The neglected crisis of undernutrition: DFID's strategy

This document sets out DFId's strategy to tackle undernutrition. It presents a brief overview of the situation and its implications for DFId's role and priorities in nutrition over the coming years. The development of this strategy was guided by recent publications, a review of the evidence (The neglected crisis of undernutrition: Evidence for Action). The focus of the strategy is on undernutrition, especially maternal and child undernutrition. Four main objectives are identified:

• Building international support, co-ordination and coherence for global action on nutrition.
• Identifying partners, building support and scaling up programmes in partner countries in order to make direct impact on nutritional outcomes (through direct and/or indirect interventions).
• Ensuring investments in multiple sectors deliver improved nutrition by making explicit links to improved nutrition in programme design, monitoring and evaluation.
• Building evidence, demonstrating results: strengthening the links between evidence, policy, results and impact, through country evaluations and investments in operational research.