Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has plans to add nutrition indicators to (a) health and (b) economic development overseas development aid programmes.
The UK is continuing to promote inclusion of nutrition objectives in different sectors to support efforts to address malnutrition. We are currently developing new guidance on how our agriculture, economic development and social protection programmes can be designed to improve nutrition outcomes and how we can most effectively monitor the nutrition outcomes of these programmes.
The UK worked with other donors to promote the adoption of the new nutrition policy marker by the OECD. The UK's 2019 aid spend data that was published recently included the nutrition policy marker for the first time. The use of this policy marker presents a significant improvement in the accountability of aid spending.