Goal
To generate a policy-relevant gender framework, highlighting the differential impacts of COVID-19 on women and children's nutrition.
COVID-19: Women and Child Nutrition
The Micronutrient Forum
| Verification status | Verified Find out more |
|---|---|
| NAF SMARTness index | High Find out more |
| Targeted location | Global - The target audience will be governments, implementing agencies, donors, philanthropic organisations and multi-laterals in order to reach affected populations, particularly women and children. |
| Targeted population | No population group is targeted |
| Primary indicator | Establish policy framework |
| Primary indicator baseline | No framework developed |
| Primary indicator target | Framework complete by December 2022 |
| Duration | October, 2021 - December, 2022 |
Goal action plan
1. Develop an evidence-based framework that maps the differential impacts of COVID-19 on women's nutrition outcomes. The main components of the framework are COVID-related restrictions that affect family income, health services and schools. The framework will map how these restrictions interact with the underpinning gender power relations to disproportionately affect women's nutrition.
2. This framework will be used to develop policy documents that summarise the gender framework and its implications for evidence-based, policy recommendations;
3. The policy documents will be disseminated for global and national funders and policy-makers.
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
