What does the

global
community
expect of
UNICEF?
How should
UNICEF
respond?

Lawrence Haddad
IFPRI
UNICEF Global
Nutrition Meeting
June 1, 2015

My perceived position of UNICEF:

Forefront of action and norm
setting
WHO
& FAO
UNICE
F

Norm
settin
g

WFP

Action

What does the nutrition

community want from
UNICEF?
Leadership
Innovation
Measurement
Document
Support
Change

What does the nutrition

community want from UNICEF?

Leadership
Stand up for nutrition when nobody else does
Banish complacency when nutrition in
limelight
Work with anyone who can advance nutrition
Think about what is next

What does the nutrition

community want from
UNICEF?

Innovation

What does the nutrition

community want from
UNICEF?
Innovation
Remind us that innovation shouldnt detract from
doing your job
Tells about what is working at field level
e.g. m-nutrition in Malawi

Influence high level thinking

e.g. Power of Nutrition financing facility

What does the nutrition

community want from
UNICEF?
Measurement

What does the nutrition

community want from UNICEF?

Measure
MICS

www.globalnutritionreport.org

 Assess Progress
Identify Actions
Improve Accountability

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Stakeholder Group
Independent Expert Group
60 authors
80+ indicators, 193
countries
open access data
www.globalnutritionreport.org

49

% of countries dont have

enough data to assess if on/off
course for 4 WHA indicators

40 % of most recent

child growth surveys are

over 5 years old

Glaring Nutrition Data Gaps

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What does the nutrition

community want from
UNICEF?
Document

What does the

nutrition
community
want from
UNICEF?

Document
Support rigorous
analysis/storytelli
ng

Stories that need telling

Source: GNR 2015

What does the nutrition

community want from
UNICEF?
Support

WhatWhat
does the
nutrition
community
does
the nutrition
want from
community
wantUNICEF?
from UNICEF?

Supporting
countries
PSNP, Ethiopia
Uttar Pradesh
Nutrition Mission

What does the nutrition

community want from
UNICEF?
Change

How should
UNICEF
respond?
Exploit cross-sector
position better
Help sort out what to do
in double burden
context
Help navigate the
private sector
More visioning -whats
next?
Be more self-critical

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Child
prote
ction
Ad
sc ole
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UNICEF
: What
We Do

Big chunks of government budgets

go to nutrition relevant sectors

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% of government budgets, Africa,

2010

The New Normal

4
5

of countries are
dealing with
undernutrition &
overweight/obesit
y

we need to see
malnutrition in
multiple
dimensions

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ow to navigate the business and nutrition spac

Positive
for
nutrition
status

Negative
for
nutrition
status

Direct
Expandingaccess to fortified foods in accordance
with national policy and plans
Reformulatingproducts to have an improved
nutrient profile
Strengtheninghealth and labour practices
Responsible marketingand promotion

Large corporations use of economic power to

undermine public nutrition policy when against
their interests
Inappropriate marketingto vulnerable groups
Communicatingmessages that do not support or
contradict national nutrition policies
Not supportingbest practice standards and
policies (e.g. the International Code of Marketing
of Breast-milk Substitutes)

Indirect
Generating
employment
Payingtaxes
Pricing
decisions
Providing
nutrition
information
that is hard to
interpret

Is this Peak Nutrition?

More
More
More
More

commitment than ever

known than ever
funding than ever
actions than ever

The number of times

nutrition is mentioned in
169 SDG targets?

uno

one

Can we lock
in the
commitments
before the
bubble
bursts?

Nutrition
?

SDGs

We all need to hold

ourselves to account
UNICEF too

We dont have a great track

record.
N4G and ICN2 commitments
were vaguewe all must do
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What should UNICEF do Less

of?

New surveys contain promising data

on stunting trends
Current stunting AARR% (based on current and previous
estimate)
Required stunting AARR% implied by WHA

Source: GNR 2015

www.globalnutritionreport.org

We need
to increase our
ambition on the
progress we can make

2030 goals
must be more
than
business as
usual extensions

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What does the nutrition

community want from UNICEF?

Leadership
Think about what is next
Work with anyone who can advance nutrition
Banish complacency when nutrition in
limelight
Stand up for nutrition when nobody else does

Worlds Moral
Compass on
Nutrition

Thank you

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