Vision:
A healthy, productive and internationally competitive county
Mission:
A progressive, sustainable, technologically driven, evidence-based and client-centered nutrition system with the highest attainable standards of health at all levels of care.
Core Values:
Trustworthiness
Customer-centeredness
Teamwork
Effective communication
Integrity, and a positive attitude
The objective of the CNAP is to contribute to the national agenda for KNAP in accelerating and scaling up efforts towards the elimination of malnutrition in Kenya in line with Kenya’s Vision 2030 and sustainable development goals, focusing on specific achievements by 2022. The expected result or desired change for the CNAP is that ‘The entire population of Busia county achieve optimal nutrition for a healthier and better quality of life and improved productivity for the county’s accelerated social and economic growth. The key strategies that will be adopted in the implementation of CNAP will include;
• Life-course approach to nutrition programming which is a holistic approach to nutrition issues for all population groups
• Gender mainstreaming towards ensuring consistent application of gender transformative approaches across all interventions in all sectors
• Coordination and partnerships targeting sectoral and multi sectoral approaches to enhance programming across various levels and sectors,
• Integration which will consider the various platforms in place to deliver deliver gender transformative nutrition responsive to the specific nutrition and health related needs of populations across different gender age and diversities , e.g., health centers, schools and at the community level.
• Capacity strengthening for implementation of nutrition services responsive to the specific needs of men and women across different ages and diversities targeting service providers and related systems
• Advocacy, communication and social mobilization thus acknowledging that nutrition improvements require political goodwill for increased investments and raising population level awareness, , their increased support and participation for improved food and nutrition security for all.
• Promoting equity and human rights especially among vulnerable and marginalized populations in effort to ensure that every person is free from hunger and have adequate food of acceptable quality including equitable access to quality health services.
• Resilience and risk-informed programming that focus on anticipating, planning and reducing disaster risks to effectively protect persons, communities, livelihoods and health
• Monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) hence promotion of use of the triple A (assessment, analysis & action) cyclic process to provide feedback, learn lessons and adjust strategy as appropriate
• Empowerment for sustainability of results – the need to ensure predictable flow of resources, develop technical and managerial capacity of implementers, motivate implementers, ensure vertical and horizontal linkages, and gradual exit when exiting an intervention.
The target audience for the county nutrition action plan (CNAP) cuts across policy makers and decision makers both at national and county governments, donors and implementing partners of both nutrition specific and sensitive interventions, line ministries, county health management team, sub county health management teams, nutrition workforce in health and other departments that influence and provide enabling environment for nutrition to be achieved and the communities at the grassroots level. This will enable them to understand what the county government is doing to ensure optimal nutrition for the entire population and what they can do individually to contribute to the effort.