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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

Committed to ending stunting in children under 2 years in 2030

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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