UNICEF Strategic Plan 2018-2021

سال انتشار: 1397
نوع سند: مقاله کنفرانسی
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تاریخ نمایه سازی: 30 دی 1397

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Malnutrition is both a driver and an outcome of poverty and inequity. Undernutrition can lead to stunting, causing irreversible damage to both individuals and societies. Ensuring universal access to nutritious food in the 1000-day window of opportunity between conception and a child’s second birthday is essential to tackle stunting. This should be supported by a multi-sectoral approach, which includes nutrition-sensitive health care, water, social protection, sanitation, education, and agriculture, combined with nutrition-specific interventions underpinned by initiatives that enable empowerment of women.The global food security challenge is clear - by 2050, the world must feed 9 billion people. By that time the demand for food will be 60% greater than it is today. Food insecurity can contribute to child wasting, stunting and micronutrient deficiency. It can also have a negative effect on the nutrition of infants by compromising breastfeeding. Insufficient intake of macronutrients and micronutrients plays an important role in maternal undernutrition, resulting in higher risk of low birthweight, which in turn are both risk factors for child stunting. On the other hand, obesity in childhood is becoming a growing problem in many regions of the world, as there is a close link between food insecurity and obesity due to complex factors that may affect food choices.Responding to the above, the global community aims at ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture by the year 2030. In 2012, World Health Assembly (WHA) Member States approved six global targets for improving maternal infant and child nutrition to be met by 2025. These WHA targets call for measures to:1) Reduce anemia in women of reproductive age 2) Reduce low birth weight in newborns 3) Increase rates of exclusive breastfeeding in infants 4) Reduce stunting 5) Reduce wasting 6) Halt the rise of overweight among children under five years of age. In order to support achieving these global targets for nutrition, UNICEF’s Global Strategic Plan 2018-2021 has established five goal areas for nutrition with special focus o n the most disadvantaged children and young people:1) Early childhood nutrition 2) Nutrition of school age children, adolescents and women 3) Care for children with severe acute malnutrition in non-emergency contexts4) Maternal and child nutrition in humanitarian crises 5) Knowledge, partnership and governance for nutrition. This presentation will provide an overview of these goals with highlights of how UNICEF is supporting nutrition and food security initiatives in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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Will Parks

UNICEF Iran Representative