nutrition staff vacancies, while Panels 8.2 and 8.3 on African civil society networks highlight the importance of the scale and reach of their membership. If nutrition is to improve rapidly and sustainably by 2030, it must be driven by the efforts of national champions. The global community, then, needs to champion these individuals and their organizations.
Recommendations
Governments, international partners, and businesses need to invest strategically, systematically, and in a sustained manner in
• nutrition leadership programs to scale up the numbers and reach of nutrition champions (the African Nutrition Leader- ship Programme is a good example of a program that has the potential for scale-up);
• filling frontline vacancies of nutrition practitioners at the community, district, and national levels and strengthening the incentives and motivation of existing frontline workers; and
• country-led research programs, including not only research on the sequencing and prioritization tools that nutrition champions need, but also support for their efforts to evalu- ate interventions.
WE CAN IMPROVE NUTRITION MORE RAPIDLY: STRONGER ACCOUNTABILITY IS KEY
This report, supported by a wide-ranging group of stakeholders and delivered by an Independent Expert Group in partnership with a large number of contributors, aims to mark progress
in improving nutrition status, highlight areas for action, and contribute to strengthened nutrition accountability. The report seeks to provide a fresh perspective on the distribution of malnutrition, on efforts to reduce it, and on the capacities and data needed to drive such efforts. It attempts to shed new light on the issues, initiate new conversations, and identify new opportunities to act. The authors of the report view it as an intervention to reframe the way we think about malnutrition, to reset aspirations about how quickly it can be reduced, and to reenergize actions to reduce it.
Urgency is the driver of this reimagining of nutrition. The
report shows that malnutrition—whether in the form of infants whose brains fail to develop fully or adults whose hearts fail to function properly—affects virtually every country on the planet. And yet the world is not on track to meet the global nutrition targets set by the WHA for 2025.
In the 21st century the challenge of improving nutrition
status resonates the world over. A failure to intensify action will cast a long shadow, bequeathing a painful legacy to the next generation. Our generation has not only the opportunity but also the ability to banish those shadows. Yet we can be successful only if we act strategically, effectively, in alliances, and at scale, and hold ourselves accountable. This report— its data, analysis, examples, messages, and recommenda- tions—represents one contribution to meeting this collective 21st-century challenge.
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