Meeting global nutrition targets requires an independent, coherent, streamlined, unified, well financed and cost-effective accountability framework to hold all stakeholders, including governments, businesses, civil society organizations (CSOs) and philanthropic organizations accountable. The accountability framework will provide the criteria and guidance for how the commitments are to be formed and made in line with the Commitment Making Guide, report the commitments made to meet the targets and monitor and evaluate the actions taken to deliver the commitments.