The National Population and Family Planning Agency (BKKBN) and five ministries are formulating guidelines for the operational mechanism for accelerating stunting reduction up to the neighborhood level.
“This operational mechanism can mobilize all personnel in the field, where there are components of stakeholders in regions, to unite in driving programs at the village level,” head of BKKBN, Hasto Wardoyo, informed in a written statement issued here on Tuesday.
He said that the guidelines are being formulated with the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Villages, Development of Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration, the Ministry of Social Affairs, and the Ministry of Religious Affairs.
The stunting reduction guidelines are being formulated so that all personnel in the field can move dynamically and in an integrated manner, especially the Stunting Reduction Acceleration Teams (TPPS) that consist of midwives, Family Welfare Movement (PKK) cadres, and family planning cadres that are the main pillars in the field.
This is meant to support the achievement of the target of reducing stunting prevalence to 14 percent by 2024 soon.
“I hope there will also be integration among family assistants, village assistants, and other cadres under the coordination of TPPS, both in the districts and in the sub-districts, to the village level,” he said.
The BKKBN head further said that the guidelines must also emphasize the importance of data collection and auditing of stunting cases.
Those efforts will allow the identification of families at risk of stunting or prospective brides who want to get married but have the potential of giving birth to stunted children.
Director of Social, Cultural, and Environmental Development at the Ministry of Home Affairs Teguh Hadi Sulistiono said that his party will be responsible for helping villages ensure that families at risk of stunting receive services according to their needs.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Villages, Development of Disadvantaged Regions, and Transmigration has also expressed its willingness to realize the convergence of services in villages and support several pillars related to the targets that other ministries and institutions must achieve.
Source: Antara News