Global Nutrition Report 2017; Agenda "For All and By Everyone"
Global Nutrition Report 2017; Agenda "For All and By Everyone"
In ensuring that the Decade of Action on Nutrition 2016–2025, declared by the 193 countries of the UN becomes a decade of transformative impact, a unique window of opportunity to reverse the large-scale trends and multiple burdens of malnutrition in the global community, pro-actively employed a target to end malnutrition in all its forms in the SDGs, aiming to ‘transform our world’ with a vision of;
UNIVERSALITY – "for all, in every country"
INTEGRATION – "by everyone, in every country"
For the statistic, at least one in three people globally battles with malnutrition in some form.
No country is truly immune.
The 140 countries having data to track childhood stunting, anaemia in women of reproductive age and overweight in adult women show that countries experience multiple burdens of malnutrition. All 140 nations are dealing with at least one of these major nutritional problems.
123 (88%) of these countries face a grave burden of either two or three of these forms of malnutrition (childhood stunting, anaemia in women of reproductive age and/or overweight in adult women)
According to the 2017 Global Nutrition Report, 815 million people are going to be hungry, up from 777 million in 2015. The reality of famines in the world today means achieving these targets, especially for wasting, will become even more challenging. Meanwhile an estimated 38 million people are facing severe food insecurity in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen while Ethiopia and Kenya are experiencing significant droughts.
Worse still, no country is on track to meet targets to reduce anaemia among women of reproductive age, and the number of women with anaemia has actually increased since 2012.
Exclusive breastfeeding of infants aged 0–5 months has marginally increased, but progress is too slow (up 2% from baseline).
The inexorable rise in the numbers of children and adults who are overweight and obese continues. The probability of meeting the internationally agreed targets to halt the rise in obesity and diabetes by 2025 is less than 1%.
The report summarizes how grave the situation is with data showing;
2 billion people lack key micronutrients like iron and vitamin A
155 million children are stunted
52 million children are wasted
2 billion adults are overweight or obese
41 million children are overweight
88% of countries face a serious burden of either two or three forms of malnutrition
And the world is off track to meet all global nutrition targets
To stop these trends, and end malnutrition in all its forms and other nutrition-related targets, the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Compact, the follow-up to the UN High-Level Meeting on Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) and the Decade of Action on Nutrition 2016–2025 have unanimously put forth a vision that can be summed up in two words:
UNIVERSAL – for all, in every country
INTEGRATED – by everyone, in every country
Universality means ‘for all’. It is an agenda that recognizes the shared nature of challenges which are common to many people across all countries, both developing and developed nations alike. It is applicable to all races, taking into account different national realities, capacities and levels of development and respecting national policies and priorities.
Notably a universal approach to nutrition recognizes the different expressions of poor nutrition, most obviously from obesity to underweight.
The universality agenda is about knowing who is included in progress and who is missing out. Prevalence (proportion of the population) data and national averages are not enough because they can mask very different levels of burden and progress. To deliver on the universality agenda, each country has to count people; it has to know who and where its population is.
The report went further to put it straight that Universality is not just about data and delivery, it is also about culture change. It recognizes the 21st century world, where the old categories of 'developed' or 'developing', 'North' or 'South' are less and less relevant, but what works across different societies and making faster, more comprehensive, equitable and inclusive progress
While integration means that all the goals should be achieved in an indivisible way ‘by everyone’ – by people making connections across all sectors and all parts of society. The report stress the need for policy coherence without which integration might be done in silos
The nutrition decade action is expected to spur the propensity, commitment and leadership require to catalyze the efforts of all of us to end all forms of malnutrition as part of the SDG agenda while also contributing to broader development goals.
Recognizing that everyone has a right to adequate nutrition is a must in achieving this feat. For instance, The 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women underlines women’s right to health, including “adequate nutrition during pregnancy and lactation”.
The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child obliges governments to “combat disease and malnutrition, including within the framework of primary healthcare, through, inter alia, the application of readily available technology and through the provision of adequate nutritious foods.
The call for achievement of the Global Nutrition Targets has begun. It behoves on Nigerians and stakeholders in different countries to beam light on nutrition challenges their country faces, advocating for an all inclusive approach for tackling all forms of malnutrition in an integrated and universal manner, while ensuring accountability, and transparency
Source
Global Nutrition Report, 2017
In ensuring that the Decade of Action on Nutrition 2016–2025, declared by the 193 countries of the UN becomes a decade of transformative impact, a unique window of opportunity to reverse the large-scale trends and multiple burdens of malnutrition in the global community, pro-actively employed a target to end malnutrition in all its forms in the SDGs, aiming to ‘transform our world’ with a vision of;
UNIVERSALITY – "for all, in every country"
INTEGRATION – "by everyone, in every country"
For the statistic, at least one in three people globally battles with malnutrition in some form.
No country is truly immune.
The 140 countries having data to track childhood stunting, anaemia in women of reproductive age and overweight in adult women show that countries experience multiple burdens of malnutrition. All 140 nations are dealing with at least one of these major nutritional problems.
123 (88%) of these countries face a grave burden of either two or three of these forms of malnutrition (childhood stunting, anaemia in women of reproductive age and/or overweight in adult women)
According to the 2017 Global Nutrition Report, 815 million people are going to be hungry, up from 777 million in 2015. The reality of famines in the world today means achieving these targets, especially for wasting, will become even more challenging. Meanwhile an estimated 38 million people are facing severe food insecurity in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen while Ethiopia and Kenya are experiencing significant droughts.
Worse still, no country is on track to meet targets to reduce anaemia among women of reproductive age, and the number of women with anaemia has actually increased since 2012.
Exclusive breastfeeding of infants aged 0–5 months has marginally increased, but progress is too slow (up 2% from baseline).
The inexorable rise in the numbers of children and adults who are overweight and obese continues. The probability of meeting the internationally agreed targets to halt the rise in obesity and diabetes by 2025 is less than 1%.
The report summarizes how grave the situation is with data showing;
2 billion people lack key micronutrients like iron and vitamin A
155 million children are stunted
52 million children are wasted
2 billion adults are overweight or obese
41 million children are overweight
88% of countries face a serious burden of either two or three forms of malnutrition
And the world is off track to meet all global nutrition targets
To stop these trends, and end malnutrition in all its forms and other nutrition-related targets, the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Compact, the follow-up to the UN High-Level Meeting on Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) and the Decade of Action on Nutrition 2016–2025 have unanimously put forth a vision that can be summed up in two words:
UNIVERSAL – for all, in every country
INTEGRATED – by everyone, in every country
Universality means ‘for all’. It is an agenda that recognizes the shared nature of challenges which are common to many people across all countries, both developing and developed nations alike. It is applicable to all races, taking into account different national realities, capacities and levels of development and respecting national policies and priorities.
Notably a universal approach to nutrition recognizes the different expressions of poor nutrition, most obviously from obesity to underweight.
The universality agenda is about knowing who is included in progress and who is missing out. Prevalence (proportion of the population) data and national averages are not enough because they can mask very different levels of burden and progress. To deliver on the universality agenda, each country has to count people; it has to know who and where its population is.
The report went further to put it straight that Universality is not just about data and delivery, it is also about culture change. It recognizes the 21st century world, where the old categories of 'developed' or 'developing', 'North' or 'South' are less and less relevant, but what works across different societies and making faster, more comprehensive, equitable and inclusive progress
While integration means that all the goals should be achieved in an indivisible way ‘by everyone’ – by people making connections across all sectors and all parts of society. The report stress the need for policy coherence without which integration might be done in silos
The nutrition decade action is expected to spur the propensity, commitment and leadership require to catalyze the efforts of all of us to end all forms of malnutrition as part of the SDG agenda while also contributing to broader development goals.
Recognizing that everyone has a right to adequate nutrition is a must in achieving this feat. For instance, The 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women underlines women’s right to health, including “adequate nutrition during pregnancy and lactation”.
The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child obliges governments to “combat disease and malnutrition, including within the framework of primary healthcare, through, inter alia, the application of readily available technology and through the provision of adequate nutritious foods.
The call for achievement of the Global Nutrition Targets has begun. It behoves on Nigerians and stakeholders in different countries to beam light on nutrition challenges their country faces, advocating for an all inclusive approach for tackling all forms of malnutrition in an integrated and universal manner, while ensuring accountability, and transparency
Source
Global Nutrition Report, 2017
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