Sec. 5. Implementation plan
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Not later than 260 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator, in coordination with other relevant Federal departments and agencies, shall develop and submit to the appropriate congressional committees an implementation plan to prevent and treat global malnutrition and carry out the activities authorized under section 2. The implementation plan required under subsection
(a)shall— establish specific and measurable goals, objectives, and performance metrics towards prevention and treatment of global malnutrition, including clear benchmarks and intended timelines for achieving such goals and objectives; establish baseline measurements and time-bound targets for increasing coverage of key nutrition interventions in priority countries, which may include scaling up to— 80-percent coverage for— vitamin A (to be measured by the proportion of children 6 to 59 months old receiving 2 high-dose vitamin A supplements in a given year); prenatal vitamins (measured by the proportion of pregnant women who received multiple micronutrient supplementation daily); and breastfeeding (as measured by proportion of mothers of children between 0 and 5 months of age reached by promotion of breastfeeding activities); and 50-percent coverage for treatment of wasting (as measured by the proportion of children 6 to 59 months with severe acute malnutrition receiving therapeutic feeding treatment); require monitoring and evaluation plans for all nutrition programs and activities, as appropriate; in countries that were selected as priority countries, ensure that nutrition is adequately addressed within the Country Development Cooperation Strategy to the extent practicable and identify opportunities to expand efforts to prevent and treat malnutrition, including through leveraging existing health and development programs and other ongoing activities; and require all USAID grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements for the purposes of the treatment or prevention of severe malnutrition to include targets for increased coverage of high-impact nutrition interventions, including the establishment of baseline measurements from which to quantify progress. The implementation plan required under this section shall be developed in consultation with, as appropriate, representatives of nongovernmental organizations, including faith-based organizations, civil society groups, multilateral organizations and donors, relevant private, academic, and philanthropic entities, and the appropriate congressional committees.