1. African Union 6th Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security

2. Assess Progress Identify Actions Improve Accountability www.globalnutritionreport.org

3. Stakeholder Group Independent Expert Group 70 authors 80+ indicators, 193 countries open access data www.globalnutritionreport.org

4. What is malnutrition? Why should your country invest in improving nutrition? Progress in African countries What you can do about it Outline

5. 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

6. Whichever way you look at the world… …malnutrition affects every country www.globalnutritionreport.org

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

8. Why invest in nutrition?

9. of all child deaths from poor nutrition 45% www.globalnutritionreport.org

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

11. Nutrition is a Fantastic Economic Investment

12. Progress on Nutrition Status in Africa

13. 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

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

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

16. How many global targets are African countries on course for?

17. Progress for African Countries in Meeting Global Targets? Very Tangible

18. Dashboard on Global Nutrition Targets in Africa

19. What can Governments & other stakeholders do about it?

20. 1. Show Commitment

21. 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

22. National targets are usually more ambitious than the global targets! But more countries need to set their national targets

23. 2. Measure Coverage of Programmes

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

25. 3. Strive for Policy Coherence

26. What can supporting sectors do to accelerate nutrition improvements?

27. Do you know what your underlying determinant dashboard looks like? http://globalnutritionreport.org/files/2014/12/gnr14_cp_south_africa.pdf

28. 4. Cash: Invest More in Nutrition Actions

29. 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: 1.565 Togo: 2.59% 14 countries in SUN

30. More resources are needed for nutrition to meet WHA undernutrition targets Spending on nutrition specific interventions, 2015-2025 xx Governments R4D and World Bank estimates for stunting reduction

31. 5. Count: Invest in Data to Monitor Success

33. 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

34. Thank You