Costing of the 2016-2020 National Plan of Actions for Nutrition (NPAN) in Vietnam

Investing in evidence-based nutrition actions is important for improving children’s health globally. Fifty six countries have committed to the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement. Costing and tracking of investments in nutrition are important parts of the policy planning, implementation, and monitoring cycle. 

In the National Plan of Action for Nutrition (NPAN), 2011-2015, nutrition sensitive interventions were not properly costed and consequently, it was difficult for Viet Nam to track the contributions of other sectors to the nutrition programme.  Therefore, there is an urgent need to carry out a costing exercise of the NPAN, 2016-2020, which will include nutrition-specific, nutrition-sensitive, and governance actions.  The costing focuses specifically on estimating the costs of nutrition sensitive interventions.

Cost estimation should provide the real cost of implementing the plan in its entirety to achieve the stated nutrition goals in the NPAN, 2016-2020. NIN and UNICEF will work closely with the SUN Movement Secretariat, Alive & Thrive and other relevant stakeholders.