Accelerating nutrition improvements in Sub-Saharan Africa: scaling up nutrition interventions

Overview

The scale-up component of Accelerating Nutrition Improvements in sub-Saharan Africa (ANI), was implemented in three high-burden Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) countries (Ethiopia, Uganda, and the United Republic of Tanzania) in collaboration between the ministry of health (MoH), the World Health Organization (WHO) and local partners.

Scaling-up activities were implemented through country-led programmes and strategies and within existing systems to avoid duplication and ensure sustainability.

The scale-up component of the ANI project aimed to:

The ANI project addressed priority issues and approaches articulated in the national nutrition strategies. The issues include infant and young child feeding (IYCF), vitamin and mineral deficiencies, maternal and child malnutrition and nutrition surveillance, surveys and information management. Approaches covered expanding access to quality high impact interventions delivered at facility and community levels, improving the knowledge, skills and competencies of service providers at all levels to give adequate support in nutrition, improving the district and regional level management of nutrition services and creating demand for services through behaviour change communication.

The three scale-up countries showed significant common achievements: