Hana provided edits on the draft Accord and proposed an additional commitment:
Recognize that a framework for collective commitment, action and results is needed to improve people’s nutrition, particularly that of women and children, and agree to the following commitments:
- revise nutrition policies so that they comprehensively address the double burden of malnutrition;
- establish effective intersectoral governance mechanisms for implementation of nutrition policies at national and local levels that contribute towards policy integration across sectors;
- engage local governments and communities in the design of plans to expand nutrition actions and ensure their integration in existing community programmes;
- ensure the national nutrition priority programs are developed based on evidence based interventions to improve infant, young child, adolescents and maternal nutrition using the life cycle approach;
- etc……
Hana Bekele