Nutrition Funding: The Missing Piece of the Puzzle
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A new report from the Generation Nutrition campaign – “Nutrition Funding: The Missing Piece of the Puzzle is launched on the third anniversary of Nutrition for Growth.
Each year, undernutrition claims the lives of nearly three million children under the age of five and costs the global economy billions of dollars in lost productivity. The report calculates that, at the current rate of progress, states are going to miss the 2025 World Health Assembly targets on stunting and acute malnutrition by a significant margin. Increasing funding is essential if these and the other global nutrition targets are to be met on time.
In 2013, the UK hosted Nutrition for Growth, a high-level summit resulting in over $23 billion pledged to improve nutrition up to 2020 – this was good but it is not enough to end malnutrition in all its forms, as promised by world leaders. The new report calls for the next high-level nutrition funding summit to be announced immediately and for all stakeholders to step up and pledge ambitious and SMART financial commitments. We hope that at this summit donors will agree to a doubling of global aid to nutrition by 2020 and Southern governments will agree to increase their budget allocated to nutrition. The full set of recommendations by the campaign, including those for individual countries, can be found on pp.7-8 of the report.