World Vision International Commitment

As a child focused organization World Vision refuses to accept the current status of child malnutrition globally. Malnutrition steals so many young children's lives, and diminishes lifelong potential for hundreds of millions more, with a disproportionate impact on girls in particular. World Vision commits to private fundraising and implementation of $500 million in cash in this 5-year commitment period, for both nutrition direct, and nutrition sensitive programmes. Additionally, working closely with our bilateral and multilateral funding partners, we will manage the implementation of over $700 million in nutrition grants. We recognize the important interconnections between nutrition, gender equality, women's empowerment and child well-being. We are committed to advancing a transformational approach that shifts harmful gender norms and power dynamics across our nutrition program strategy, design and implementation. We will continue to develop, scale up and promote the newly launched Gender-Transformative Framework for Nutrition for expanded use by nutrition practitioners. This game-changing framework will increase our collective ability to transform nutrition-related approaches, from household to global levels, which perpetuate gender inequality and malnutrition. As we believe that child malnutrition should be prevented, we will leverage our broad community engagements and ministry of health partnerships in over 50 of the most vulnerable countries in the world to strengthen nutrition promotion and monitoring services. For example, we will leverage the 184,000 community health workers (CHWs) we currently support to reach the most vulnerable households with nutrition counseling, actively engaging women, men, youth and power holders. We will also work on empowering the CHWs themselves through implementation of our CHW Gender Framework. Where underweight young children are identified, World Vision will reach over 40,000 per year with our Positive Deviance Hearth intervention, empowering caregivers with the knowledge and skills to identify and prepare nutritious foods available in their communities, and promoting diet diversity and neglected and under-utilized indigenous foods. Unfortunately, we have a long way to go toward the elimination of young child wasting, this year taking steps backward with increasing incidence due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, World Vision commits to reaching over 120,000 children suffering from wasting, per year, with Community Management of Acute Malnutrition, and ensuring a minimum threshold of 85% rehabilitation success. We will also support supplementary feeding for over 50,000 pregnant and lactating women per year. In alignment with advocacy with our partners engaged on the U.N. Global Action Plan on Wasting, we will advance the utilization of CHWs to extend wasting treatment to the last, most under-served, miles. Working with our partners, we will continue to explore game changing solutions to achieving full wasting coverage, such as through identification of local alternatives to imported milk and peanut based RUTFs. Scaled implementation of Family MUAC (Mid-Upper Arm Circumference measurement) in 20 countries. World Vision recognizes the inter-generational, gendered and cyclical nature of malnutrition, and the imperative to address long neglected nutrition needs of adolescents and women of reproductive age. In this next N4G period we commit to supporting increasing utilization of non-invasive anemia screening technologies, nutrition counseling and promotion for these youth, social accountability for adolescent inclusion in health systems, and scale up of Multiple-Micronutrient Supplements. Improving nutrition for youth, and especially girls, requires a broader investment in developing their own self efficacy, their own agency. Towards this end World Vision will reach X youth with our youth empowerment intervention, Impact Plus. World Vision is proud to continue to co-lead the Global Nutrition Cluster Technical Alliance through 2023, alongside UNICEF, and to be a member of the SUN Civil Society Steering Committee, the SDG 2 Hub Bridge group, the Global Breastfeeding Collective, and the International Coalition for Advocacy on Nutrition. In addition to the aforementioned areas of our work, we will continue to prioritize advocacy for global adherence to the International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes Manufacture, for full Ministry of Health delivery of Essential Nutrition Actions, and for the establishment of adequate nutrition human resource capacity in the countries that need it most.