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BackgroundThere is an urgent need to carry out a costing exercise of the National Plan of Action for Nutrition (NPAN) 2017–2020 since the costing of nutrition-sensitive interventions was not entirely integrated and proved difficult to track the different sectors' contributions to the nutrition program.ObjectiveTo estimate the required budget for the activities of the NPAN in 2017–2020.MethodsA standard ingredients approach activity-based costing was employed from the provider perspective.ResultsThe budget amount required for the NPAN activities in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 would be US$ million 269.0; 310.5; 350.2 and 378.1, respectively. State budgets (especially from Ministry of Health) would be the main funding source for the NPAN. The budget required for implementing nutrition-sensitive interventions would be the largest share (more than 90%) while less than 10% are required for nutrition-specific interventions. The four interventions requiring the largest budget proportion (in 2020) included 1) Micronutrient supplementation (28.3%); 2) Breastfeeding & complementary feeding (21.9%); 3) Treatment of severe acute malnutrition (15.6%); and 4) Disease prevention and management (13.4%).ConclusionsBased on the data from Vietnam National Health account and the data on GDP of Vietnam, the total required budget for the Vietnam NPAN 2017 (USD millions 5,082) as shares of the State budget for health, total State (Government) budget, and GDP would be 5.29%, 0.49% and 0.14%, respectively. From the estimation, Vietnam represents the nutrition strategy which prioritized on nutrition-sensitive actions, similar to most of the SUN Movement member countries.

Title Management of Acute Malnutrition Consultant Purpose To provide technical assistance in updating and implementing Viet Nam's Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition Guidelines in line with the 2013 WHO Guideline Update and latest evidence for Management of Acute Malnutrition in Infants Location Viet Nam and remote support Duration 15 days (Viet Nam: 8 days; Country of residence: 7 days) Start Date 1 October 2014 Reporting to Nutrition Specialist, Child Survival and Development Section Background With around 2 million children under 5 years of age with stagnated height for their age (27 per cent), Viet Nam is among the countries in the world with the highest burden of stunting. The Central Highlands and Northern Midlands and Mountainous areas, where most ethnic minority groups live, are geographical zones with the highest prevalence. The H'mong people have the highest prevalence among the ethnic groups with 55 per cent of their children being stunted followed by Bana with 53 per cent.