African Union 6th Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security

• Assess Progress• Identify Actions • Improve Accountability

www.globalnutritionreport.org

• Stakeholder Group• Independent Expert Group• 70 authors• 80+ indicators, 193

countries• open access data

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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

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

Whichever way you look at the world…

…malnutrition affects every countrywww.globalnutritionreport.org

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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Why invest in nutrition?

of all child

deaths from poor

nutrition

45%

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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

Nutrition is a Fantastic Economic Investment

Progress on Nutrition Status in Africa

• 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

Trends in under 5 stunting in Africa: improving rates, but increasing numbers

Trends in under 5 overweight in Africa: worsening rates, increasing numbers

How many global targets are African countries on course for?

Progress for African Countries in Meeting Global Targets? Very Tangible

Dashboard on Global Nutrition Targets in Africa

What can Governments & other stakeholders

do about it?

1. Show Commitment

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

National targets are usually more ambitious than the global targets!

But more countries need to set their national targets

2. Measure Coverage of Programmes

Can African Nations Measure the Scaling Up of their Nutrition Programmes?

3. Strive for Policy Coherence

What can supporting sectors do to accelerate nutrition improvements?

Do you know what your underlying determinant dashboard looks like?

http://globalnutritionreport.org/files/2014/12/gnr14_cp_south_africa.pdf

4. Cash: Invest More in Nutrition Actions

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

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

5. Count: Invest in Data to Monitor Success

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

Thank You