The Resource Mobilization plan was developed by the Seqota Declaration Federal Program Delivery Unit team within the Nutrition Coordination Office of Ethiopia’s Federal Ministry of Health. Technical support was provided by Results for Development (R4D) and funding provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Please contact Wossen Negash for any questions or comments on this report.
The Government of Ethiopia has demonstrated strong and sustained commitment to improving food and nutrition security in the country. Despite significant progress, malnutrition remains a massive socioeconomic and public health problem in Ethiopia. To address this, in July 2015, the Government of Ethiopia launched the Seqota Declaration.
The Seqota Declaration is the Government of Ethiopia’s high-level commitment to end stunting among children under two years by 2030. It builds on and catalyzes the implementation of the national Food and Nutrition Strategy by delivering high-impact nutrition-specific, nutrition-sensitive, and climate and nutrition-smart infrastructure interventions. After a successful Innovation Phase implementation in 40 woredas, the government of Ethiopia launched the ambitious Expansion Phase in 240 woredas that aim to reach more vulnerable households with multi-sectoral interventions. On January 1st, 2024, the Government of Ethiopia made the decision to expand the number of woredas from 240 to 700, which requires significant investment to achieve the goal of ending stunting among children under two years in these geographic areas by 2030.
A critical component for the success of nutrition programing is securing the required resources to implement activities at the proposed scale and coverage to achieve the set targets. The Seqota Declaration Roadmap indicates that over a 10-year period, scaling up programs to achieve the eight strategic objectives of the Seqota Declaration would cost a total of 146 billion ETB, funding both the Expansion and Scale-Up Phases. To meet these costs, the federal government has committed to allocate 3 billion ETB annually from Treasury which will be matched by regions for an additional allocation of 3 billion ETB annually from regional governments. The Seqota Declaration has issued a request to partners to match the government contribution of 6 billion ETB annually for a total of 12 billion ETB annually in government-managed funding to meet the Scale-up Phase costs.
Taking this into account, a Resource Mobilization Plan has been developed to support the three sustainable financing goals of the Seqota Declaration:
- Strengthen multi-sectoral financial management for nutrition for improved nutrition outcomes and evidence-based decision-making.
- Increase sustainable funding sources by engaging with existing and new and innovative stakeholders to fund the Seqota Declaration.
- Mobilize resources to finance the Expansion & Scale-Up Phases.
All stakeholders have a role to play in achieving the Seqota Declaration financing goals, and the Resource Mobilization Plan establishes thirteen supportive partner actions for all stakeholders to reach these goals.
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