Sikasso creates multisector platform to coordinate malnutrition response
Sikasso officials and UNICEF representatives launched a regional coordination platform after a meeting cited survey figures showing 31% of under-five children stunted and 16% underweight. Officials also reported that stunting rose from 22.5% in 2023 to 34.1% in 2024.
Event / data period: 2026-10-03
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A multisectoral platform to coordinate nutrition interventions was established in Mali’s Sikasso region, according to an AMAP report published on 3 October. Regional officials, social-development services and UNICEF’s nutrition specialist discussed the scale of child malnutrition and the need to coordinate responses.
The report cited survey figures that 31% of children under five in the region were stunted, including 10% with severe stunting, while 16% were underweight. An official also said the prevalence of stunting had risen from 22.5% in 2023 to 34.1% in 2024, and acute malnutrition from 8.2% to 9.4% over the same period, including 1.1% severe acute malnutrition.
UNICEF’s regional nutrition specialist said the effort should help reduce acute malnutrition and sustain supplies of therapeutic foods and milk used to treat affected children. These figures are the values reported at the meeting; the article does not provide the underlying survey tables or sampling details.
Data
Child nutrition indicators in Sikasso
Survey and period-comparison rates cited at the meeting and reported by AMAP.
- Stunting, under age five
- 31 %
- 2026-10-03 · Observed
- Severe stunting, under age five
- 10 %
- 2026-10-03 · Observed
- Underweight, under age five
- 16 %
- 2026-10-03 · Observed
- Stunting prevalence
- 34.1 %
- 2024 · Observed
Methodology
Values are reproduced from AMAP’s account. It reports 31% for current stunting and 34.1% for 2024 in the same account; these may reflect different scope or reference periods.
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