Three Key Actions for Children at Nutrition for Growth

Significant progress on improving children’s nutrition has been made in the past few decades, meaning outcomes for children born in 2024 are much better than those for children born in 2000. But those advances are not equitable, and with crisis after crisis, progress is now being reversed.

Unlike other vital health sectors, nutrition does not have a major multilateral that
unveils investment plans and strategies. Nutrition for Growth (N4G) remains the main event for commitments to nutrition to be announced, and to ensure all stakeholders remain focused on ending hunger and malnutrition. With malnutrition linked to half of all child deaths in under-5s, investing in nutrition should be everybody’s business.

This paper outlines three key actions that commitment-makers must consider.