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Global Nutrition Report 2014: Actions & Accountability to Accelerate the World’s Nutrition Progress
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Malnutrition
affects one in two people on the planet. Of these, 165 million children under
the age of five are estimated to be stunted (i.e. low height for age). Two
billion people are estimated to be deficient in one or more micronutrients.
Nearly 1.5 billion people are estimated to be overweight and over 500 million
to be obese. These conditions all have severe consequences for survival, for
morbidity, and for the ability of individuals, the economy and society to
thrive. In relation to the scale that these problems imply, the allocation of
public resources to their prevention and amelioration is minuscule. Resources
to specific nutrition programmes amount to a small fraction of one per cent of
domestic or aid budgets.
The Global
Nutrition Report convenes existing processes, highlights progress in combating
malnutrition and identifies gaps and proposes ways to fill them. Through this,
the Report helps to guide action, build accountability and spark increased
commitment for further progress towards reducing malnutrition much faster.
At its core,
the Report aims to empower nutrition champions at the national level to better
inform policy decisions and to strengthen the case for increased resources. A
repository of global and country-level nutrition data and analysis, the Report
also provides civil society organisations (CSOs), donors, governments, the
business sector, researchers, the media and engaged citizens with evidence of
the current scale of malnutrition, the measures being taken to combat it, as
well as highlighting what more needs to be done.
The 2014
Report is funded through the support of the UK Department for International
Development (DFID), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Government of
Canada, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, the European Commission,
Irish Aid, 1,000 Days and the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for
Nutrition & Health.
Key points
from the Report:
·
People with good nutrition
are key to sustainable development.
·
We need to commit to
improving nutrition faster and build this goal into the Sustainable Development
Goal targets for 2030.
·
The world is currently not
on course to meet the global nutrition targets set by the World Health
Assembly, but many countries are making good progress in the target indicators.
·
Dealing with different,
overlapping forms of malnutrition is the “new normal.”
·
We need to extend coverage
of nutrition-specific programs to more of the people who need them.
·
A greater share of
investments to improve the underlying determinants of nutrition should be
designed to have a larger impact on nutritional outcomes.
·
More must be done to hold
donors, countries, and agencies accountable for meeting their commitments to
improve nutrition.
·
Tracking spending on
nutrition is currently challenging, making it difficult to hold responsible
parties accountable.
·
Nutrition needs a data
revolution.
· National nutrition champions need to be recognized, supported, and expanded in number.