Goal

CHILD NUTRITION: 105 million children in 50+ countries receive support to prevent and treat under-nutrition

FROM Commitment: Healthy Start & Resilient Families

Civil Society Organisation / United Kingdom

Save the Children International

Date made: 05 Nov 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
Verification status Verified Find out more
NAF SMARTness index High Find out more
Targeted location Global - We will deliver on this commitment through our work in around 40+ countries. Health and Nutrition Global Portfolio, held in 5 Regions. Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Fiji, China, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Laos, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Vanuatu and …
Targeted population Specific population group(s)
Targeted population age Specific age group(s)
Targeted population specific age Maternal, infant, under 5 and adolescent
Targeted population sex All
Population coverage 105,000,000.0
Primary indicator Total number of children in 40+ countries who receive support to prevent and treat under-nutrition
Primary indicator baseline 72000000
Primary indicator target 105m by 2024
Duration January, 2022 - December, 2024

Goal action plan

How will Save the Children address malnutition?

Invest and scale-up programs that protect, promote and support recommended adolescent, maternal, infant and young child nutrition

Engage and support integrated initiatives aiming at improving access to nutrition services and appropriate diets for women, adolescents and children, addressing all forms of malnutrition

Continue to drive scale-up of the prevention and management of malnutrition, in emergency and development settings

Invest in innovations to prevent and treat malnutrition, continuing to pursue our research agenda

Recommit and deliver our investment to Nutrition for Growth and other nutrition-centered campaigns

Continue to support the learning program around the Nourishing the Youngest and Resourcing Families for Better Nutrition Common Approaches (Save the Children guidance), and support broader nutrition learning and knowledge management

Protect and support food security, livelihoods, and access to nutritious foods as it relates to climate change. Leverage Save the Children’s, data and programges (Cost of the Diet, HEA) monitor and evaluate impact of climate change on children's health and nutrition (ahead of COP26 and other global climate events (Food Systems Summit)

By establishing a ‘famine taskforce’ that will develop and drive famine prevention and intervention strategy

Continue to lead global impact on Infant and Young Child Feeding

Continue to invest in multi-sectoral solutions to address the underlying and contributing factors of undernutrition such as WASH, agriculture, MNCH and ECD, also in alignment with the humanitarian and development nexus

Nutrition Action Classification

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

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