Commitment

Australian Government Nutrition Pledge

Donor government / Australia

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Commitment made: 06 Dec 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
Targeted location (aggregate)

Multi-country - Pacific Region; South East Asia Region.

National -

Verification status Verified Find out more

Commitment description

Australia pledges to continue progressing a multisectoral approach to address both under and over nutrition in our region. Australia will continue to report annually on our nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive development assistance expenditure and to develop guidance to support enhanced consideration of nutrition across development assistance programming to address the full spectrum of nutrition challenges.

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 The Australian Government
Funding mechanism Public Funding - Government
Cost secured Not available
Total costs estimated Not been estimated / unknown

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