Taking aim: Progress on setting nutrition targets

International Food Policy Research Institute

Chapter 3 in Global Nutrition Report 2016: From Promise to Impact: Ending Malnutrition by 2030, 2016, pp 24-31 from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: THROUGH THE WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY (WHA), COUNTRIES HAVE SIGNED ONTO GLOBAL NUTRITION TARGETS, AND AS CHAPTER 2 SHOWS, ONE WAY to track countries’ progress is to apply these global targets to the national level. Yet targets that countries set for themselves are likely to be more effective tools for promoting accountability. By definition, these self-generated targets have greater government buy-in and ownership than those set from outside the country. And these targets are most useful for accountability when they are SMART (that is, specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound).

Keywords: wasting; hiv infections; sustainable development goals; economic development; non-communicable diseases; agricultural policies; stunting; trace elements; children; poverty; morbidity; overweight; obesity; climate change; child growth; anaemia; undernutrition; nutrition policies; health; indicators; sustainability; capacity development; malnutrition; nutrition; private sector; agricultural development; breastfeeding; public expenditure; diabetes; food systems; wasting disease (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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