Nutrition: Overseas Aid

(asked on 8th September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

What the Government's timescale is for pledging funding for Nutrition for Growth post-2020.


Answered by
Wendy Morton Portrait
Wendy Morton
This question was answered on 8th September 2020

Tackling malnutrition is a major priority for our work to end the preventable deaths of mothers, newborns and children. From April 2015 to March 2020, we reached 55.1 million young children, women and adolescent girls through UK nutrition programmes. Last week, we announced a package of £119m UK Aid to address COVID-19 and famine. This includes a new partnership with UNICEF to address acute malnutrition more effectively and efficiently. Nick Dyer has been appointed as the UK’s first Special Envoy for Famine Prevention and Humanitarian Affairs. We are committed to Nutrition for Growth, with a new commitment subject to Spending Review decisions. We will update on plans following the outcome of that.

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