CHILD NUTRITION: 105 million children in 50+ countries receive support to prevent and treat under-nutrition
Description
How will Save the Children address malnutition?
Invest and scale-up programs that protect, promote and support recommended adolescent, maternal, infant and young child nutrition
Engage and support integrated initiatives aiming 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-centered campaigns
Continue to support the learning program 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 programges (Cost of the Diet, HEA) monitor and evaluate impact of climate change on children's health and nutrition (ahead of COP26 and other global climate events (Food Systems Summit)
By establishing a ‘famine taskforce’ that will develop and drive famine prevention and intervention strategy
Continue to lead global impact on Infant and Young Child Feeding
Continue to invest in multi-sectoral solutions to address the underlying and contributing factors of undernutrition such as WASH, agriculture, MNCH and ECD, also in alignment with the humanitarian and development nexus
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 | Total number of children in 40 countries who receive support to prevent and treat under-nutrition |
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| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 72,000,000 children | 2020 |
| Target | 105,000,000 children | December 2024 |
Progress
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Progress report | 66,000,000 children | December 2023 |
