CASH AND VOUCHER ASSISTANCE: 14 million children and their families supported with cash and voucher assistance to ensure families can invest in their children's wellbeing including by increasing access to nutritious foods, as well as preventative and treatment health and nutrition services
Description
With the overarching goal of positioning Save the Children as the leading actor in "Cash Plus for Child Outcomes", our target will be to increase our CVA portfolio as well as influence government led social protection schemes (eg child grants) to be more nutrition and child sensitive and more inclusive of children most affected by inequality and discrimination. Evidence shows that CVA is a powerful instrument to achieve positive child outcome especially when coupled with complementary interventions or access to services.
1. Support children and their families to improve and protect their livelihoods and investments in children, especially those most affected by climate change
2. Global evidence advanced on using cash and voucher assistance and climate resilient livelihoods for child outcomes and anticipatory action; with focus on gender equality
3. Increase global investment in cash-plus assistance, to meet immediate humanitarian needs and/or for shock-responsive and child-sensitive social protection
4. National or international policy, legal and budget decisions made to strengthen child-sensitive social protection systems, including transitioning from humanitarian CVA in fragile and/or conflict affected contexts
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Healthy Start & Resilient Families
Description
In line with Save the Children’s 2022-2024 strategy, our Healthy Start in Life ambition will, by 2024, contribute to 130+ million children having equitable access to and using quality essential health and nutrition services. In addition, by 2024 we will contribute to 14m+ million children annually being lifted out of poverty.
In support of this ambition, with focus on nutrition, we will: deliver the following goals/outcomes
1. CHILD NUTRITION: 105 million children in 40+ countries receive support to prevent and treat under-nutrition
2. ACCOUNTABLE INSTITUTIONS: 40 governments and global actors make policy, legal, system or public investment (towards 5% of GDP) changes to meet children’s right to health and nutrition
3. RESILIENT LIVELIHOODS: 14M+ children and their families receive livelihoods support and/or cash and voucher assistance
GNR assessment
Verification status |
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 | Number of children supported with livelihood and resilience programming. |
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Value | Measurement date | |
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Baseline | 9,500,000 children | 2020 |
Target | 14,000,000 children | December 2024 |
Progress
Value | Measurement date | |
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Progress report | 17,400,000 children | December 2023 |