African Union 6th Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security

Assess Progress Identify Actions Improve Accountability

Stakeholder Group Independent Expert Group 70 authors 80+ indicators, 193 countries open access data

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 country

Becoming “The New Normal”? African countries are dealing with under nutrition AND overweight/obesity …we need to see malnutrition in multiple dimensions 13

Why invest in nutrition?

of all child deaths from poor nutrition 45%

$ back for every $ invested in nutrition programmes The economics is also convincing 30 year compound rate of interest of 10%

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) 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?

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: Togo: 2.59% 14 countries in SUN

More resources are needed for nutrition to meet WHA undernutrition targets Spending on nutrition specific interventions, xx Governments R4D and World Bank estimates for stunting reduction

5. Count: Invest in Data to Monitor Success

Calls to Action 1.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

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