NAF Commitment Progress Tracking

The Nutrition Accountability Framework (NAF) is the world’s independent and comprehensive platform for registering and monitoring SMART commitments for nutrition action. Commitment progress tracking is a critical component of the NAF, enhancing accountability and transparency; enabling faster, more efficient, effective and real-world adaptations; and further driving action.

To do this, the GNR periodically asks nutrition commitment-makers to report against their commitments in the NAF. This commitment tracking provides granularity and a big-picture view of the progress commitment-makers are achieving towards a world free from malnutrition.

This is a new stage in nutrition accountability, building on a decade of efforts to support reporting on nutrition commitment progress. These efforts include the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) commitment tracking between 2013 and 2020, which aimed to provide evidence on commitments made at Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summits and drive faster and fairer progress.

The NAF commitment tracking is an evolution of these efforts. It is unique in equally centring all stakeholders—whether governments, donors, multilateral organisations, civil society organisations, private sector, or academia—and providing them a standardised way to present their nutrition commitments and their progress. It ensures that all nutrition commitments can be captured and monitored consistently and transparently.

Not only does NAF commitment tracking provide critical insight on the nutrition action landscape, but it also ultimately keeps stakeholders accountable for achieving the Global Nutrition Targets set out by the World Health Assembly, the targets of the WHO Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases, and the wide range of nutrition-related Sustainable Development Goal targets.

The NAF Commitment Tracker provides data on nutrition action monitoring. Every actor—including and beyond commitment-makers—has a unique responsibility in this complex landscape. Only by having contributions accounted for, monitored and reported on, can we deliver the change that people across the world need and deserve, to end malnutrition in all its forms.

Below are resources provided for and from the 2024 commitment progress tracking process. Over 200 commitment-makers were invited—and over half of them responded—to report progress on achieving their commitments. The outputs provide useful information about who submitted, challenges in assessing indicators, the results achieved, equity considerations and barriers—as well as constraints and opportunities—to achieving commitments.