Commitment

Prevention & treatment of child wasting

International organisation / United States of America

UNICEF

Commitment made: 30 Oct 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
Targeted location (aggregate)

Multi-country - 30 countries with the highest burden of wasting. Please see list of countries from the Global Action Plan on Child …

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Commitment description

UNICEF’s organizational commitment is to lead global efforts to support national and sub-national governments with the design, implementation and monitoring of policies, strategies and programmes for the prevention, early detection and treatment of child wasting, in all contexts. Through No Time to Waste, UNICEF’s organizational initiative in support to the Global Action Plan on Child Wasting, UNICEF will support over 30 countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas to reach at least 100 million children with services for the prevention, early detection and treatment of child wasting, including at least 9 million children receiving timely therapeutic treatment annually by 2025.

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 Amounts pledged during UNGA high-level event on Child Malnutrition Crisis - total pledged $569,275,000 to UNICEF and other organizations.
Funding mechanism Bilaterals (public), Foundations (private), Individuals (private)
Cost secured $569,275,000 pledged
Total costs estimated Yes, and the amount publicly disclosed
Currency (USD) - United States dollar
Cost amount 1,200,000,000.0
$USD equivalent 1,200,000,000.0 (World Bank average exchange rate for 2021)

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