Frequently Asked Questions: Progress reporting on nutrition commitments

Before logging in, you may wish to review the offline (PDF) copy of the survey, the offline (PDF) copy of the instruction guide and the online (web) version of the instruction guide, to prepare your answers before you log in. Note the asterisk (*) appearing by some questions to indicate which questions are required.

Log into the Nutrition Accountability Framework (NAF) with the user ID (an email address) and password you used when submitting your commitment(s) into the NAF. Please use the ‘forgot your password’ feature to reset the password, if needed.

Once you are logged in, the system may navigate to the ‘Manage Account’ section by default and ask you to review the users for your organisation and make any necessary changes.

Click ‘Commitments’ in the top-right corner of your screen. You will see a list of your commitments. For each commitment, you will click the three dots in the top-right corner of the tile and select ‘Report Progress’ to submit progress on each commitment. Note that the option to ‘Report Progress’ is not available for commitments that are Reached by End Date, Reached after End Date, Withdrawn or Superseded.

Only by submitting through the online form will your information be able to be included in the NAF.

Though we provide instructions in other languages, the online form should be completed in English, if possible. Completing the online form in English will allow you to maintain ownership over how the information is translated. If that is not possible, the GNR will use software to translate your response and cannot be responsible for translation accuracy.

Commitment makers are encouraged to submit progress reports as soon as possible. We ask that reports are submitted by 30 April. Reporting as early as possible allows more time for us to consider your responses and get back to you with any questions.

For those reporting after the April deadline, we may not be able to include your reports in the aggregated data and summaries that we provide to other stakeholders.

However, we may still be able to add your progress report to the NAF online if it is received before we post individual reports online.

Please complete as much as you can of your reports on the timeline indicated, and then email [email protected] if you find that it is not possible to meet the timeline. For those who have started and been in communication, we may be able to find flexibility in the reporting period.

The electronic survey is filled once for each commitment. Once you log in, you will see a “Report Progress” option for each commitment. Note that the option to ‘Report Progress’ is not available for commitments that are Reached by End Date, Reached after End Date, Withdrawn or Superseded.

We would be grateful if you would share on social media, email your colleagues our web links or speak to your peers about the tools. These include the offline (PDF) copy of the survey, the offline (PDF) copy of the instruction guide and the online (web) version of the instruction guide.

Though the GNR emailed commitment makers and those on our general email list, due to factors such as turnover, we need the community’s support to reach everyone. Please help us share these tools onwards!

Commitment titles and descriptions were reviewed for clarity and consistency as part of our verification process. When significant changes were required, we worked with the commitment maker to edit the commitment title and description. For some commitments, we made minor changes for clarity, consistency, spelling and grammar. Verified commitments from 2025 were also professionally proofread. If you see any edit that changes the meaning, please indicate this in Section 1 of the form.

As mentioned in the guide (instructions), you will only be presented with questions relevant to you, so these sections must not require responses based on your responses so far:

Section 4 is about why progress has not been assessed since baseline, or since the last round of commitment progress tracking. You will skip this section if you indicate that you have assessed progress.

Some commitments have short timelines. There are commitments that were registered in 2025 that have already reached their end date, and commitment makers may be ready to report. All commitment makers, regardless of their commitment registration date, follow the same progress reporting cycle.

Please do your best to answer in a way you are comfortable with.

Example 1: Our target was to have a certain number of sites using a tool, but we do not know how many sites there are, and so we do not know our denominator.

Response: we would recommend defining “site” as best as possible and report against that definition, or to define the geographic locations and report the number of geographic areas which they know are/are not using the tool. Once a decision is made, use that consistently.

Example 2: We are reporting on an impact commitment, but there’s no new national or subnational data to rely on to see if things have progressed; what should we do?

Response: Though we often as a community rely on Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, Demographic Health Surveys or similar, it is common that new data is not available between when a commitment is made and when progress reporting is requested. You could indicate that no updated data is available, or you could make your best estimate based on similar information that is available, such as a project survey done for a province that is usually typical for the country’s indicators.

If you have truly reached your registered target, and that is reported into the NAF, the commitment will be labelled as such, and you will not be able to continue reporting on the commitment in sequential rounds.

We hope that if you have fulfilled that commitment, you may wish to make more in the future.

If the commitment’s period has not ended or if the target has not been reached, then a year from now (at the earliest), you will be asked to report again. However, please note that the request may come later, considering commitment maker bandwidth to report and available resources.

Any commitments registered in the NAF for N4G Paris are on the same reporting cycle with the existing commitments from N4G Tokyo, but the community will understand if commitments from 2025 have not progressed as much as those from Tokyo.

If you registered commitments in 2025 (N4G Paris commitments and non-N4G commitments), you were likely contacted in 2025 and 2026 to clarify your commitments for the NAF. This is the first time we have asked commitment makers to report progress on the commitments registered in 2025.

This is the second time we are asking commitment makers who registered commitments for N4G Tokyo to report progress in the NAF. 2024 was the most recent progress reporting cycle.

Though anyone can access any NAF-registered commitment online, due to data privacy laws, we cannot allow a consultant or other member of a team access to the commitment maker’s account, nor are we able to generally share email addresses of system users with those making enquiries. However, the NAF platform now allows commitment makers to set up multiple users from their organisation. This feature is available to users who are signed into the NAF and allows them to invite an additional user. We are also happy to receive requests to update account information. Users are also permitted to share their own login information as needed to make commitments or report progress.

Thank you for your interest! We recommend you review the tools from commitment-making for the last N4G Summit or from when the NAF was initiated and the information on the NAF regarding what makes a SMART commitment. You might then review the progress reporting tools, even if you are not reporting progress now, so that you can consider how to structure your upcoming commitment to make it easy to report on in the future. If you formulate your commitment now, you are welcome to submit it now.

If you have previously submitted a commitment into the NAF, please report your progress into the NAF according to the tools provided. The NAF is the widely endorsed, clearer and more efficient iteration of the way GNR has been tracking commitments since 2014; the community is counting on all commitment makers to report their progress into the NAF.

Qualitative and quantitative information may both be posted. We suggest only providing the information the commitment maker accepts to have posted. We hope that you will consider sharing, because the information about barriers is meant to support mutual learning amongst commitment makers, to offer understanding about the challenges we each face.

If you would rather it not be shared, we would recommend that you do not submit it to us. If you have already submitted and would rather not share, please be in touch to ask for a link to revise your submission.

This material may not be the main subject of the next GNR thematic report but is certainly to be uploaded to the NAF Commitment Tracker in mid/late 2026.

The 2024 commitment progress tracking cycle was the first time commitments were tracked in the NAF. After we assessed the data, we developed and shared a summary report, Progress Towards the Global Nutrition Targets.

You will not automatically receive a copy of your responses right after submission. However, you can download a copy of your responses through by selecting the ‘see progress history’ option in the NAF account. We will also share the progress assessment data back to each commitment maker (with a very short time window in which to confirm or request adjustment) prior to posting online.

The GNR advises you to complete the online progress survey in one sitting once started for a specific commitment, as the form may not save while in progress. But once you submit the progress report for that commitment, if you have other commitments to complete, they can be completed at another time. To assist with the preparation of the information required, you can download the form and/or the guide in PDF format here.

Please do let us know at [email protected], but if you have time before we can respond, you might try to:

• Clear browser cache and cookies
• Update browser
• Try it in incognito/private mode
• Try a different device (e.g. smartphone vs. computer)
• Ty a different internet connection (home vs. office)
• Disable content-blocking extensions or plug-ins
• Disable VPN or proxy temporarily
• Check security software.

If you believe that you made an error in a submission, please contact us at [email protected] and share your name, organisation and part of the title of the commitment, so that we can locate it and create a link for you to edit your response. If we do this, we ask that you please be sure not to share the link with anyone else, as they could inadvertently edit your submission. Please note that any changes to the form will automatically overwrite the original submission.

Please contact us at [email protected] to inform us of the name under which the commitment was made, the new company and if you would like the name updated. We would keep the old name for reference, but we can make the change, for example: New Name (formerly Old Name, or formerly part of Old Name).

A given email address can only be used on one account, so you would need to use different email addresses for each entity whose commitments you manage.