Commitment

Prevention and treatment of wasting

Donor government / United States of America

USAID

Commitment made: 03 Dec 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
Targeted location (aggregate)

Global - The focus will be on USAID Nutrition Priority Countries (https://www.usaid.gov/nutrition/countries) | Focus on low- and middle-income countries, women of reproductive …

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Commitment description

Strengthen USAID’s strategic approach to the prevention and treatment of wasting, with an aim to address the significant burden of wasting in non-emergency contexts in alignment with the Global Action Plan for Child Wasting (GAP).

Global Nutrition Targets

Under-5 wasting

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 only. The costs associated with level of effort for staff either during the development of the sub-strategy or supporting missions to identify pathways for scaling up their wasting programming will be covered by USAID.
Funding mechanism Self-funded
Cost secured 100% of staff costs for this year have been funded to work towards this commitment. Funding (as with the other commitments) is subject to annual appropriations
Total costs estimated Not been estimated / unknown

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