 15 62
Partner 2 42 5 14 10 15 86
Partner 3 30 8 14 10 15 77
Partner 4 41 5 13 10 15 83
Partner 5 46 10 14 10 15 95
Partner 6 16 10 13 10 10 59
Partner 7 47 5 13 10 15 89
Green >85 %
Yellow 50-84 %
Red <49 %
6. Developing system for routine performance
monitoring among all stakeholders
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7. Promoting agricultural innovations and
technologies using FTCs as a platform
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8. Resource mobilization, allocation and tracking
system
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Woreda Based Costed multi-sector plan
• Developed using One goal, One Plan and One
Monitoring and Evaluation planning framework
• Consists of costed federal ministries plan, regional
bureaus plan and partners plan disaggregated by
woreda
9. Conducting joint and harmonized public
movement
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Acknowledgement
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Save the Children
International /GtN AAHFH ETHIOPIA
ORDA
Invest for Nutrition!
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