Call to action

First: Governments should create an enabling policy and legislative environment that promote health and nutrition is key to tackling malnutrition. These policies should engage with resource allocation to core sectors such as health, education, social protection, water and sanitation, which have been shown to impact nutrition outcomes.

Second: Long term strategies that seek to address malnutrition should be situated within the broader food systems that seek to deliver healthy, safe, affordable, and sustainable diets for all, by addressing the underlying drivers that incentivise endless market and consumption growth over human and planetary health.

Third: Governments should increase their budgetary allocation for nutrition and make efficient use of donor funds as well as their own funds. Nutrition-specific spending in Africa is particularly low.

Fourth: Invest in collection of quality data to promote measurement and accountability for results.