Results for Development (R4D) nutrition experts provided foundational data and analysis to two publications released in March: a comment in the journal Nature, as well as a policy brief published on the Micronutrient Forum. The Micronutrient Forum hosts the Standing Together for Nutrition Consortium, in which R4D participates and worked with to develop these publications.
The publications explore the impacts of recent — and massive — reductions in funding for international food aid. Both documents use R4D’s nutrition funding estimates to predict the number of children who will lose access to wasting treatment and to highlight some examples of the effects of funding cuts.
For years, R4D has tracked and reported on donor disbursements for scaling up the World Health Assembly’s priority nutrition interventions. The organization’s reporting has revealed stagnant donor funding for high-impact interventions, such as wasting treatment. Its most recent report, published last summer and titled, “Tracking aid for the WHA nutrition targets: Progress toward the global nutrition goals between 2015-2022,” unearthed a more than $2 billion donor funding gap for nutrition interventions.
Explore the following publications:
- “The full lethal impact of massive cuts to international food aid” (Nature)
- “Aid Budget Cuts Have Dire Consequences for Malnutrition Among the World’s Most Vulnerable Children” (Micronutrient Forum)
- “Tracking aid for the WHA nutrition targets: Progress toward the global nutrition goals between 2015 to 2022” (Results for Development)
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