Commitment

advocacy for government healthy foods

Civil Society Organisation / Malawi

Act4FoodAct4Change

Commitment made: 13 Dec 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit | 2021 UN Food Systems Summit
Targeted location (aggregate)

Global - The commitments is made on behalf of a global youth led movement Act4Food Act4Change that has 30 youth leaders and …
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Commitment description

Supporting the government's efforts in ensuring healthy low-cost food is a human right for citizens through advocacy for government subsidies for healthy food and penalizing food companies for targeting low-income citizens with unhealthy food.

Commitment goals

ensuring healthy low-cost food is a human right

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Leadership and governance
  • Goal SMARTness index: Lower moderate

Global Nutrition Targets

Anaemia
Under-5 stunting
Under-5 wasting
Adult obesity
Adult diabetes
Under-5 overweight
Low birthweight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Salt/sodium intake

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 Food Foundation and Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
Funding mechanism Private
Cost secured 30% of total funds
Total costs estimated Not been estimated / unknown

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