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Yes, we will share the presentations via email. The webinar recording is also available on the GNR YouTube channel.

Registered goals are all goals that were registered in the Nutrition Accountability Framework (NAF) system for the 2021 Tokyo Summit and Nutrition Year of Action. Reported goals are the subset of those registered goals which were reported on by commitment makers during the progress tracking period (April through August 2024).

The country income classification is for the country where the commitment maker is based, as designated by the commitment maker when they created their account in the NAF. So, for example, if the South Sudan office of an organisation made the commitment, the income classification for that commitment would be for South Sudan.

While the NAF does report financial commitments, there is currently no separate analysis of financial commitments.

The report does present findings by level of SMARTness. Further information on progress by SMARTness score can be found on the NAF for individual commitment goals. You can download the data set for all commitment goals from the NAF Tracker.

Tracking the global nutrition targets requires an assessment of the targets across time that entails a different data set (national survey or Demographic Health Survey data) and different analyses. That analysis is part of the Country Nutrition Profiles (CNPs), a process that is undertaken every 2-3 years based on the availability of new data. With the 2025 Summit, tracking the progress of commitments was considered a priority as the CNPs had been updated in 2022-2023.

The development and implementation of the NAF was a major achievement of the N4G Tokyo Summit. Through verification at the time of commitment making and the subsequent progress assessment process of those commitments, several lessons were learned. These lessons include the need to streamline the registration form and to engage not only commitment makers but also the broader stakeholder community to encourage and support commitment making, tracking and reporting. The registration form was streamlined prior to the N4G Paris Summit, facilitating greater clarity in commitment making before, during and after the Summit. The community has also been instrumental before, during and after the Paris Summit, in creating ownership to encourage use of the NAF to register clear commitments and support increased tracking and reporting of these incoming N4G Paris commitments.

The recent clarification of the commitment registration form should support ensuring that more of the new commitments can be assessed in the future. Whether progress can be assessed also depends on whether commitments are reported on, and for that, the commitment makers and community members need to be engaged in the process.

Currently, the focus is on garnering more commitments (through 30 June 2025) and undertaking the process of review, clarification and verification. This will be coupled with generating a SMARTness score. This involves significant one-to-one communication with the commitment maker.

Given that the new commitments started to come in through the NAF in early 2025, the determination of the reporting schedule can only be made following an understanding of the breadth and scope of the commitments. However, in general, GNR uses an annual to biannual reporting schedule. The decision on whether progress reporting will occur within a year of commitment making or slightly later will depend on how soon commitments are expected to achieve their expected outcomes and, on the resources, available.

Currently, the registration of N4G Paris commitments is still open. Commitment makers have until 30 June 2025 to register their commitments.

We anticipate that all commitments (unverified) will be posted online after the close of the registration system.

However, the process of review, verification and computing of SMARTness scores for each commitment is ongoing and commitments will receive updated statuses (verified and level of SMARTness) as soon as GNR finalises the review with each commitment maker.

It seems the question here is about rising costs of healthy diets. There is clearly a need to address costs, and it might help to look at records of individual commitments to understand the extent to which commitment makers are addressing affordability.

We have not looked into this specifically. While commitment makers do report the financial mechanisms supporting their commitments, in most cases, there is no clear distinction between loans, bilateral aid or other internal financing mechanisms.