Commitment

Improve nutrition and diets

International organisation / Italy

United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

Commitment made: 29 Oct 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
Targeted location (aggregate)

Multi-country - WFP delivers food assistance in emergencies and works with communities to improve nutrition and improve access to healthy diets in …

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Commitment description

WFP commits to increasing the proportion of people reached through programs that aim to increase access to and consumption of healthy diets, from 40% of total beneficiaries reached in 2020 to 80% in 2025.

As part of this, WFP commits to increasing the number of pregnant and lactating women and girls (PLWG) and children under 5 covered by malnutrition prevention and treatment programs each year, from 17 million in 2020 to 25 million in 2025.

WFP also commits to supporting additional 35 national governments by 2025 - on top of the 36 countries as of 2021 - with the use of the Fill the Nutrient Gap and ENHANCE analytical tools, which help identify the barriers faced by the most vulnerable to accessing and consuming healthy diets. These analytics will be used to inform policy and programming, and build public-private partnerships in sectors that can contribute to improving diets and ultimately nutrition outcomes - such as social protection, health, agriculture, education and others.

Global Nutrition Targets

Anaemia
Under-5 stunting
Under-5 wasting
Adult obesity
Adult diabetes
Under-5 overweight
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 Total costs are expected to be covered by forecasted funding flows coming from WFP's top donors - confidential information
Funding mechanism Mostly public, with contributions from the private sector
Cost secured Confidential information
Total costs estimated Yes, and not willing to disclose the amount

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