| Targeted location (aggregate) |
Global - | WHO will work directly with national governments and partners to specify geographic coverage. Multi-country - WHO will work directly with national governments and partners to specify geographic coverage. |
|---|---|
| Verification status | Find out more |
Commitment 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.
Commitment goals
By 2022, WHO will develop the Obesity Action Acceleration Plan for obesity prevention and management and provide evidence-informed normative and operational guidance on health promotion and prevention and management of …
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Leadership and governance
- Goal SMARTness index: Upper moderate
By 2026, WHO will support governments' efforts to increase the effective coverage of effective obesity prevention and management actions.
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Leadership and governance
- Goal SMARTness index: Upper moderate
By 2026, WHO will improve monitoring and evaluation of country actions on obesity prevention and management.
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Leadership and governance
- Goal SMARTness index: Upper moderate
Global Nutrition Targets
Adult obesity
Under-5 overweight
Nutrition Action Classification across all goals
Enabling
- Financial
- Operational
- Leadership and governance
- Research monitoring and data
Policy
- Food environment
- Food supply chain
- Consumer knowledge
- Nutrition care services
Impact
- Undernutrition
- Diet
- Obesity and diet-related NCDs
- Food and nutrition security
N4G themes covered by goals
- Food
- Health
- Resilience
- Data
- Financing
Total funding and costs across all goals
| Funders | This is a programmatic commitment. Costs for individual staff level of effort will be covered individually by WHO |
|---|---|
| Funding mechanism | Not provided |
| Cost secured | Not provided |
| Total costs estimated | Not been estimated / unknown |
