| Targeted location (aggregate) |
Global - Across all countries in which Food for the Hungry operates. Multi-country - Across all countries in which Food for the Hungry operates. |
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| Verification status | Partially Verified Find out more |
Commitment description
Moving forward, Food for the Hungry will track improvements in the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding of children zero to six months old, reductions in malnutrition among children under five years old, and improvements in dietary diversity across all of our programming. By establishing benchmarks across our public and privately funded work, we will elevate the importance of nutrition in our work. As an example, a recent USAID-funded program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Food for the Hungry saw an increase of exclusive breastfeeding from 44 to 72 percent.
Commitment goals
Establish nutrition-specific benchmarks
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Research monitoring and data
- Goal SMARTness index: Low
Track improvement in prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding among children under six months in age
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Research monitoring and data
- Goal SMARTness index: Low
Track improvement in reducing stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Research monitoring and data
- Goal SMARTness index: Low
Track improvement in dietary diversity across programming
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Research monitoring and data
- Goal SMARTness index: Low
Global Nutrition Targets
Under-5 stunting
Under-5 wasting
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 | Regardless of the funders for maternal and child health programs, improvements to malnutrition and exclusive breastfeeding will be tracked across programming. |
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| Funding mechanism | Both private and public funds will be used for this monitoring and evaluation, depending on the program. |
| Cost secured | Costs will be part of overall programming. |
| Total costs estimated | Not been estimated / unknown |
