Bolivia's Multisectoral Zero Malnutrition Programme, known as Desnutricion Cero, targets children under the age of five, with particular emphasis on children under two, prioritizing the 52 municipalities the government has identified as most vulnerable to food insecurity, home to some 665,000 people including more than 20,000 pregnant women and over 100,000 children under five. Working with support from UNICEF, the programme built out strategies to improve nutritional knowledge and practices, hygiene, sanitation and solid waste management among families and communities, and it established a network of 52 Integrated Nutrition Units alongside 16 hospitals designated as Mother and Child Friendly for their care of malnourished children and their mothers. Applying the World Health Organization's ten-step protocol for managing severe malnutrition, the programme reduced the mortality rate among children with severe malnutrition from 25 percent to under 5 percent within five years of its implementation, a marked improvement in a country where roughly one in three children has suffered from malnutrition.
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Program Status Sponsoring BodyMinisterio de Salud (Ministry of Health) and other Bolivian state ministries 1 Target PopulationChildren under 5 years of age 1 Health GoalStrengthen municipal response capacity to reduce malnutrition and anaemia among children under five and pregnant and breastfeeding women 2 Geographic ScopeBolivia, nationwide across its municipalities 1 Measured ResultsChronic malnutrition among children under two reduced from 23 percent to 15 percent 1 Classification
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Source SDG Fund: Strengthening the Response to Malnutrition in Bolivia
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1. Ministerio de Salud de Bolivia: Programa Multisectorial Desnutricion Cero
Ministerio de Salud y Deportes, Estado Plurinacional de BoliviaMinisterio de Salud program page
desde su implementación en el año 2006, ha logrado contribuir a la reducción de los índices de malnutrición
Ministerio de Salud program page, results section
la reducción de la desnutrición crónica en menores de dos años de un 23% al 15%
Ministerio de Salud program page, sponsoring-ministries sentence
El Programa Multisectorial Desnutrición Cero conformado por el Ministerio de Salud y otros ministerios estatales
Ministerio de Salud program page, target-population phrase
menores de 5 años
Ministerio de Salud program page, municipios sentence
la mayoría de los municipios en nuestro país tienen alimentación complementaria escolar
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Bolivia's Multisectoral Zero Malnutrition Programme, known as Desnutricion Cero, targets children under the age of five, with particular emphasis on children under two, prioritizing the 52 municipalities the government has identified as most vulnerable to food insecurity, home to some 665,000 people including more than 20,000 pregnant women and over 100,000 children under five.
View the Source 2. SDG Fund: Strengthening the Response to Malnutrition in Bolivia
Sustainable Development Goals Fund (SDG Fund)SDG Fund case study, program description
the Bolivian Government's Zero Malnutrition Multi-sectoral Programme (PMD-C)
SDG Fund case study, results section
At least 21,489 children and pregnant and breast-feeding women improved the availability and access to food in quality and quantity.
Associated With: Nutrition Science, Page text
The purpose of the intervention was to strengthen the local response capacity of 22 municipalities, in the departments of Cochabamba and Chuquisaca, for the implementation of the Bolivian Government's Zero Malnutrition Multi-sectoral Programme.
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