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United Kingdom, the United States, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, and the World Bank Group.6


and summarized in Figures 7.1 and 7.2.


Nutrition-specific commitments and disbursements The United States, the World Bank, and Canada made the larg- est nutrition-specific commitments in 2012.


For the 13 donors, commitments to nutrition-specific in- terventions increased from US$665 million in 2010 to US$925 million in 2012, a change of 39 percent, led by substantial increases from the World Bank (more than 450 percent between 2010 and 2012), Canada, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Founda- tion.


Nutrition-specific disbursements were much lower than commitments but did increase from US$334 million in 2010 to US$480 million in 2012, an increase of 44 percent.


Nutrition-sensitive commitments and disbursements


The United States, the World Bank, and the EU made the largest nutrition-sensitive commitments in 2012. Nutrition-sensitive commitments declined by 14 percent, from US$5.95 billion in 2010 to US$5.13 billion in 2012. This


The data are reported in Appendix 4


change is reported by the World Bank to be almost entirely due to an extraordinary spike in its nutrition-sensitive commitments in 2010, when large projects were approved to support the Mexican social protection program Oportunidades.


There was also a 3 percent decline in the US government’s nutrition-sensitive commitments between 2010 and 2012. The US government reports that its figures fluctuate substantially from year to year because of the significant emergency compo- nent of its spending. The US government also notes that some nutrition-sensitive declines are driven by congressional appropri- ations reflecting declines in areas such as HIV programming and water and sanitation infrastructure.


Nutrition-sensitive disbursements were not reported by the US government, World Bank, or Children’s Investment Fund Foundation for 2010 or 2012. As a consequence the nutrition- sensitive disbursement totals for the 13 donors are much lower than their commitments. For the 10 donors that report nutrition-sensitive disbursements, these disbursements in- creased from US$937 million to US$1.112 billion, or 19 percent.


Total commitments and disbursements


With the sizable declines in US and World Bank commitment figures, total commitments fell from US$6.62 billion to US$6.06 billion, a decline of 9 percent.


FIGURE 7.1 NUTRITION-RELATED SPENDING COMMITMENTS OF 13 DONORS 6,617 5,953 5,130 1,262 1,112 937 6,056 1,523 FIGURE 7.2 NUTRITION-RELATED DISBURSEMENTS OF 10 DONORS


480 334 925 665 2010 2012


Nutrition-specific commitments


Source: Authors.


Note: The 13 donors are Australia, Canada, the European Union, France, Ger- many, Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, and the World Bank.


50 GLOBAL NUTRITION REPORT 2014 2010 2012


Nutrition-sensitive commitments


2010 2012 Total commitments 2010 2012


Nutrition-specific disbursements


Source: Authors.


Note: Data exclude the United States, the World Bank, and the Children’s Invest- ment Fund Foundation for nutrition-sensitive disbursements.


2010 2012


Nutrition-sensitive disbursements


2010 2012 Total disbursements


MILLIONS OF US$


MILLIONS OF US$


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