Developing Countries: Nutrition

(asked on 24th February 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much Official Development Assistance her Department has allocated to Nutrition for Growth.


Answered by
Wendy Morton Portrait
Wendy Morton
This question was answered on 3rd March 2020

The UK has been a global leader on nutrition since hosting the first ever Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit in 2013. We are making progress against our 2013 N4G commitments as follows:

  • DFID has already exceeded its commitment to invest £2.13 billion from 2013 to 2020 in nutrition sensitive programmes – to date we have spent £2.7 billion on this type of programme;
  • We have also unlocked the full amount of nutrition matched funding committed in 2013 – this has leveraged £560 million more for nutrition from other donors; and
  • We are working to ensure we reach the target to invest £575 million on direct nutrition services by the end of this year.

DFID officials are working closely with the Government of Japan to prepare for the 2020 Nutrition for Growth Summit. This will be an important opportunity to secure new commitments to nutrition, to set the world on a better track to achieve the Global Goals and to help achieve our ambition of ending preventable deaths by 2030. We are considering what commitment the UK Government will make at the Summit.

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