Commitment

Healthy Start & Resilient Families

Civil Society Organisation / United Kingdom

Save the Children International

Commitment made: 05 Nov 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
Targeted location (aggregate)

Global - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, DRC, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, Mali, Mozambique, Somalia, Uganda and Yemen | We will deliver on …

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Commitment description

In line with Save the Children’s 2022-2024 strategy, our Healthy Start in Life ambition will, by 2024, contribute to 130+ million children having equitable access to and using quality essential health and nutrition services. In addition, by 2024 we will contribute to 14m+ million children annually being lifted out of poverty.

In support of this ambition, with focus on nutrition, we will: deliver the following goals/outcomes

1. CHILD NUTRITION: 105 million children in 40+ countries receive support to prevent and treat under-nutrition

2. ACCOUNTABLE INSTITUTIONS: 40 governments and global actors make policy, legal, system or public investment (towards 5% of GDP) changes to meet children’s right to health and nutrition

3. RESILIENT LIVELIHOODS: 14M+ children and their families receive livelihoods support and/or cash and voucher assistance

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 - Gates - GSK - UNILEVER - Kadoorie Charitable Foundation - Doherty Institute - Gates Foundation - Rotary Club of Adelaide - Local fund-raising Phillipines - Sponsorship Phillipines - Give2Asia, J&J Philippines - Cargill, Wrigley, Cardinal Health - Mondelez India Foods limited - Knorr-Bremse - Oracle - Herbalife - ECHO - INTPA (European Trust Fund for Africa) - Japan Platform - World Bank - UNOPS, UNOCHA, DEVCO, UNICEF International Development and Humanitarian Ministries associated with UK, US, Italy, France, Japan Denmark, Spain, Philippines, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Korea Australia, Canada, India and Ireland nation states
Funding mechanism Private, corporates, public restricted and UN, National Ministries of International Development, as well as Save the Children unrestricted funding.
Cost secured The proportion of secured funding held in the current total of $493m is 83%.
Total costs estimated Yes, and the amount publicly disclosed
Currency (USD) - United States dollar
Cost amount 493,000,000.0
$USD equivalent 493,000,000.0 (World Bank average exchange rate for 2021)

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