Commitment

Financial Commitment to Nutrition

Donor organisation / United States of America

King Philanthropies

Commitment made: 28 Oct 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
Targeted location (aggregate)

Multi-country - Geographic areas may include Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia
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Commitment description

King Philanthropies commits to an additional $100M in grants or investments over 7 years (2021-2027) to support nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions. In 2017, King Philanthropies made a $33M commitment at the Nutrition for Growth Summit in Milan that we fulfilled and exceeded, disbursing $37M in nutrition-related grants by 2020.

Commitment goals

King Philanthropies is committed to spending $100M on nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions over seven years.

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Financial
  • Goal SMARTness index: High

Global Nutrition Targets

Anaemia
Under-5 stunting
Under-5 wasting
Low birthweight
Exclusive breastfeeding

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 King Philanthropies
Funding mechanism Private
Cost secured Total costs are partially secured
Total costs estimated Yes, and the amount publicly disclosed
Currency (USD) - United States dollar
Cost amount 100,000,000.0
$USD equivalent 100,000,000.0 (World Bank average exchange rate for 2021)

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