“The Government of Ethiopia is committed to strengthen links with other Government sectors, development partners, donors, private sector and civil societies… as well as to seek further investment in nutrition.”
- Dr Kesetebirhan Admasu Birhane, State Minister of Health, Ethiopia, April 2011
SUN Activities:
- Ethiopia’s National Nutrition Program:Nutrition Information System – Ethiopia’s presentation from the SUN Workshop on September 21st, 2011 in NYC
Success Stories:
Ethiopia, 18 April: EU donates €3 million to UNICEF for nutrition security
| Community-based nutrition programme targets children at risk in Ethiopia | |
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Conducted by volunteer community health worker Kasim Jibral in Chancho village, Kebso Tekoma sub-district, the session is part of the UNICEF-supported Community Based Nutrition (CBN) programme. The Government of Ethiopia introduced this initiative in 2008 in drought-prone and food-insecure districts such as Deder, where Kebso Tekoma is located. Monthly community sessions to monitor and promote the growth of children two years of age and younger represent one of the pillars of CBN. The programme empowers communities to assess the nutritional status of their children and take action, using their own resources, to prevent malnutrition. Read more… |
| Championing salt iodization | |
| Story by the Micronutrient Initiative | |
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When H E Hassen Abdulkadir was posted as Ethiopian Ambassador to Senegal, he never expected to become so interested in producing and iodizing salt. Hassen is from the Afar region of Ethiopia, a hot desert area in the north-east of the country, wherein lies one of the largest inland saline lakes in the world, Lake Afdera. Salt ponds dotted around the shore of the lake supply almost 100 percent of Ethiopia’s salt. Unfortunately, less than 1 percent of all the salt produced there was being iodized. This is important because women need to have adequate iodine early in pregnancy for the brain development of their children, and in many areas of Ethiopia they cannot get enough iodine through food. Read more… |
| Outpatient therapeutic feeding programmes save lives in Ethiopia | |
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Berida Jateni, 40, appears worried and gaunt and much older than her years. Sitting next to her hut in drought-ravaged Borena near the Kenya border she laments the impact of the drought that is threatening to destroy her pastoralist way of life. Decaying carcasses of fallen cattle bear witness to the tragedy that has befallen Borena since the last decent rains fell over two years ago. Consecutive seasons of failed rains have decimated the prized cattle herds upon which the largely pastoralist Borena depend for their livelihoods. Able-bodied men in the worst-off areas near the border with Kenya have moved north in search of water and pasture with the surviving cattle. Read more… |