Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health, led by the Seqota Declaration Federal Program Delivery Unit within the Nutrition Coordination Lead Executive Office, has finalized the National Food and Nutrition Financing Framework of Action: Ending Malnutrition in Ethiopia Through Sustainable Financing. The Framework was developed with oversight from the Ministry of Health and technical support from the Finance Capacity Development Platform (FCDP) for Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) countries, made available through the SUN Anglophone Africa Hub and UNICEF.
Despite significant progress over the past decades, Ethiopia continues to face a high burden of malnutrition, with rates of child stunting and wasting above the average across Africa. At the 2025 Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit, the Government of Ethiopia committed to mobilizing $638 million USD for nutrition by 2030, 25% of the $2.55 billion Seqota Declaration funding requirement, and to establishing a robust system to ensure the effective allocation, tagging, and tracking of nutrition-related financial resources.
The Framework provides a shared understanding of the full resource need to end malnutrition in Ethiopia, estimated at an average of ETB 26 billion annually from 2026–2030, roughly 2.7% of the country’s total approved federal budget, and lays out a roadmap of priority actions to help the government meet the financing and governance commitments it made at N4G.
The Framework is organized around seven pillars for sustainably financing food and nutrition, each with their own set of concrete actions mapped to Ethiopia’s FNS or N4G commitments:
- Set Financial Direction
- Strengthen Sectoral Nutrition Planning
- Ensure Active Nutrition Review by Planning Commissions
- Enhance Multi-sectoral Accountability
- Advocate to Senior Officials and Parliament
- Mobilize Additional Innovative Financing
- Establish the Next Decade of Action (2031–2040)
With the Framework validated by all key government sectors and partners, the next phase of work will focus on cascading national guidance to the regional level through costed Regional Food and Nutrition Investment Plans to guide implementation of the framework’s recommended actions.
FCDP is a SUN Movement resource available to all 67 SUN Countries. The platform aims to transform the nutrition financing landscape by inspiring and igniting government leaders to elevate nutrition financing as a priority and accelerate impact across sectors.
