| Targeted location (aggregate) |
Multi-country - Focus on low- and middle-income countries, countries with a high-burden of wasting Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, DRC, Ethiopia, … |
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| Verification status | Verified Find out more |
Commitment description
WHO and UNICEF commit to working with the 23 front runner GAP (Global Action Plan for Wasting) countries to produce updated context-specific nutrition policies and treatment protocols covering the prevention and treatment of wasting, which are integrated within the national health system.
These context-specific nutrition policy and guidance pieces will build on global operational guidance produced by WHO and UNICEF as a follow-on to the WHO guideline development process on the prevention and treatment of wasting.
The process to produce these context-specific nutrition policies and prevention/treatment protocols will see direct UNICEF and WHO support, to engage with national governments in a participatory and needs-based approach for the productive co-creation of products that will truly help policy-makers, programmers and health care workers deliver the most efficient, appropriate and acceptable care for wasted children and their families and make sure these are integrated within the existing health system.
Built into the development of these guidance pieces will be mechanisms to collect feedback on how useful, feasible and effective they were for the programmers and health care workers using them on a daily basis. This information, collected by national governments, will then be used in a joint effort with UNICEF and WHO to close an audit loop after one year to determine if and how improvements and updates need to be made to further enhance the impact and results of these context-specific nutrition policy and guidance pieces
Global Nutrition Targets
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 | Eleanor Crook Foundation, Children's Investment Fund Foundation, USAID/BHA, FCDO |
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| Funding mechanism | Private and Public |
| Cost secured | 50% secured |
| Total costs estimated | Yes, and the amount disclosed to GNR only |
