Commitment
By 2026, WHO will support governments' efforts to increase the effective coverage of effective obesity prevention and management actions.
Description
The action plans for this goal will be determined by WHO through consultations with partners and countries following the summit.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Accelerated actions to tackle obesity
Description
The World Health Organization commits over the next five years to accelerate actions to fight the obesity epidemic, with a focus on children and adolescents, through closing existing normative guidance gaps and supporting countries to strengthen capacities and increase access to Obesity Prevention and Management Services through primary health care and achieve the global obesity targets by 2030.
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Unverified
Find out more
|
|---|---|
| SMARTness index |
Upper moderate
Find out more
|
Details
| Target population characteristic |
|
|---|---|
| Global nutrition target(s) |
Childhood overweight
Adult obesity
|
| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Enabling >
Leadership and governance
Find out more
|
Measurement
| Key indicator | Number of countries with a national and sub-national Acceleration Plan to tackle the obesity epidemic |
|---|
| Value | Measurement date | |
|---|---|---|
| Baseline | 0 countries | 2021 |
| Target | 10 countries |
