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KWSG set to implement optimal nutrition status for children, women

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The says it is set to finalise the policy document and multi-sectoral plan of action on Food and Nutrition for the domestication of the National Policy on Food and Nutrition and the validation of the state Food and Nutrition policy.

Marion Adekeye, chairperson of the State Committee for the Domestication of Food and Nutrition Policy, said that this at the end of 5-days workshop organised for the domestication of the policy at G-pinnacle Hotel, Pipeline road, Ilorin.

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She notes that the committee has completed the assignment of coming up with the State policy document to ensure seamless and smooth implementation of food and nutrition programmes in Kwara State.

“The state Food and Nutrition Policy will ensure optimal nutritional status of residents in Kwara, most importantly, women, children, adolescent and elderly people,” said Adekeye.

The chairperson further explained that the policy and the multi-sectoral work plan are scheduled for validation by the commissioners/permanent Secretaries of the relevant Ministries, Departments, and Agencies by December this year and subsequently signed by the State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq to make it operational in Kwara State.

“When the document is signed; it will enable the State to address the menace of chronic malnutrition and other nutritional issues that have hampered the physical and mental growth of women and children in the State.

“Kwara will only have a prosperous and secure society when children develop physically and mentally to pursue their objectives in life with sound health and vigour that will make them responsible members in our society in future,” said Adekeye.

Earlier, Jayne Arinnze-Egemonye, monitoring and evaluation Specialist of CS-SUNN, assured that CS-SUNN will continue to work assiduously to ensure that the State Policy on Food and Nutrition become operational in order to eradicate nutritional challenges facing the State.

Arinze-Egemonye, appreciated the State Government’s strong political will and commitment to ensure that Kwara has a policy document for the implementation of food and nutrition in Kwara State.