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KEY MESSAGES AND RECOMMENDATIONS T
HIS GLOBAL NUTRITION REPORT IS AIMED AT NUTRITION CHAMPIONS AND THEIR CURRENT AND POTENTIAL ALLIES—PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS WHO CAN FORM
productive partnerships to accelerate improvements in nutrition outcomes. Drawing upon the findings of the report, this chapter offers messages and recommendations for those seeking to accelerate malnutrition reduction through stronger policies, pro- grams, research, and advocacy. The messages are to be tailored to each of these audi- ences at the global, regional, national, and subnational levels, according to context.
MESSAGE 1: People with good nutrition are key to sustain-
able development. The report shows that malnutrition affects nearly every country in the world. Improvements in nutrition status contribute to many of the proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will be the primary global accountability mechanism for the next 15 years. Nutrition should thus be a prominent focus of the SDG framework. At present, only 1 of 169 SDG targets is explicitly related to nutrition.
Recommendations
• The nutrition community should continue to advocate strongly for nutrition within the SDG framework. We recommend finding ways of embedding all six World Health Assembly (WHA) nutrition indicators within the SDG framework, but not necessarily all in the food and nutrition SDG. In addition, we recommend identifying and advocating for indicators and targets across all SDGs that are clearly important to tracking nutritional outcomes, drivers, and consequences, even when they are not labeled as nutrition indicators.
• In the next few months, influential players within the nutrition community should intensify their engagement on nutrition in the SDG process. These players include key gov- ernments, foundations, prominent nongovernmental organi- zations (NGOs) and civil society organizations, the UN and other key multilateral agencies, businesses, and researchers and academics.
MESSAGE 2: We need to commit to improving nutrition faster and build this goal into the Sustainable Development Goal targets for 2030.
Using new data, experiences, and analyses, we make the case that the SDG targets for 2030 need to be more ambitious than simple extrapolations of trends for the WHA targets for
2025. Considerable commitments and energy are evident from the SUN Movement, the Nutrition for Growth Summit and Compact, the Second International Conference on Nutrition in November 2014, and the 2016 Rio Olympic Summit. New evidence from the Indian state of Maharashtra, new preliminary and promising national-level data from India, new analysis of trend data from Bangladesh, and new comparative country evidence provide grounds for us to set more ambitious goals for what can be achieved.
Recommendations
• The UN agencies should lead a brief but open and consul- tative process to establish a consensus on SDG nutrition targets for 2030. This process should be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2015.
• A decision needs to be made on how to align WHA 2025 targets with new 2030 targets.
MESSAGE 3: 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.
Although the world is not on course to meet the global WHA targets, many individual countries are. Of the 99 countries for which we can make assessments for four of the six WHA targets, 68 are on course to meet one or more of the WHA targets. We need to understand more about why these coun- tries are successful and others are not. The case studies from Bangladesh, Brazil, Maharashtra, and the United States as well as Europe illustrate the broad-based effort it takes to improve people’s nutrition in a sustained way.
Recommendation
• Research funders and research journals should commission a series of high-quality country case studies to understand
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