| Targeted location (aggregate) |
Multi-country - We will look to work directly with national governments to specify geographic coverage. Countries are still in the process of … |
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| Verification status | Verified Find out more |
Commitment description
The U.S. Agency for International Development is joining the World Health Organization and UNICEF in a strategic partnership over the next five years to improve nutrition and health outcomes for mothers and newborns by scaling up quality breastfeeding promotion and support. Through this partnership, USAID, WHO, and UNICEF will provide technical assistance to at least 10 governments and local organizations, to support a country-led, comprehensive approach to increasing access to skilled breastfeeding counselling support at community and facility level.
Commitment goals
By 2026, increase access to skilled lactation support at the facility and community level
- Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Nutrition care services
- Goal SMARTness index: Lower moderate
By 2026, improve monitoring and evaluation of breastfeeding promotion and support
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Research monitoring and data
- Goal SMARTness index: Lower moderate
By 2026, scale up implementation of Ten Steps as part of national standards of care for all maternity and newborn services
- Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Nutrition care services
- Goal SMARTness index: Lower moderate
Global Nutrition Targets
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 | This is a programmatic commitment. Costs for individual staff level of effort will be covered individually by USAID, WHO and UNICEF. |
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| Funding mechanism | Public |
| Cost secured | The costs are secured through staff level of effort. An cost of this programmatic commitment has not been estimated. |
| Total costs estimated | Not been estimated / unknown |
