Ethiopia's Ministry of Finance has signed a grant agreement worth over $31 million with the African Development Bank (AfDB) aimed at supporting the efforts to end child stunting and malnutrition in Ethiopia.
Signing the agreement were Yasmin Wohabrebbi, Ethiopia's State Minister of Finance, and Abdu B. Kamara, AfDB's Deputy Director-General for East Africa Regional Development and Business Delivery Office.
The agreement, under the Seqota Declaration which aims to end stunting in children, will be implemented in Amhara and Tigray regions, it was learned.
On the occasion, Ethiopia's State Minister of Finance Ms. Yasmin pointed out the grant will help strengthen efforts to "eradicate the underlying causes of chronic under-nutrition and ending stunting among children." She further noted that the grant will help the implementation of Ethiopia's Food and Nutrition Strategy, which she recalled aims to deliver high-impact nutrition-specific and infrastructure interventions across multiple sectors such as health, agriculture, water, education, and the environment.
On the part of AfDB, Mr. Kamara noted the grant is part of the African Development Bank's continued support to Ethiopia's development, while remarking this specific grant will help achieve Ethiopia's plan to reduce and eventually end stunting.
Under its 10-year prospective plan, Ethiopia aims to reduce child stunting to 13 percent from 37 percent for children under the age of five, and to three percent from seven percent for those aged under a year by 2030.
The Ethiopian government signed the Seqota Declaration, which aspires to end child malnutrition by 2030, in 2015.
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