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The Politics of Reducing Malnutrition: Building Commitment and Accelerating Impact

The Politics of Reducing Malnutrition: Building Commitment and Accelerating Impact Stuart Gillespie 1 , Lawrence Haddad 2 , Venkatesh Mannar 3 , Purnima Menon 1 , Nick Nisbett 2 and the Maternal and Child Nutrition Study Group 1 International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

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The Politics of Reducing Malnutrition: Building Commitment and Accelerating Impact

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  1. The Politics of Reducing Malnutrition: Building Commitment and Accelerating Impact Stuart Gillespie1, Lawrence Haddad2, Venkatesh Mannar3, Purnima Menon1, Nick Nisbett2 and the Maternal and Child Nutrition Study Group 1 International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) 2 Institute for Development Studies 3 The Micronutrient Initiative

  2. The Politics of Reducing Malnutrition: Building Commitment and Accelerating Impact

  3. Shifts in the Nutrition Landscape

  4. The Challenges • To maintain global commitment • To accelerate country level commitment • To convert commitment into action • To accelerate improvements in nutrition status Improvements in nutrition status are lagging behind economic growth

  5. A More Collective Approach is Needed A “whole of society” approach to combine resources and know-how • Beyond government, e.g. business and civil society • Beyond the usual sectors, e.g. education and ICT Need to create an “enabling environment” for nutrition • Enable these actors to come together • Enable the emergence of new champions • Incentivisethem to do the right things for nutrition

  6. CharacterisingEnabling Environments What does an enabling environment for undernutrition reduction look like? Three vital factors for creating momentum and converting it to impact:

  7. Key Features of an Enabling Environment

  8. Nutrition Narratives • Nutrition for Growth • Supercharging the Demographic Dividend • Nourishing Minds • Child Survival • Hidden Hunger • The First Step in Preventing NCDs in later life Narratives need to be backed up with credible evidence

  9. Politics and Governance Maharashtra Malawi, Peru

  10. Commitment to Nutrition is Not the Same as a Commitment to Hunger Reduction

  11. Capacity to Deliver:Prioritising, Sequencing, Scaling Actions

  12. Resources for Nutrition: Look everywhere but be guided by a plan, with checks and balances

  13. Paper 4 Key Messages Enabling environments are needed to bring stakeholders together in harmony for nutrition Key features of enabling environments for nutrition: • Collective approach, political approach, accountability strengthened, strengthened capacity at all levels, more creativity around resource mobilisationwith stronger checks and balances Leadership at all levels is fundamentally important – for creating and sustaining momentum and converting it to impact Operational research on how to scale up and a shift to the “why?” and “how?” as well as the “what” of effectiveness Undernutrition reduction can be accelerated through deliberate action Let’s not wait for political will, let’s will our politicians to act

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