Accelerating the end of hunger and undernutrition

Accelerating the end of hunger and undernutritionRajul Pandya-LorchChief of Staff and Head, 2020 Vision Initiative, IFPRIReSAKSS Annual ConferenceOctober 18, 2016

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Overview: A Compact to end hunger and undernutrition by 2025

• Convening stakeholders at roundtables in focal countries

• Completing scoping studies of focal country policies and strategies

Engaging countries

• Creating global Knowledge and Innovation Hub• Sharing experiences, challenges, and solutions

within and across countries

Stimulating knowledge

and innovation

• Supporting and mobilizing established and new initiatives

• Strengthening accountability mechanisms at country and global level

Supporting initiatives and partnerships

Anastase Murekezi, Prime Minister of Rwanda and

Shenggen Fan

Mashiur Rahman, Economic Affairs Adviser to the Prime

Minister of Bangladesh

Shenggen Fan; Demeke Mekonnen, Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia; and

Newai Gebre-Ab

Saulos Chilima, Vice President of Malawi

Country roundtable discussionsBangladesh

May 5, 2016EthiopiaMarch 28, 2016

RwandaMarch 24, 2016

MalawiMay 26, 2016

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Roundtable discussion results

Cross-cutting recommendations• Make strategies, policies, and programs more nutrition-driven• Improve coordination and accountability• Enhance and implement policies and scale-up successful programs• Strengthen capacity• Fill data and knowledge gaps

Supporting other initiatives

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Compact2025 provides evidence-based support to end hunger and undernutrition by 2025

National initiatives led by Ethiopia,

Rwanda, Malawi,

Bangladesh, and others

Regional commitments

led by the African Union

and others

International initiatives led by SUN, SNV,

CARE, and others

Global goals e.g. Zero Hunger

Challenge, SDG2

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Global knowledge and innovation hub

Outputs include• Nourishing Millions• Website featuring

curated resources• Bi-weekly newsletter

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Nourishing Millions: A Compact2025 product

Nourishing Millions brings together the most intriguing stories from the past five decades to show what works in nutrition, what does not, and the factors that contribute

to success.

Impetus for book:• Consequences of undernutrition

remain huge• Political commitment to act has grown• We need to understand how to

improve nutrition and accelerate progress in the real world

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Nourishing Millions Book Chapters1. How Nutrition Improves: Half a Century of Understanding and Responding to the

Problem of Malnutrition Part I. Transforming Nutrition Interventions 2. Community Nutrition

Programming 3. Infant and Young Child

Feeding 4. Micronutrient Deficiency

Control 5. Community-based

Management of Acute Malnutrition

Part II. Transforming Sectoral Actions 6. Agriculture7. Social Protection8. Water, Sanitation, and

Hygiene9. Obesity Prevention and

Control

Part III. Transforming National Policy and Programming 10. Thailand11. Brazil12. Bangladesh13. Nepal14. Peru15. Vietnam16. Ethiopia17. Odisha, India

Part IV. Leading the Way Forward 18. Championing Nutrition: Effective Leadership for Action 19. New Horizons: Nutrition in the 21st Century

Agriculture, WASH, and Safety Nets:Ethiopia’s Multisector Story

Ethiopia has made significant progress in addressing both immediate determinants of undernutrition (e.g. health status and nutrient intake) and underlying determinants (e.g. education, sanitation, and food security).

Stunting reduced

from 57% to 44% in

2000-2011.

In 2000-2010, gov’t spending on education rose from 9% to 17%, and on social protection from 7% to 20%.

Food production per capita rose 2-3% per year from 2002-2012.

Ethiopia’s Multisector Story: Factors Contributing to Success

• National improvements in agricultural production

• Until recently, agricultural programs focused on food production… landscape changing but slowly

• But agriculture is not enough. Significant investments in:

– Improved sanitation and hygiene– Social protection (PSNP)

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Ethiopia’s Multisector Story: Factors Contributing to Success

• Improved sanitation through latrine-building and hygiene initiatives coordinated by the government’s National Health Extension Program

• The government-led Productive Safety Net Program provides food or cash transfers to beneficiaries in exchange for their participation in public works activities; nutrition-sensitive provisions added in the program’s third phase will be improved in the fourth phase

Ethiopia: Lessons learned

• To achieve maximum success, agriculture needs to be sensitized to nutrition, and backed up by actions in other sectors (sanitation, etc.)

• While the Productive Safety Net Program could serve as a model for other countries, it only targets the most vulnerable to food insecurity –quality and reach of agriculture and health service provision will be key to further gains for the rest of the population.

IFPRI/M. Mitchell

• The success of a single nutrition-specific initiative, such as dietary supplementation, is conditioned on meeting ongoing, deeper-rooted challenges to livelihoods, food security, and health.

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Key Lessons from Nourishing Millions• At the individual level, malnutrition is caused by inadequate

dietary intake, often interacting with disease and poor care. Nutrition-specific interventions can make inroads if well-targeted and well-implemented, but they cannot solve the problem by themselves.

• Transforming sectoral actions to make them more nutrition-sensitive is critical for improvements at household and community levels.

• At the country level, enabling environments are key and include political commitment, governance, policy, legal frameworks, capacity, and financing

Compact2025A global partnership to accelerate progress to end hunger and undernutrition