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African Union 6th Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security
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• Assess Progress• Identify Actions • Improve Accountability
www.globalnutritionreport.org
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• Stakeholder Group• Independent Expert Group• 70 authors• 80+ indicators, 193
countries• open access data
www.globalnutritionreport.org
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• What is malnutrition?• Why should your country
invest in improving nutrition?
• Progress in African countries• What you can do about it
Outline
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Malnutrition- Children do not grow properly- Adults are too thin- People are deficient in vitamins & minerals- Adults are overweight or obese
Caused by- Interaction of poor diets & unhealthy environments
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Whichever way you look at the world…
…malnutrition affects every countrywww.globalnutritionreport.org
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Becoming “The New Normal”?
African countries are dealing with under nutrition AND overweight/obesity
…we need to see malnutrition in multiple dimensions
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www.globalnutritionreport.org
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Why invest in nutrition?
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of all child
deaths from poor
nutrition
45%
www.globalnutritionreport.org
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$back for every $
invested in nutrition programmes
The economics is also convincing
30 year compound
rate of interest of
10%www.globalnutritionreport.org
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Nutrition is a Fantastic Economic Investment
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Progress on Nutrition Status in Africa
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• 58 million children under age five are too short for their age (stunted)
• 13.9 million under 5’s weigh too little for their height (wasted)
• 10.3 million under 5’s are overweight
• In many African countries, only a minority of children are growing healthily (without stunting or wasting)
• 163.6 million children and women of reproductive age are anemic
• 220 million people are estimated to be calorie deficient
• 8 percent of adults over 20 are obese
• Adult obesity is on the rise in all 54 African countries (2010─2014)
The scale of the problem of malnutrition in Africa
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Trends in under 5 stunting in Africa: improving rates, but increasing numbers
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Trends in under 5 overweight in Africa: worsening rates, increasing numbers
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How many global targets are African countries on course for?
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Progress for African Countries in Meeting Global Targets? Very Tangible
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Dashboard on Global Nutrition Targets in Africa
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What can Governments & other stakeholders
do about it?
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1. Show Commitment
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Only 20 of 54 African nations have signed up to the Nutrition for Growth Summit.
Make public pledges for nutrition
Only 36 of 54 African nations are members of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement.
Malabo Declaration: Bring down stunting to 10% and underweight to 5% by 2025
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National targets are usually more ambitious than the global targets!
But more countries need to set their national targets
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2. Measure Coverage of Programmes
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Can African Nations Measure the Scaling Up of their Nutrition Programmes?
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3. Strive for Policy Coherence
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What can supporting sectors do to accelerate nutrition improvements?
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Do you know what your underlying determinant dashboard looks like?
http://globalnutritionreport.org/files/2014/12/gnr14_cp_south_africa.pdf
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4. Cash: Invest More in Nutrition Actions
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Domestic Budget Allocations to Nutrition as % of total Government Budget
Average of 14 countries: 1.3% Benin: 1.34%
Burkina Faso: 0.89%Burundi: 1.28%Chad: 1.46%Cote d’Ivoire 0.10% Kenya: 0.81%Madagascar: 1.565Togo: 2.59%
14 countries in SUN
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More resources are needed for nutritionto meet WHA undernutrition targets
Spending on nutrition specific interventions, 2015-2025
x x
Governments
R4D and World Bank estimates for stunting reduction
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5. Count: Invest in Data to Monitor Success
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Calls to Action1. Commitment
• Strengthen national targets on nutrition• Make a Nutrition for Growth commitment at Rio 2016• Join SUN!
2. Coverage • Increase coverage of nutrition programmes & measure
coverage! 3. Coherence
• Build alliances between nutrition & other communities 4. Cash
• Find more funding for nutrition action 5. Counting
• Identify the data gaps that hinder action—and fill them
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Thank You