Increase the number of pregnant and lactating women and girls (PLWG) and children under 5 reached through malnutrition treatment and prevention programs

Over the next five years, WFP aims to effectively integrate nutrition at scale. Achieving this will rely on investing in programmes, operations and platforms that tackle both underlying and immediate drivers of poor diets and malnutrition. This will require that food assistance programmes ensure nutritional adequacy across the life cycle and through multiple systems. There will therefore be a focus on engaging and strengthening health, education, social protection and food systems as well as on capacitating national governments and stakeholders. Systematic measurement of contributions to improving meal quality, healthy diets and food choices will ensure effective and efficient programming.

As part of this strategy, WFP plans to expand access to nutrition services, with a focus on fragile or humanitarian settings. WFP and its partners will prioritize

prevention and treatment interventions that seek to reduce wasting, stunting and

micronutrient deficiencies for pregnant and lactating women, infants and young children. These include the use and scale-up of fortified and nutrient-dense foods for women, adolescent girls, young children and those with disabilities to address vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

Beyond emergencies, WFP will work with communities, households and individuals to

enhance their capacity to protect and improve their diets and nutrition status in the face of shocks and long-term stressors, while addressing inequality (e.g., social, gender, disability) that affects access to a healthy diet. When required, WFP will support double duty actions that have the potential to simultaneously reduce the risk and burden of both undernutrition and overweight, obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases.

Moreover, WFP will increase advocacy and engagement to make nutrition a national priority that is integrated into national programmes. This will lay the foundations for long-term solutions to malnutrition and accelerate the achievement of key global nutrition objectives sustainably and at scale.

As a cross-cutting approach, nutrition integration will need to be an integral part of various phases of the programme cycle. This will make it necessary to factor in technology, financing and other resources dedicated to improving nutrition from the outset. Nutrition will also be more effectively integrated into supply chains, data and analytics, global policy, advocacy and partnerships.