| Targeted location (aggregate) |
Global - Global, with a focus on low-and-middle income countries. | Students at Friedman who receive training are both US and international |
|---|---|
| Verification status | Verified Find out more |
Commitment description
Friedman School will engage in evidence-based research to improve food and nutrition security and reduce malnutrition in all its forms in 1 or 2 low-and-middle income countries, as well as globally. In addition, the Friedman School will actively promote and advocate for use of the research via webinars, national level conferences and workshops, briefs, publications and congressional testimonies to name a few.
Commitment goals
Conduct rigorous research to improve nutritional status and diet quality of target population
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Research monitoring and data
- Goal SMARTness index: High
Provide rigorous advanced-level training on nutrition research and policy analysis to improve nutritional status and diet quality of target population
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Operational
- Goal SMARTness index: High
Communicate and disseminate nutrition research to support actions to improve nutrition status and diet quality of target population
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Research monitoring and data
- Goal SMARTness index: High
Global Nutrition Targets
Under-5 stunting
Under-5 wasting
Adult obesity
Adult diabetes
Under-5 overweight
Low birthweight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Salt/sodium intake
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 | USAID, Rockefeller Foundation, private sector organizsations. Private sector organizations engage with Friedman School through the Tufts Food Innovation Institute and in some instances directly - there are too many to enumerate. |
|---|---|
| Funding mechanism | Combination of public and private sector institutions |
| Cost secured | Partially secured |
| Total costs estimated | Not been estimated / unknown |
