World Vision commits to private fundraising and implementation of $500 million in this 5-year commitment period, for both nutrition direct, and nutrition sensitive programmes.

World Vision International commitment

As a child-focused organisation, World Vision refuses to accept the current status of child malnutrition globally. Malnutrition steals so many young children's lives, and diminishes lifelong potential for hundreds of millions more, with a disproportionate impact on girls in particular. World Vision commits to private fundraising and implementation of US$500 million in cash in this five-year commitment period, for both nutrition-direct and nutrition-sensitive programmes. Additionally, working closely with our bilateral and multilateral funding partners, we will manage the implementation of more than $700 million in nutrition grants.

We recognise the important interconnections between nutrition, gender equality, women's empowerment and child well-being. We are committed to advancing a transformational approach that shifts harmful gender norms and power dynamics across our nutrition programme strategy, design and implementation. We will continue to develop, scale up and promote the newly launched Gender-Transformative Framework for Nutrition for expanded use by nutrition practitioners. This game-changing framework will increase our collective ability to transform nutrition-related approaches, from household to global levels, which perpetuate gender inequality and malnutrition.

As we believe that child malnutrition should be prevented, we will leverage our broad community engagements and ministry of health partnerships in over 50 of the most vulnerable countries in the world to strengthen nutrition promotion and monitoring services. For example, we will leverage the 184,000 community health workers (CHWs) we currently support to reach the most vulnerable households with nutrition counselling, actively engaging women, men, youth and power holders. We will also work on empowering the CHWs themselves through the implementation of our Promoting Gender Responsive Policies and Programmes for CHWs: A Gender Analysis Framework.

Where underweight young children are identified, World Vision will reach over 40,000 per year with our Positive Deviance Hearth intervention, empowering care-givers with the knowledge and skills to identify and prepare nutritious foods available in their communities and promoting diet diversity and neglected and underutilised indigenous foods.

Unfortunately, we have a long way to go towards the elimination of young child wasting, this year taking steps backward with increasing incidence due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As such, World Vision commits to reaching over 120,000 children suffering from wasting per year with CMAM, ensuring a minimum threshold of 85% rehabilitation success. We will also support supplementary feeding for over 50,000 pregnant and lactating women per year. In alignment with advocacy with our partners engaged on the UN Global Action Plan on Child Wasting, we will advance the utilisation of CHWs to extend wasting treatment to the last, most-underserved miles. Working with our partners, we will continue to explore game-changing solutions to achieving full wasting coverage, such as through the identification of local alternatives to imported milk and peanut-based ready-to-use therapeutic foods. We will also employ a scaled implementation of family mid-upper arm circumference measurement in 20 countries.

World Vision recognises the intergenerational, gendered and cyclical nature of malnutrition and the imperative to address long-neglected nutrition needs of adolescents and women of reproductive age. In this next Nutrition for Growth period, we commit to supporting the increasing utilisation of noninvasive anaemia screening technologies, nutrition counselling and promotion for these youth, social accountability for adolescent inclusion in health systems and scale-up of multiple micronutrient supplementation. Improving nutrition for youth, and especially girls, requires a broader investment in developing their own self-efficacy, their own agency. Towards this end, World Vision will reach a substantial number of youth with our youth empowerment intervention, IMPACT+.

World Vision is proud to continue to co-lead the Global Nutrition Cluster Technical Alliance through 2023, alongside UNICEF, and to be a member of the Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Steering Committee, the UN Sustainable Development Goal 2 Hub Bridge group, the Global Breastfeeding Collective and the International Coalition for Advocacy on Nutrition. In addition to the aforementioned areas of our work, we will continue to prioritise advocacy for global adherence to the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes, for full ministry of health delivery of Essential Nutrition Actions and for the establishment of adequate nutrition human resource capacity in the countries that need it most.