Commitment

COVID-19: Women and Child Nutrition

Civil Society Organisation / United States of America

The Micronutrient Forum

Commitment made: 27 Oct 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
Targeted location (aggregate)

Global - The target audience will be governments, implementing agencies, donors, philanthropic organisations and multi-laterals in order to reach affected populations, particularly …

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Commitment description

The MNF commits, with the Standing Together For Nutrition Consortium, to generate a policy-relevant gender framework, highlighting the differential impacts of COVID-19 on women and children's nutrition by 2022. The primary indicator will be the development of a framework with evidence to support advocacy for funding relating to COVID-19 mitigation and recovery. The target audience will be governments, implementing agencies, donors, philanthropic organisations, and multi-laterals to reach affected populations, particularly women and children.

Global Nutrition Targets

Anaemia
Under-5 stunting
Under-5 wasting

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 Department of Global Affairs Canada
Funding mechanism Government donor (public)
Cost secured 100%
Total costs estimated Yes, and the amount disclosed to GNR only

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