The report as an intervention
The goal of this report is to help better monitor progress on a range of nutrition status indicators, programs, determinants, policies, laws, and resources. The aim is to strengthen nutrition accountability and contribute to faster improvements in nutri- tion status. By identifying commitments, tracking them, and assessing whether they are met, the report should stimulate and intensify action. Because Global Nutrition Reports will be issued annually, stakeholders will be better able to learn who is and is not meeting commitments and to help them better meet these commitments in the future.
A focus on stakeholders at the national level
Arguably, the global commitment to nutrition is stronger than it has ever been. The food price spikes of 2007–2008 focused global attention on the long-term consequences of widespread shocks. The Lancet published two series of papers on maternal and child undernutrition in 2008 and 2013, bringing together what we know about the distribution and consequences of
malnutrition and what works to promote good nutrition. The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement, initiated in 2010, has more than 50 country or state-level members and has been instrumental in stimulating and sustaining commitment to nu- trition. Progress in improving micronutrient deficiencies is slow but has received renewed global attention (such as in the 2014 Global Hunger Index [von Grebmer et al. 2014]). The signatories to the N4G Compact in London in 2013 pledged more than US$4 billion in extra financing for undernutrition reduction until 2020. Overweight and obesity, which affect between a third and a half of adults in high-income countries, are also rising up the global agenda (Ng et al. 2014; Popkin 2009; Keats and Wiggins 2014).
Global interest in malnutrition is increasingly reflected at the national level and generated by challenges experienced at that level. But without national-level progress, global interest will be difficult to sustain. This progress at the national level will depend on national champions who lead the way in pushing nutrition up the development agenda, building alliances across
FIGURE 1.1 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF THIS REPORT
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IDENTIFY COMMITMENTS Benefits of improved nutrition status Progress in improving nutrition status DESCRIBE
RESPONSE TO ACCOUNTABILITY
Enabling environment for nutrition improvement 4
LEVERAGE INFORMATION ON ACCOUNTABILITY TO PUSH FOR NEW COMMITMENTS
Identify key data and capacity gaps Source: Authors, based on Kraak et al. (2014) and te Lintelo (2014).
Country-driven combinations of nutrition-specific and nutrition-senstive programs and approaches, supported by trends in areas and sectors related to nutrition such as food, health, social welfare, education, water, sanitation, hygiene, and gender
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DETERMINE WHETHER
COMMITMENTS WERE MET
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TRACK PROGRESS AGAINST
COMMITMENTS
ACTIONS & ACCOUNTABILITY TO ACCELERATE THE WORLD’S PROGRESS ON NUTRITION
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