FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 8, 2021 Media Contacts: UNICEF: Helen Wylie | hwylie@unicef.org| +19172442215 WHO: Pippa Haughton| haughtonp@who.int | +41794466331 WFP: Ljubica Vujadinovic | ljubica.vujadinovic@wfp.org |...
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This document provides background on the targets that world leaders agreed to achieve at the Tokyo N4G Summit 2021. It can be used now to provide context and framing as stakeholders develop new commitments leading up to the N4G 2024 Summit. The Government of France will release a new Global Compact following the next Summit. ...
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The below videos available in multiple languages provide recordings of an expert panel sharing technical guidance on developing N4G commitments. They also answered any questions from participants regarding the commitment making process. These briefings are specifically designed to support those point persons tasked with developing their country’s N4G commitment. Welcome remarks...
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With just three months left to go until the 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit – December 7-8 – the Government of Japan look forward to virtually welcoming everyone to the culminating event of the #NutritionYearofAction. The Tokyo N4G Summit in Japan comes at a critical time, more than halfway through the UN Decade of Action...
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In 2019, the UN Secretary General announced the Decade of Action to discover sustainable solutions to the world’s biggest challenges. The UN Food Systems Summit and the Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit are working collaboratively to advance solutions across systems with a mutual recognition that malnutrition in all its forms is one of the biggest challenges we...
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Today, the Government of Japan announced the official dates of the Nutrition for Growth Summit: December 7-8, 2021. With about five months left on the race toward the Summit, and with key U.N. Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) pledging moments in between, the Government of Japan continues to work closely with the nutrition community on...
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The Nutrition Year of Action is here, and governments, donors, civil society and the private sector are already stepping up to deliver strong policy and financing commitments.We started the year with US $3 billion in financing commitments or re-commitments from a range of stakeholders including the governments of Canada, Bangladesh, Japan, Guatemala,...
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This blog was originally published by the Global Nutrition Report. By: Emma Feutl-Kent, Global Policy & Advocacy Manager, 1,000 Days and Atalanti Moquette, Founder of Giving Women How are malnutrition and women’s health, education, and economic participation connected? And why is nutrition so central to women’s empowerment? ...
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On March 8, The Lancet published the latest Series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition, including three new papers that build upon findings from the previous 2008 and 2013 Series, which established an evidence-based global agenda for tackling undernutrition over the past decade. The...
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Nutrition has risen significantly on the global agenda in the last decade, spurred in part by the findings from the first Lancet Series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition in 2008. The follow-on Series in 2013 came at a critical time alongside the Nutrition for Growth event in London. The growth of the SUN Movement, the past...
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