AID FOR NUTRITION
an end to hunger and undernutrition have been very successful. In the same vein, the UK Government and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation are following up the Global Hunger event of 2012 with the Nutrition for Growth Event on the 8th June in the lead up to the G8 Summit in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland. It will bring together Heads of State, ministers, corporate and civil society leaders and other prominent stakeholders to agree ambitious new commitments to tackle undernutrition and ultimately, to secure a healthier, more prosperous future for the millions of women, children and families who, with their improved health and productivity, will boost growth and economic development. It is billed as a once in ‘a decade opportunity to transform the global work on nutrition and it provides an opportunity for corporations to get behind one of the most critical issues facing children and development’. In the latest budget review the UK Chancellor committed to dedicating 0.7 % GNI to ODA the first G8 country to
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do so; this is a real opportunity for the UK to increase aid for nutrition dramatically and lead the other donors by example. Furthermore, hundreds of UK based NGOs launched a huge campaign in January 2013, the Enough Food for Everyone IF campaign, which aims to end hunger and undernutrition in our generation. The information in this report will support advocacy efforts for various initiatives such as the UK IF Campaign, the Nutrition for Growth pre-G8 event and other high level global nutrition events scheduled for 2013 such as the United Nations General Assembly and the post-2015 development framework dialogue. For the consultative post-2015 development framework dialogue, the report can be used for advocacy efforts to increase investment in nutrition interventions as well as to improve tracking of investments at global and national level.