Urgent actions
1. Invest in community-led, context-sensitive solutions: Provide targeted support to address specific challenges, such as climate impacts and conflict, and integrate nutrition with livelihoods and other sectors to address household food insecurity. 2. Ensure accountability across all levels: Strengthen leadership accountability at local, national, and international levels, ensuring healthcare systems, governments, civil society, and partners fulfil commitments and effectively distribute resources. Political will and high-level accountability are crucial. 3. Promote multi-sectoral collaboration
... Lire plus: Break down silos by fostering partnerships between health, nutrition, and other sectors to deliver sustainable, integrated programmes that address food security and malnutrition comprehensively. This includes those involved in direct delivery, as well as government and civil society. 4. Advocate for international action against conflict-induced hunger: Enforce compliance with international humanitarian law (IHL), hold states accountable for using hunger as a weapon, and keep conflict-related hunger on the global agenda. 5. Invest in nutrition education and implementation research: Invest in nutrition education and training for caregivers, community health workers, and traditional leaders to enhance understanding of balanced diets and strengthen community resilience to malnutrition. Changing health systems and services requires rigorous testing and adaptation to user needs. Modelling alone is insufficient, and implementation research is a critical, often missing step. 6. Leverage climate finance for local, nutrition-sensitive interventions: Increase access to climate finance to support nutrition-sensitive programmes, ensuring funds are provided as grants, not loans. Prioritise channeling these resources to local levels, focusing on initiatives that benefit women, children, and other local groups while enhancing climate-resilient food systems. Lire moins