CHILD NUTRITION: 105 million children in 50+ countries receive support to prevent and treat under-nutrition
Description
How will Save the Children address malnutrition?
• Invest and scale up programmes that protect, promote and support recommended adolescent, maternal, infant and young child nutrition.
• Engage and support integrated initiatives aimed at improving access to nutrition services and appropriate diets for women, adolescents and children, addressing all forms of malnutrition.
• Continue to drive scale-up of the prevention and management of malnutrition in emergency and development settings.
• Invest in innovations to prevent and treat malnutrition, continuing to pursue our research agenda.
• Recommit and deliver our investment to Nutrition for Growth and other nutrition-centred campaigns.
• Continue to support the learning programme around the Nourishing the Youngest and Resourcing Families for Better Nutrition Common Approaches (Save the Children guidance), and support broader nutrition learning and knowledge management.
• Protect and support food security, livelihoods and access to nutritious foods as it relates to climate change.
• Leverage Save the Children’s data and programmes (Cost of the Diet, Household Economy Approach), and monitor and evaluate the impact of climate change on children's health and nutrition (ahead of the 2026 UN Climate Change Conference and other global climate events, such as the Food Systems Summit).
• Establish a “famine task force” that will develop and drive famine prevention and intervention strategies.
• Continue to lead global impact on infant and young child feeding.
• Continue to invest in multisectoral solutions to address the underlying and contributing factors of undernutrition (eg, safe water, sanitation and hygiene; agriculture; maternal, newborn and child health; and early childhood development), in alignment with the humanitarian and development nexus.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Healthy Start and Resilient Families
Description
In line with Save the Children’s 2022–2024 strategy, the ambition of Healthy Start in Life is to contribute to 130+ million children having equitable access to and using high-quality essential health and nutrition services by 2024. In addition, by 2024, we will contribute to 14+ million children being lifted out of poverty annually.
In support of this ambition, with a focus on nutrition, we will deliver the following goals/outcomes:
• Child nutrition: 105 million children in 40+ countries receive support to prevent and treat undernutrition.
• Accountable institutions: 40 governments and global actors make policy, legal, system or public investment changes (towards 5% of gross domestic product) to meet children’s right to health and nutrition.
• Resilient livelihoods: 14+ million children and their families receive livelihood support and/or cash and voucher assistance.
GNR assessment
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Verified
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| SMARTness index |
High
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Details
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| Global nutrition target(s) |
Anaemia
Low birth weight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Policy >
Nutrition care services
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Total number of children in 40 countries who receive support to prevent and treat undernutrition |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 72,000,000 Children | 2020 |
| Target | 105,000,000 Children | December 2024 |
Progress
| Value | Measurement date | Status | |
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| Progress report | 66,000,000 children | December 2023 |
Off Course
Given the current trajectory, the target is off course to be met by the end date.
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