National Nutrition Strategy to 2025 and Plan of Action 2016-2020.

This 2016-2020 National Nutrition Strategy (NNS) has been improved based on the experiences, opportunities, obligations, and important participation of multiple domestic sectors and development partners and thanks to international interest in providing support and acts as means of adopting the policies and strategies of the long-term National Socio-Economic Development Plan (NSEDP) of the government of the Lao PDR. This NNS is a tool for all sectors related to nutrition and food security (NFS) and is to be used over a ten-year timeframe up until 2025. The National Plan of Action on Nutrition (NPAN) is to run for a five-year period and emphasizes the same kinds of implementation – using a multi-sectoral convergent approach with common goals, and timeframes while boosting resources and increasing support from development partners and the relevant stakeholders to the greatest extent possible to reduce all forms of malnutrition among women, children and disadvantaged groups, to achieve success, and meet the set targets.