• Latest
  • Trending
  • All
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • Security
  • Education
  • Sports
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Legal
  • Technology and Science
  • Opinion
  • Columns
  • Exposé
  • World
  • Lifestyle
USAID, Advancing Nutrition Project, Collaborate With FG To Host National Nutrition Data, Results Conference

USAID, Advancing Nutrition Project, Collaborate With FG To Host National Nutrition Data, Results Conference

3 years ago
Club World Cup: Bayern Pummel Auckland, Egypt’s Al Ahly Cage Inter Miami In Opener

Club World Cup: Bayern Pummel Auckland, Egypt’s Al Ahly Cage Inter Miami In Opener

13 hours ago
Gattuso: World Cup Winner Takes Over As Italy Coach

Gattuso: World Cup Winner Takes Over As Italy Coach

15 hours ago
Usman Overcomes American Fighter To Reclaim UFC Victory

Usman Overcomes American Fighter To Reclaim UFC Victory

21 hours ago
Gyokeres Turns Down Man Utd, Arsenal Heighten Interest

Gyokeres Turns Down Man Utd, Arsenal Heighten Interest

1 day ago
Nigeria’s Usman Set To Face Buckley In UFC Clash

Nigeria’s Usman Set To Face Buckley In UFC Clash

1 day ago
Monday, June 16, 2025
  • About
  • Privacy Policy
Heritage Times
No Result
View All Result
Translate |
  • Login
  • Politics
    Auto Draft

    Burundi: Outrage As Ruling Party Sweeps All Parliamentary Seats

    Cameroon: Police Lay Siege At Opposition Leader’s Home

    Cameroon: Police Lay Siege At Opposition Leader’s Home

    At Tanzania Summit, African Leaders Call For End To DRC Conflict

    Rwanda Exits Central African Regional Bloc Over Row With DRC

    SA: Top Official Of Jacob Zuma’s Party Sacked After Visiting Malawian Pastor Accused Of Fraud

    SA: Top Official Of Jacob Zuma’s Party Sacked After Visiting Malawian Pastor Accused Of Fraud

    Mongolia: After Weeks Of Demonstrations Over Family Lavish Lifestyles, PM Resigns

    Mongolia: After Weeks Of Demonstrations Over Family Lavish Lifestyles, PM Resigns

    Poland: Conservative Opposition Candidate Wins Presidential Election In Tight Race

    Poland: Conservative Opposition Candidate Wins Presidential Election In Tight Race

    Sudan’s New Prime Minister Disbands Caretaker Government

    Sudan’s New Prime Minister Disbands Caretaker Government

    Ivory Coast: Opposition Coalition Insists On Electoral Reforms Ahead Of Polls

    Ivory Coast: Opposition Coalition Insists On Electoral Reforms Ahead Of Polls

    Tanzania: Lawyers Seek UN Intervention Over Detention Of Opposition Leader

  • Economy
    AfDB Approves $184M For Egypt To Construct Africa’s Largest Solar Plant

    AfDB Approves $184M For Egypt To Construct Africa’s Largest Solar Plant

    Mali Relies On Russia’s Partnership To End Export Of Raw Gold

    Mali Relies On Russia’s Partnership To End Export Of Raw Gold

    Nigeria Ranked Third Among Africa’s Leading Manufacturing Nations

    Nigeria Ranked Third Among Africa’s Leading Manufacturing Nations

    SA: After Political Impasse, Parliament Passes Budget Framework

    SA: After Political Impasse, Parliament Passes Budget Framework

    China Grants Full Tariff Relief To African Nations

    China Grants Full Tariff Relief To African Nations

    Zimbabwe Bans Export Of Lithium Used In Battery Manufacturing

    Zimbabwe Bans Export Of Lithium Used In Battery Manufacturing

    Binance

    After His Ordeal In Nigeria, Gambaryan Has Quit His Role At Binance

    Elon Musk Loses $34 Billion Amid Clash With Trump

    Elon Musk Loses $34 Billion Amid Clash With Trump

    World Bank Seeks Stronger, Results-Focused Partnerships For Africa’s Development

    World Bank Seeks Stronger, Results-Focused Partnerships For Africa’s Development

  • Security
  • Education
  • Sports
  • Health
  • Metro
  • Entertainment
  • Lifestyle
  • Legal
  • Tech & Science
  • Opinion
  • Exposé
  • Exclusive Videos
  • Niger Delta
  • World
  • Politics
    Auto Draft

    Burundi: Outrage As Ruling Party Sweeps All Parliamentary Seats

    Cameroon: Police Lay Siege At Opposition Leader’s Home

    Cameroon: Police Lay Siege At Opposition Leader’s Home

    At Tanzania Summit, African Leaders Call For End To DRC Conflict

    Rwanda Exits Central African Regional Bloc Over Row With DRC

    SA: Top Official Of Jacob Zuma’s Party Sacked After Visiting Malawian Pastor Accused Of Fraud

    SA: Top Official Of Jacob Zuma’s Party Sacked After Visiting Malawian Pastor Accused Of Fraud

    Mongolia: After Weeks Of Demonstrations Over Family Lavish Lifestyles, PM Resigns

    Mongolia: After Weeks Of Demonstrations Over Family Lavish Lifestyles, PM Resigns

    Poland: Conservative Opposition Candidate Wins Presidential Election In Tight Race

    Poland: Conservative Opposition Candidate Wins Presidential Election In Tight Race

    Sudan’s New Prime Minister Disbands Caretaker Government

    Sudan’s New Prime Minister Disbands Caretaker Government

    Ivory Coast: Opposition Coalition Insists On Electoral Reforms Ahead Of Polls

    Ivory Coast: Opposition Coalition Insists On Electoral Reforms Ahead Of Polls

    Tanzania: Lawyers Seek UN Intervention Over Detention Of Opposition Leader

  • Economy
    AfDB Approves $184M For Egypt To Construct Africa’s Largest Solar Plant

    AfDB Approves $184M For Egypt To Construct Africa’s Largest Solar Plant

    Mali Relies On Russia’s Partnership To End Export Of Raw Gold

    Mali Relies On Russia’s Partnership To End Export Of Raw Gold

    Nigeria Ranked Third Among Africa’s Leading Manufacturing Nations

    Nigeria Ranked Third Among Africa’s Leading Manufacturing Nations

    SA: After Political Impasse, Parliament Passes Budget Framework

    SA: After Political Impasse, Parliament Passes Budget Framework

    China Grants Full Tariff Relief To African Nations

    China Grants Full Tariff Relief To African Nations

    Zimbabwe Bans Export Of Lithium Used In Battery Manufacturing

    Zimbabwe Bans Export Of Lithium Used In Battery Manufacturing

    Binance

    After His Ordeal In Nigeria, Gambaryan Has Quit His Role At Binance

    Elon Musk Loses $34 Billion Amid Clash With Trump

    Elon Musk Loses $34 Billion Amid Clash With Trump

    World Bank Seeks Stronger, Results-Focused Partnerships For Africa’s Development

    World Bank Seeks Stronger, Results-Focused Partnerships For Africa’s Development

  • Security
  • Education
  • Sports
  • Health
  • Metro
  • Entertainment
  • Lifestyle
  • Legal
  • Tech & Science
  • Opinion
  • Exposé
  • Exclusive Videos
  • Niger Delta
  • World
No Result
View All Result
First with the News

USAID, Advancing Nutrition Project, Collaborate With FG To Host National Nutrition Data, Results Conference

October 13, 2022
in Health
0
0
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Whatsapp

By Ere-ebi Agedah

In an effort to tackle alarming rate of nutrition in Nigeria, the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, the Advancing Nutrition Project has collaborated with the federal government on a 3-day stakeholders conference which seeks to develop a strategic road map to advance Nigeria’s nutrition data value chain.

Relatedreading

Zambia: Ex-President Lungu Dies At 68

Bill Gates Pledges Most Of His $200bn Fortune To Africa

It is also expected to provide a framework which will stand as basics to align and coordinate around the national data quality, utilization, financing, budget tagging and tracking.

This comes as UNICEF says Nigeria is heading in the right direction as more women are exclusively breastfeeding their children up till six months of age, revealing that the new data from last year’s survey shows that there is more support for women to attend antenatal services.

Speaking at the flag off of the conference tagged, ‘‘Call to Action’’ in Abuja, the Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition, MIYCN Advisor for USAID Advancing Nutrition Project, Pauline Adah, said as an organization with the mandate to increase Nutrition data, the conference will afford increased data evidence to present the growth of children and also seek to find solutions of better ways to improve the nutrition data as it pertains to SDGs.

Adah explained that at the moment Nigeria has a gap program that seeks to reduce malnutrition in different forms of wasting and stunting.

As a development partner, Adah added that USAID Advancing Nutrition Project has an immense contribution to the Nutrition space in Nigeria like the Integrated Health Programme, Breakthrough Action Nigeria programme and recently the USAID Advancing Nutrition Project in Nigeria.

‘‘Our several projects come together to fit into the different aspects of Nutrition to advance the results of nutrition in Nigeria. We are a very huge contributors to all the surveys that are been shared in the conference, we have the micro nutrient survey result, the food consumption survey results, that will all be shared in the conference.

‘‘We are also very interested in this conference because it will help give a new face to nutrition actions in Nigeria, it is only through data that you can know what the state of Nutrition is and know what area to put in more effort. We are looking forward to all the data that will be shared in this conference and it will help us shape our upcoming proposals for new projects.

She however explained that one of their mandates at USAID Advancing Nutrition Project is to strengthen the capacity of all their state partners.

‘‘We are presently working with Bauchi, kebbi and Sokoto and we will be including Ebonyi state and the FCT, we ensure that we disseminate these materials to the states and the LGAs, we work very closely with the state committee on food and nutrition in each of the state, we ensure that these documents are passed on. We are also working on forming the local government committee for food and nutrition thereby making sure that these documents get to the grassroots they get to see the results that speak to the nutrition status of their environment, this will equally encourage them to do more where they see a lot of gaps’’ she explained.

Also, speaking on the sidelines of the conference, the Chief of Nutrition, UNICEF, Nemat Hajeeebhoy said Nigeria is ranked number one in Africa with the number of malnourished children, attributing it to lack of progress as to what the children eat after six months of age, insisting that it is critically important if the country intends to reverse the trend of malnutrition.

‘‘My appeal to everyone using this data is that we ensure that our health system, our food system, our social protection system, our work with women, mothers’ weather you are in the private or government is done to support all mothers to be with their children and ensure that they get the right nutrition and the right start to life’’ she said.

While declaring the conference open, the Minister of State for Health, Prince Clement Agba noted that the Federal government is an active participant in policies that addresses malnutrition as it has made investment in Nutrition a priority insisting that failure to implement this can attract a negative effect on the Nation’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP.

According to the minister, the FGs response in the fight against malnutrition has been productive and people oriented which includes a physical stimulus package, amendment to the medium physical framework and the establishment of nutrition department.

The minister insisted that the FG has emphasized on protecting the economy and funding critical sectors of the economy adding that significant progress has been made like the launch of the multi economic sustainability package.

‘‘As part of our resolve to move the nutrition agenda forward we have priorities the implementation of the National multi sectoral plan flagship for food and Nutrition in the national development plan of 2021-2025 this is in addition to the concentric diversification of our economy with agriculture through continuum of the value chain that has now contributed significantly to our economy.

‘‘In line with the United Nations directives, Nigeria successfully organized series of food systems at both National and subnational levels of government.

‘‘We have placed investment in nutrition a priority through amendment to the physical stimulus package and during this conference we will unveil numerous projects carried out in the nutrition data space.

“Nutrition is not just a health issue it is about the protection of the next generation, let us ensure that every child has the opportunity to survive and thrive’’ he said.

 

 

Tags: breakingChief of NutritionHeritageheritage timesheritagetimesmedialatestMaternal Infant and Young Child NutritionMinister of State for HealthMIYCN Advisor for USAID Advancing Nutrition ProjectNemat HajeeebhoynewsPauline AdahPrince Clement Agbathe heritage timesthtthtafricatop storiesUNICEF
ShareTweetSend
Previous Post

Despite 5 Consecutive Defeats, Super Falcons Step Up In Latest FIFA Ranking 

Next Post

We Do Not Want A World War, Macron Tells Putin

Related Posts

Zambia: Ex-President Lungu Dies At 68

Zambia: Ex-President Lungu Dies At 68

June 5, 2025
Bill Gates Pledges Most Of His $200bn Fortune To Africa

Bill Gates Pledges Most Of His $200bn Fortune To Africa

June 3, 2025

S/A: Closure Of US-Funded Cancer Clinic Deepens Pressure On Public Hospitals

Cholera Outbreak Sweeps Sudan, Over 2,500 Infected

Zambia: Foreign Minister Warns Diplomats Against Meddling With Country’s Affairs

Liberia: President Of Medical Association Barred Over Qualification Controversy

Next Post
Macron Holds First Rally As France Election Race Tightens

We Do Not Want A World War, Macron Tells Putin

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Updates

Plugin Install : Widget Tab Post needs JNews - View Counter to be installed
  • Trending
  • Comments
  • Latest
Club World Cup: Bayern Pummel Auckland, Egypt’s Al Ahly Cage Inter Miami In Opener

Club World Cup: Bayern Pummel Auckland, Egypt’s Al Ahly Cage Inter Miami In Opener

June 15, 2025
Gattuso: World Cup Winner Takes Over As Italy Coach

Gattuso: World Cup Winner Takes Over As Italy Coach

June 15, 2025
Usman Overcomes American Fighter To Reclaim UFC Victory

Usman Overcomes American Fighter To Reclaim UFC Victory

June 15, 2025
Gyokeres Turns Down Man Utd, Arsenal Heighten Interest

Gyokeres Turns Down Man Utd, Arsenal Heighten Interest

June 14, 2025
ADVERTISEMENT

Most Recent

Club World Cup: Bayern Pummel Auckland, Egypt’s Al Ahly Cage Inter Miami In Opener

June 15, 2025

Gattuso: World Cup Winner Takes Over As Italy Coach

June 15, 2025

Usman Overcomes American Fighter To Reclaim UFC Victory

June 15, 2025

Gyokeres Turns Down Man Utd, Arsenal Heighten Interest

June 14, 2025

Nigeria’s Usman Set To Face Buckley In UFC Clash

June 14, 2025

France Says It’s Ready To Accept Foreign Students If Trump’s Ban Attempt Succeeds

June 14, 2025

King Charles Honours Victims Of Indian Plane Crash At Birthday Parade

June 14, 2025

Ghana Gears Up To Host FESTAC AFRICA 2025

June 14, 2025

About

Heritage Times HT stands as a beacon of pan-African journalism, dedicated to amplyfing the rich tapestry of voices and narratives across the continent. With unwavering commitment, we illuminate the evocative essence of Africa, offering a fresh perspective that captivates our global audience.

Featured

AfDB Set For A New President, As Ould Tah Gains Continental Endorsement

How Dangote Is Turning Trump’s Trade War Into Africa’s Opportunity

Nigeria @ 64: Meet Young Luminaries Leading Social Transformation

Connect

Connect with us on social media and receive timely updates on the go.

Get Updates

  • About
  • Privacy Policy

© 2024 Heritage Times (HT) Media.

No Result
View All Result
  • Welcome
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • Security
  • Exposé
  • Education
  • Sports
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Legal
  • Technology and Science
  • Columns
    • Opinion
  • World
  • __________________
  • Make a Donation
  • Photo Speaks
  • Videos
  • You-Report
  • Whistleblower
  • Advertise
  • HT Events
  • About HT
  • Contact us

© 2024 Heritage Times (HT) Media.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In