Broker and strengthen global policy on wasting with multiple stakeholders.
Description
Ireland’s commitment to strengthening global policy and action on wasting is delivered through leadership and active engagement with the “Wasting re-set” and the Global Action Plan on Child Wasting, promoting a focus on wasting in the Food Systems pre-Summit (with Ministerial participation at the wasting side event), the Food Systems Summit (where the President of Ireland’s national statement outlined Ireland’s commitment to tackling wasting) and the African Union’s Year of Nutrition 2022.
Ireland will continue to build on this foundation by working with other members states, partners and key stakeholders in supporting global progress on wasting, specifically through the Global Action Plan. This will include focusing on areas such as finance, prevention, advocacy, technical programming, policies, guidelines and products. Through committing to the Zero Hunger Coalition and seeking global spaces to advance both the knowledge of and commitment to tackling wasting, Ireland will continue to be a frontrunner in this space.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
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Leadership and programming on the prevention and treatment of child wasting with a specific commitment of $US50 million over 3 years.
Description
At N4G, Ireland pledged support for innovative programming approaches for the prevention and treatment of wasting, with a particular focus on tackling wasting for children from 0 to 6 months of age. Zero hunger is the ultimate test of an effective sustainable food system. Wasting is the most visible form of malnutrition and carries the highest risk of death. Some 45 million children under 5 years of age currently suffer from wasting. This commitment positioned Ireland to take a leadership role on the issue of wasting globally, backed up by programming targetted at small and nutritionally at-risk infants and children. Ireland's leadership was demonstrated with an additional commitment made in November 2022, of US$50 million over three years.
GNR assessment
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Withdrawn
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| SMARTness index |
Lower moderate
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Details
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| Global nutrition target(s) |
Low birth weight
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Enabling >
Leadership and governance
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Number of areas with progress in the Scale-Up Wasting Working Group |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
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| Baseline | Status of 6 areas as developed by the Scale Up Wasting Working Group. | 2021 |
| Target | 6 Areas | December 2026 |
Progress
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| Progress report | Ireland’s Official Development Assistance budget in 2023 delivered on commitments for child wasting. Ireland’s new partnerships and policy on nutrition, and particularly child wasting, are in alignment with the Global Action Plan. In September 2022 in New York, Ireland pledged an additional €50 million over three years for the fight to end child wasting, in cooperation with UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO) and others. This WHO partnership programme, implemented in 2023, will advance the delivery of Ireland’s commitments at the UN Food Systems Summit 2021, and more specifically will provide substantial input for Ireland’s pledge at the UN General Assembly 2022 to tackle child wasting (€50 million over three years). In 2023 we allocated the first €2 million grant to WHO, which complements the larger €10 million grant to UNICEF, to reduce the prevalence of child wasting and increase the coverage of prevention and treatment services. This supports their joint efforts in implementing the UN Global Action Plan on Child Wasting. Our partnership with WHO and UNICEF is focusing on 10 priority countries: Burkina Faso, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria and South Sudan. It is also supporting Concern Worldwide in implementing an innovative programme over three years, totalling €15 million in the Horn of Africa, with a focus on preventing child wasting in the most vulnerable communities and households. The budget explicitly aligns programme performance indicators and outcomes with the Global Action Plan. However, the focus is no longer limited to 0–6 months of age and prioritises nutrition for at-risk infants and children. | December 2023 |
Progress not able to be assessed
Despite the commitment maker’s active participation in the process, they were unable to provide the required information about the baseline data or the progress indicator's updated (latest) level or status, or the data provided were not in a format allowing calculation of progress.
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