The Child Nutrition Fund is supporting a coordinated global agenda, the Global Action Plan, to end child wasting. Led by UNICEF with support from the government of the United Kingdom, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other partners, the Child Nutrition Fund brings together governments, donors and partners to support and incentivize country-led efforts to accelerate the scale up of sustainable policies, programs and supplies to prevent, detect, treat, and ultimately end child wasting.
With the generous support of
What we do
We are supporting the scale-up of five essential government-led actions for the early prevention, detection and treatment of child wasting in early childhood:
Our ambition
Change takes time, but it's driven by ambition.
We are committed to ensuring that by 2030, there is sufficient, sustainable funding every year to reach at least 350 million children and women. This includes reaching at least:
To achieve this, the Child Nutrition Fund will work with partners around the world to mobilize the estimated US$3.4 billion required to scale up essential actions for the early prevention, detection and treatment of child wasting.
Where we work
The Child Nutrition Fund is designed to support government-led efforts in a selected number of countries that carry some of the highest numbers and/or proportion of children under 5 years of age with wasting.
The CNF is particularly committed to supporting government-led efforts in countries that have developed operational roadmaps as part of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Global Action Plan on Child Wasting. This currently includes:
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, the Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Somalia, South Sudan, the Sudan, Timor-Leste and Yemen.
Key Resource
The Child Nutrition Fund Brief: The Child Nutrition Fund (CNF) is a new financing mechanism designed to accelerate the scale-up of sustainable policies, programmes and supplies to end child wasting.