How are we doing

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How are we doing in the fight
..against hunger and malnutrition?
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How are we doing? Are we on track?
3 key messages

• MDG1 has 5 distinct targets. Net progress
  hindered
• by inaction on any one of these five.

• Progress is patchy. Better on poverty than
  hunger.

• Successes exist scaling up is possible.
• Lessons
• a) Protocols and Products (treating)
• b) Enhanced choices (preventing)
• c) Facilitating and Protecting (curing)

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Source UNSCN 2004 UNDP, FAO, World Bank
Are we on track?
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Progress towards all 5 MDG1 targets
e.g. Latin America
e.g. W. Africa
Source Gentilini and Webb 2007
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Key Lessons

• 1. Protocols and Products (treating)
• Acute malnutrition (now manageable)
• Micronutrients
• Paradox more success in camps than communities

• 2. Enhancing Choices (preventing)
• Behaviour change is key (knowledge)
• The process, not just the (visible) problems
• Windows in life cycle (not only infants 0-2)

• 3. Facilitating and Protecting
• Complementary inputs (essential packages)
• Mainstreaming hunger and nutrition (PRSPs)
• Protecting gains (crises destroy progress)

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Patrick Webb Dean for Academic Affairs Friedman
School Tufts University

ECOSOC 2007 AMR