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in September 2019. Key lessons to stunting
reduction include:
• Governance Structures from National
Level to Community Level. In Malawi,
during the f eld mission conducted in Oc-
tober 2019, it became very clear that well-
functioning governance structure that fa-
cilitate implementation, monitoring and
reporting on nutrition across the dif erent
sectors is one of the enabling factors.
• Co-ordination Mechanism at the Highest
Level of Authority to Facilitate Stewardship
and Accountability such as in the Prime
Minister’s of ce in Tanzania;
• Existence of Multi-Sectoral Nutrition
Policies that makes provision for nutri-
tion specif c (micronutrient supplemen-
tation, improved infant and young child
feeding practices), and nutrition-sensi-
tive programming (e.g. production and
consumption of diverse crops, WASH,
social protection programmes, nutrition
education); and
Early Childhood Nutrition • Dedicated Budget for Nutrition at District
T e following were the achievements dur- Level as in the case of Tanzania has
ing the past year: brought some gains in the implementation
1. SADC Action Framework for Improving of nutrition interventions at district level.
the Quality of Young Children’s Diets. T e
86 regional action framework for improving
the quality of young children’s diets has EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR
been developed with the aim to activate
multi-sectoral national actions from the Enhance employment creation, labour rela-
health, food, social protection and WASH tions, labour market information and pro-
sectors to deliver high impact nutrition ductivity for industrial development and
specif c and sensitive actions that would regional integration.
improve diets of young children;
2. Approval of the Regional Technical Regu- Output: SADC Labour Migration Policy
lation on the Marketing of Breastmilk Sub- Framework approved and implemented
stitutes and Designated Products by within the broad context of facilitation of
Ministers of Health in November 2019. movement of persons by 2020;
T e Regional Technical Regulation on the As part of ef orts to facilitate skills sharing for
marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and industrialisation through labour migration,
designated products provides model law the Ministers of Employment and Labour and
that Member States can adapt into national Social Partners, in March 2020, adopted a new
legislations to facilitate ending of inappro- SADC Labour Migration Action Plan (2020-
priate promotion of foods for infants and 2025). T e new Plan seeks to consolidate the
young children, protect and support progress being made in a number of Member
breastfeeding and the adoption of subse- States through the adoption of national labour
quent World Health Assembly 69.9 reso- migration policies.
lutions; T is action is in line with Article 5 of the
3. Documentation of Stunting Reduction SADC Treaty which requires development
Best Practices and Lessons. T e SADC of policies aimed at the progressive elimina-
Secretariat conducted missions to Malawi tion of obstacles to the free movement of
and Lesotho to document lessons on stunt- capital and labour, goods and services, and
ing reductions. Additional lessons were of the people of the Region generally, among
shared by Zimbabwe and Tanzania during Member States. Accordingly, the SADC
a regional Food and Nutrition Steering Labour Migration Action Plan has the fol-
Committee meeting, held in Dar es Salaam lowing objectives: