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Nutrition in the Post-MDG’s: Private Sector Consultation- Tuesday 26 February 2013, 5:30PM CET
Business leaders will be holding a discussion that will feed in to the Post-2015 UN development agenda consultation led by the UN High Level Panel on Post-2015 Development. The discussion will focus on how nutrition should be prioritized in the Post-2015 UN development agenda, and the ways in which the private sector can effectively engage in the new framework to help end malnutrition.
February 25, 2013 - Last update: February 10, 2023
Business leaders will be holding a discussion that will feed in to the Post-2015 UN development agenda consultation led by the UN High Level Panel on Post-2015 Development. The discussion will focus on how nutrition should be prioritized in the Post-2015 UN development agenda, and the ways in which the private sector can effectively engage in the new framework to help end malnutrition.
If you are interested in participating, please submit responses, in writing, to the following questions, which will be discussed on the call, and form the basis of a paper to be used in the Post-MDG Framework consultation process to Rohit Badhwar at rbadhwar@gainhealth.org:
- How should nutrition be integrated in the post-2015 development agenda?
- How can the post-2015 development framework help ensure private sector partners can effectively engage in improving nutrition?
Background
(As put forth by GAIN): Over ten years ago, the world coalesced around the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) framework, agreed on by world leaders at a UN summit in 2000, that set specific targets on poverty and hunger alleviation, education, gender equality, child and maternal health, environmental sustainability, HIV/AIDS reduction and a ‘Global Partnership for Development.’
Despite progress make in some areas, severe food insecurity and malnutrition continue to dominate the lives of a third of the world’s population; including 26% of children under 5 years old who are stunted and 8% of children under 5 who are wasted. This will become even more difficult to address due to the growing complexity of global challenges, such as persistence of hunger and malnutrition, population growth, increasing consumer demand from the growing middle class in developing countries, high and volatile food prices, energy scarcity, urbanization, the new competition between food and fuel and climate change The world faces an unprecedented challenge, which will loom larger as the global population increases to 9 billion by 2050 and one which underpins the viability of all other development goals.
As the post-2015 development agenda is being shaped, it is clear that nutrition is inextricably linked to health, education, livelihoods and food security to deliver equity, capacity development and economic growth. Nutrition is the foundation for a healthy life and future development; therefore addressing malnutrition and enabling access to a nutritious diet is critical to poor and rich countries alike.
A focus on global improvement of nutrition will have positive, far-reaching impact on equity and economic development in all countries. Innovative, country-led collaborations between governments, the private sector, international organization (including the United Nations), academia and civil society are integral to the ‘Collective Impact’ approach to fighting hunger and malnutrition that delivers sustainable impact at a scale that no single organization can achieve alone.
