Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index Africa
Ranking governments on their political commitment to tackling hunger and undernutrition
Key data for Côte d’Ivoire
NCI7th
HRCI22nd
HANCI15th
HANCI-Africa compares 45 African countries for their performance on 22
indicators of political commitment to reduce hunger and
undernutrition. All the countries compared in the index have high rates
of hunger and undernutrition. The comparative approach
of the index means that country scores are calculated in relation to the
political commitment of the other countries in the index.
Existing rates of: Stunting: 21.6%
Wasting: 6.1%
Proportion of population underweight: 6.1%
Source: Government of Côte D’Ivoire (MICS,2016)
Strong Performance
- The Government of Côte d’Ivoire has ensured tenure security for rural populations. Land titling is common and land markets function well. Policy promotes equitable access to common property resources.
- The Government encourages varied agricultural research and extension services, and local farmer organisations are involved in setting policy priorities. The extension system is effective and properly reaches out to poor farmers. Government policies, strategies and mechanisms seek to ensure gender equity in access to extension services.
- Relative to other HANCI countries, Côte d’Ivoire’s medium/long term national development policy (Programme national de développement Tome I Diagnostic strategique) assigns strong importance to nutrition.
- Côte d’Ivoire instituted a separate budget line for nutrition, enabling transparency and accountability for spending.
- The National Nutrition Policy/Strategy identifies time bound nutrition targets and a multisectoral and multistakeholder policy coordination mechanism has been set up.
- Policymakers in Côte d’Ivoire benefit from regular nutrition surveys that are statistically representative at national level. The last survey was published in 2016.
- The Government of Côte d’Ivoire promotes complementary feeding practices.
- In Côte d’Ivoire 93.2% of women aged 15-49 were visited at least once during pregnancy by skilled health personnel in 2016.
- In Côte d’Ivoire, constitutional protection of the right to social security is strong.
Areas for improvement
- Spending on agriculture (3.6% of public spending in 2019), does not meet government commitments set out in the African Union’s Maputo Declaration (10% of public spending).
- Côte d’Ivoire’s spending in its health sector (5.1% of public spending in 2017) does not fully meet (15%) commitments set out in the Abuja Declaration.
- In Côte d’Ivoire, law does neither give women economic rights or agricultural land access rights equal to men. This increases women and children’s vulnerability to hunger and undernutrition.
- Weak access to improved sanitation facilities (32.1% in 2017) obstructs better hunger and nutrition outcomes.
- Social safety nets in Côte d’Ivoire are basic and only cover few risks for a limited number of beneficiaries.
Hunger Reduction Commitment Index (HRCI)
| Public Spending | Score | Year | HRCI rank of 45 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public spending on agriculture as share of total public spending ? 2014-2019 government expenditures on agriculture as share of total government expenditures (Percentage)Green if >=10 Yellow if <10 and >=7.5 Red if <7.5 IFPRI (SPEED database), ReSAKSS calculations using IMF Government Statistics and African Union | 3.6% | 2019 | 26th | |
| Public spending on health as share of total public spending ? 2017 government expenditure on health as a share of total government expenditure (Percentage)Green if >=15 Yellow if <15 and >=11.25 Red if <11.25 WHO Global Health Observatory Data Repository | 5.1% | 2017 | Joint 29th | |
| Policies | Score | Year | HRCI rank of 45 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Access to land (security of tenure) ? 2005-2019 Assesses
the existence of an institutional, legal and market framework for
secure land tenure and the procedure for land acquisition and
accessibility to all. The Ratings Scale goes from 6 (high) through 1 (low), as follows: 6 - Good for an 3 years 5 - Good 4 - Moderately Satisfactory 3 - Moderately Unsatisfactory 2 - Unsatisfactory 1 - Unsatisfactory for 3 years Green if >=4 Yellow if between 2.99 AND 4 Red if <=2.99 The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) | Strong | 2019 | Joint 3rd | |
| Access to agricultural research and extension services ? 2004-2019 This
indicator assesses to what extent the agricultural research and
extension system is accessible to poor farmers, including women farmers,
and is responsive to the needs and priorities of the poor farmers.
Coding is done in the same manner as for the ‘security of access to
land’ indicator.Green if >=4 Yellow if between 2.99 AND 4 Red if <=2.99 The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) | Strong | 2019 | Joint 18th | |
| Civil registration system — coverage of live births ? 2010-2019 Percentage of children under five years of age who were registered at the moment of the survey.Green if >=90 Yellow if between 70 AND 90 Red if <=70 | 71.7% | 2016 | 21st | |
| Functioning of social protection systems ? 2018-2020 10 = Social safety nets are comprehensive.7 = Social safety nets are well developed, but do not cover all risks for all strata of the population. 4 = Social safety nets are rudimentary and cover only few risks for a limited number of beneficiaries. 1 = Social safety nets do not exist. Green if >=7 Yellow if between 3 AND 6 Red if <=2 Transformation Index of the Bertelsmann Stiftung (BTI) | Weak | 2018 | Joint 8th | |
| Laws | Score | Year | HRCI rank of 45 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Level of constitutional protection of the right to food ? 2014-2019 Strong
= 3 Explicit all citizens, specific groups or incorporated under
living standards AND/OR Ratified international law (automatically
assigned equal status as constitutional law)Moderate = 2 Implicit as part of a broader right in constitutional law. Weak = 1 Directive Principle (not justiceable) OR Likely or confirmed equality of ratified international lay to national legislation Green if 3 Yellow if 2 Red if 1 FAO information paper and FAO web database on Right to Food (FAOLEX). | Moderate | 2019 | Joint 8th | |
| Equality of women’s access to agricultural land ? 2015-2019 Score
based on women’s legal rights and de facto rights to own and/or access
agricultural land. Value based on the following scale:1: Women and men have the same legal rights and secure access to land assets, without legal exceptions regarding some groups of women. Customary, religious and traditional laws or practices do not discriminate against women’s legal rights. 0.75: Women and men have the same legal rights and secure access to land assets, without legal exceptions regarding some groups of women. However, some customary, religious or traditional practices or laws discriminate against women’s legal right. 0.5: Women and men have the same legal rights and secure access to land assets. However, this does not apply to all groups of women. 0.25: Women and men have the same legal rights to own land assets; but not to use, make decisions and/or use land assets as collateral. 0: Women do not have the same legal rights as men to own land assets (note: in HANCI calculation, the scoring used in the original source is reversed for consistency) Green if 1 Yellow if 0.5 Red if 0 Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) accessed via OECD’s Gender, Institutions and Development Database (GID-DB) | Not in Law | 2019 | Joint 39th | |
| Equality of women’s economic rights ? 2019 The
extent to which women have equal economic rights in law and in
practice. 0: there were no economic rights for women in law and
systematic discrimination based on sex may have been built into law. 1: women had some economic rights under law, but these rights were not effectively enforced. 2: women had some economic rights under law, and the government effectively enforced these rights in practice while still allowing a low level of discrimination against women in economic matters. 3: all or nearly all of women’s economic rights were guaranteed by law and the government fully and vigorously enforces these laws in practice. Green if 3 Yellow if 1 OR 2 Red if 0 The Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project | Not in Law | 2019 | Joint 16th | |
| Constitutional right to social security ? 1996-2019 The Constitution clearly references a right to social security (see Annex II of the source document). 0= No; 1=Yes Red if 0 Green if 1 FAO information paper and other sources | Yes | 2014 | Joint 1st | |
Nutrition Commitment Index (NCI)
| Public Spending | Score | Year | NCI rank of 45 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Separate budget for nutrition ? 2017-2019 0
= no budgets or where no confirming information could be found; 0.5 =
sectoral budgets for nutrition; 1 = separate budget line for nutritionRed if 0 Green if 1 SUN
Compendium of fiches; IDS Nutrition Governance; Save the Children
Nutrition Barometer; WHO Landscape Analysis; Global Nutrition Report
(N4G tracking tables). | Yes | 2019 | Joint 1st | |
| Policies | Score | Year | NCI rank of 45 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vitamin A supplementation coverage for children ? 1996-2018 The percentage of children aged 6-59 months who received 2 high doses of vitamin A supplements within the last year.Green if >=90 Yellow if between 70 AND 90 Red if <=70 MICS Indicators, UNICEF field offices and WHO, author calculations based on government data | 84% | 2018 | 16th | |
| Government promotes complementary feeding ? 2010-2019 Whether
governments promote complementary feeding practices of children aged
6–9 months and continued breastfeeding of children at ages 12–15 and
20–23 months. 0 = no; 1= yesRed if 0 Green if 1 Sun Reports; world breast feeding trends initiative | Yes | 2010 | Joint 1st | |
| Population with access to an improved water source ? 2017-2019 The percentage of population with access to an improved drinking-water source.Green if >=90 Yellow if between 70 AND 90 Red if <=70 Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for water supply and Sanitation - WHO/UNICEF | 79.2% | 2017 | 25th | |
| Population with access to improved sanitation ? 2016-2019 The percentage of population with access to improved sanitation facilities not shared with other households.Green if >=90 Yellow if between 70 AND 90 Red if <=70 Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for water supply and Sanitation - WHO/UNICEF | 32.1% | 2017 | 26th | |
| Health care visits for pregnant women ? 2007-2019 Percentage
of women aged 15–49 years attended at least once during pregnancy
by skilled health personnel (doctor, nurse or midwife)Green if >=90 Yellow if between 70 AND 90 Red if <=70 UNICEF: DHS/MICS | 93.2% | 2016 | Joint 21st | |
| Nutrition features in national development policy ? 2019 The
total count of key search terms in a selected policy document divided
by the number of pages in the document. Search terms: nutritio*.*;
undernutrition/under-nutrition; malnutrition/mal-nutrition nutrient;
diet*.*; stunt*.*; wasting/wasted; short-for-age; short for age;
height-for-age; height for age; weight-for-age; weight for age; weight
for height; weight-for-height; Underweight; under-weight; Low birth
weight; Thinness; Micro-nutrient; micronutrient; 1000 days; one thousand
days; Breastfeed*.*; Behavior change; behaviour change; Iron deficiency
anaemi/anemi; Zinc; Deworm; de-worm; Vitamin A; Supplementary feed;
complementary feed.Green if rank is >=31 Yellow if rank is 16 to 30 Red if rank is <=15 web-based searches. | Strong | 2016-2020 | 11th | |
| National Nutrition Policy/Strategy ? 2019 Whether a national nutrition policy, plan or strategy exists. 1: Yes 0:No Red if 0 Green if 1 EIU Global Food Security Index | Yes | 2019 | Joint 1st | |
| Multisector and multistakeholder policy coordination ? 2019 Whether a multisectoral and multistakeholder coordination mechanism exists: 0 = no; 1 = yes Red if 0 Green if 1 SUN fiches/Country docs and unpublished SUN country documents | Yes | 2019 | Joint 1st | |
| Time bound nutrition targets ? 2019 Whether governments identify time bound nutrition targets in public policy documents: 0= no; 1 = yesRed if 0 Green if 1 SUN Movement Annual Progress Reports; Global Nutrition Report | Yes | 2019 | Joint 1st | |
| National nutrition survey in last 3 years ? 2005-2020 Has
there been a Demographic and Health Survey / Multiple Indicator Cluster
Survey /comparable national nutrition survey in the past three years?
1: Yes if the survey was dated 2013 or thereafter, or currently
underway. 0: No new survey undertaken after 2013.Red if 0 Green if 1 UNICEF, DHS and national nutrition surveys | Yes | 2016 | Joint 1st | |
| Laws | Score | Year | NCI rank of 45 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enshrine ICBMS in domestic law ? 2019 The extent to which the International Code for Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes is enshrined in law. 4 = ICBMS is fully in law. 3 = Many provisions of ICBMS are in law. 2 = Few provisions are in law. 1 = No legal measures. Green if 4 Yellow if 2 or 3 Red if 1 ‘Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes: National Implementation of the International Code, Status Report 2018.’ | Many Aspects Enshrined | 2019 | Joint 13th | |
