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.