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...eviation below the median BMI for age of the WHO growth reference for school-aged children and adolescents. Share definition Adolescent overweight: Copy Children and adolescents aged 5–19 years who are more than one standard deviation above the median BMI for age of the WHO growth reference for school-aged children and adolescents. Share definition Adolescent obesity: Copy ...
...r of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement. In 2008, Ms. Verburg was elected as Chair of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD 17). This followed her appointment as Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality in the Netherlands in 2007. From 2011, she served as Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the United Nations’ Rome based agencies (FAO, IFAD and WFP). In 2013, she was elected as Chair of the UN Committee on World Food Security, and in 2014 she served as Chair o...
...nload the presentation slides for the 2020 Global Nutrition Report and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Nutrition for Growth online event. The Global Nutrition Report (GNR) and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Nutrition for Growth (APPG N4G) are pleased to invite you to attend a UK Public-Parliamentary online event to discuss the findings of the 2020 report as we look forward to the next N4G Summit. Register now to be part of the discussion! Save the Date: Thursday 18 June 2020, 4...
...nce of overweight and obesity (BMI ≥25), obesity (BMI ≥30) and diabetes (fasting glucose ≥7.0 mmol/L or medication for raised blood glucose or with a history of diagnosis of diabetes) in men and women. It tracks country progress on obesity (BMI ≥30) and diabetes using data produced by the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration.[6] These modelled estimates are used in the absence of globally comparable survey-based data for all countries on prevalence of NCD risk factors. Obesity and diabetes monitoring i...
...e presented. General Criteria for Inclusion Our general criteria for indicator inclusion are as follows: Consistent with a theory of change. They reflect a balance of outcomes, determinants, interventions, resources and enabling environment for measuring progress, diagnosing problems and prioritising actions Availability of data: quality -- meets a good enough standard (have been peer reviewed and are best available) and quantity (availability for >25 countries, arbitrary) Balance across li...
Chapter 5:
...cessionality. Loans or credit buy-downs are blended finance mechanisms championed by the World Bank and other key donors or international institutions wherein grant money from foundations or bilateral aid agencies is used to buy down the interest and sometimes the principal of loans or credits: (1) upon the delivery of specific results, (2) to increase the concessionality of loans (Spotlight 5.6), or (3) to free borrowing capacity from low- and middle-income countries for new programmes in nutri...
Chapter 3:
...tcome, strengthening the case for increases in external financing to offset declines in domestic spending. External financing for nutrition Official Development Assistance (ODA)[2] and development assistance from private donors[3] supporting nutrition-specific interventions have stagnated in recent years. Despite steady increases since 2005, ODA disbursements reported under the Creditor Reporting System (CRS) code for basic nutrition[4] (a proxy for nutrition-specific aid) have stalled recently,...
... has come to define this transformation. The composition of global food supplies has become more similar in recent decades, and just a handful of foods now account for most of the calories we consume. Uniform, high-input farms, the hallmark of modern intensive agriculture, have produced an abundance of food unimaginable at the start of the last century. Yet, a healthy diet remains out of reach or unrealised for billions worldwide. Monotonous, staple-based diets are still the norm for poor househ...
...ade since the first Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit in 2013, and to reaffirm their commitment to ending malnutrition in all its forms. This excerpt from the 2016 Global Nutrition Report reviews the N4G commitments.At the 2013 Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit, 110 stakeholders made four types of commitments to action: Impact commitments focus on concrete outcomes that align with, for example, World Health Assembly targets for exclusive breastfeeding or stunting. Financial commitments focus on...