Abstract
Optimism for the UN Proclamation of the Decade of Action on Nutrition: An African Perspective.
Highlights
On Friday, April 1, 2016, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly proclaimed 2016 to 2025 as a decade of action on nutrition.[1]
Excited as I am about how all the chips are falling in place, a key question remains on my mind: Do we have the key ingredients to deliver the goods, come 2025 or 2030? My mind goes back to 2008 when the Lancet published the first series on maternal and child nutrition, which subsequently triggered the formation of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement.[4,5]
There are signs of significant progress being made through the movement, the ‘‘2015 Global Nutrition Report’’ points to a rather slow rate of change as well as persistant gaps, including insufficient financing and suboptimal country-level capacity needed to address malnutrition at sufficient scale.[7,8]
Summary
On Friday, April 1, 2016, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly proclaimed 2016 to 2025 as a decade of action on nutrition.[1] Writing as an African living and working in sub-Saharan Africa, where up to 11% of gross domestic product (GDP) is lost to malnutrition[2] and where malnutrition is declining rather too slowly for anyone’s liking, this proclamation really captured my attention Another reason this is significant for me and, I reckon, for many others is that this year marks the beginning of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),[3] which articulate achieving zero hunger and the even-more aspirational dream of ending all forms of malnutrition by the year 2030.
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