Commitment

Increase AFD commitments for nutrition

Donor government / France

Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs

Commitment made: 08 Dec 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
Targeted location (aggregate)

Multi-country - Priority countries for nutrition according to France's 2019-2024 strategy are: Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Laos, Madagascar, Mali, Niger, République centrafricaine, Tchad.

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Commitment description

AFD funds projects in different nutrition cross-cutting fields such as: agriculture, health, WASH, education, etc. France international strategy on food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture sets the objective to attain, by 2024, 15% of all AFD commitments in 8 priority countries in the fields of health, agriculture and water, hygiene and sanitation which will contribute to nutrition and according to the OECD marker methodology.

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 Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires Etrangères (Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs), through Agence française de développement (French Development Agency)
Funding mechanism Public budget
Cost secured Depends of the annual approval of AFD budget and approval of AFD projects in concerned countries/sectors
Total costs estimated Not been estimated / unknown

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