About Stunting
The Indonesian government recognizes the urgency of addressing stunting and has set ambitious targets for its reduction. The 2023 Indonesia Primary Health Research (Riskesdas) shows progress, with the prevalence decreasing from 30.8% in 2018 to 21.5% in 2023. The government continues to be committed to further reducing stunting rates.
Through the SIGAP program, Tanoto Foundation contributes to these efforts by supporting the government’s initiatives at both national and sub-national levels. At the national level, the Foundation helps implement various nationwide stunting prevention and reduction programs. At the sub-national level, Tanoto Foundation supports several provincial and district governments in promoting cross-sectoral program convergence and implementing behavior change communication (BCC) strategies.
These initiatives involve collaboration with local government, development partners, implementing partners, and local organizations. Tanoto Foundation ensures consistent implementation, monitoring, and evaluation to measure progress and reinforce a collective effort toward achieving national stunting reduction targets.
In partnership with UNICEF, Tanoto Foundation launched a four-year program titled Unlocking Future Potential with Nutrition: Towards Zero Stunting, aimed at supporting the Government of Indonesia in tackling stunting across the country.
Since 2021, the program has used a Social and Behavior Change Communication strategy to target malnutrition in Central Java and South Sulawesi. It supports pregnant women, caregivers, and families to ensure proper nutrition and promote optimal child development during the first 1,000 days of life, with the ultimate goal of preventing stunting.
The first phase of the program produced an operating guideline for provincial governments to assist, supervise, and evaluate the district governments in the SBCC program implementation.
The second phase, which commenced in 2022 and is running until 2025, is focused on providing technical assistance to the Central Java and South Sulawesi Provinces in implementing SBCC strategy and programs at their respective districts.
The Impact*
- Over 15 million people impacted
- Over 4.5 million pregnant women and caregivers impacted
- Over 10.000 health workers and community volunteers trained
- 28 districts assisted
*as of 2024
Tracking Early Childhood Development
Beyond reducing stunting, Tanoto Foundation and UNICEF have supported the Government of Indonesia since 2020 in improving Early Childhood Education and Development (ECED). This collaboration focuses on adapting international standards to the Indonesian context and assessing children’s physical, cognitive, linguistic, and social-emotional development.
With a grant from Tanoto Foundation, UNICEF has developed two customized assessment tools—the Caregiver Reported Early Development Index (CREDI) and the Early Childhood Development Index (ECDI)—which can be adapted as measurement instruments for early childhood development in Indonesia.
Through a grant to the World Bank’s Multi Donor Trust Fund (MDTF), in which donors pool resources to address specific societal challenges and enhance capacity to deliver development results, Tanoto Foundation supports the Government of Indonesia’s national strategy in accelerating stunting prevalence reduction and implementing a multi-year, multimillion-dollar Investing in Nutrition and Early Years program in Indonesia.
Launched in 2020 and extended to 2029, the MDTF for Indonesia Human Capital Acceleration (IHCA) initiative supports the government’s National Strategy to Accelerate Stunting Prevention (StraNas Stunting) through policy support and the World Bank’s Investing in Nutrition and Early Years (INEY) program. It also
focuses on improving the quality of learning outcomes in schools and addressing regional inequalities in human capital development.
The IHCA-MDTF’s main goals are to establish strong leadership, improve the quality of spending on national and local programs, improve sector and local performance, and empower citizen engagement in the frontline service delivery. To achieve this development objective, the World Bank provides programmatic policy, advisory, analytics and technical support to realize the government’s vision to improve human capital results.
Impact*
- 12 government policies were informed and shaped by knowledge generated from MDTF-supported activities
- 11 knowledge products were produced, including technical guidelines, presentations, analytical reports, and technical analyses
- Over 41,000 health and development workers were trained using MDTF-supported modules — also on track to reach the 2027 target
Highlights*
- USD 10M families engaged
- USD 3M Tanoto Foundation funding
- USD 7.61M Gates Foundation funding
- USD 1.3M GAVI funding
- EU 624,000 KfW German Development Bank funding
- USD 11.86M funding leverage