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Lesotho, African Union Commission, African Development Bank , and partners call for renewed commitment to boost nutrition for Africa’s children; "We have a duty and a responsibility to reduce malnutrition and stunting in Africa by 40% by 2025 - just one year from now" - Adesina. Africa’s children are paying a huge price for malnutrition,

Lesotho, African Union Commission, African Development Bank, and partners call for renewed commitment to boost nutrition for...

Leaders say financing and stronger policies needed to tackle malnutrition affecting more than 80 million children

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Mogadishu, Somalia — The Seqota Declaration, the 15-year commitment to ending stunting in children under 2 years of age in Ethiopia, contains a commitment to developing a national flagship multisectoral nutrition programme with strong government leadership. The Declaration states that such an effort would be “instrumental in bringing multiple sectors to deliver as one", in true Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement fashion. Inspired by a learning exchange with Ethiopia in late 2022, the S...

Analysis in English on Ethiopia about Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment, Drought, Epidemic and more; published on 16 Jan 2023 by IFPRI and IISD

Ethiopia participated in a two-day (23-24 March 2023) “High-Level Dialogue on Nutrition Financing”

Over the holiday period the nutrition community - and the world - lost a powerful champion: Dr. Ferew Lemma. This is our abiding memory of Ferew: calm in a crisis, but passionate about improving people’s lives; still when listening, but restless to find solutions; quiet in meetings, but forceful when it comes to implementing decisions.

African Development Bank, partners, renew commitment to end child stunting in Africa Format Urging unity and action to accelerate nutrition targets amid the global Covid-19 pandemic, representatives of the African Development Bank, the Aliko Dangote Foundation and Big Win Philanthropy renewed their commitment to end child stunting and other forms of malnutrition through the Banking on Nutrition Partnership. The partners convened during a high-level panel discussion held on 8 July, organized by ...

The African Development Bank and the Government of Ethiopia have signed an agreement for a $31 million grant to boost health and nutrition for children under the age of five. The African Development Fund’s Board of Directors approved funding for the government’s Multi-Sectoral Approach for Stunting Reduction Project (MASReP) at the end of April. The total budget is $48 million. The agreement was signed on 10 May by Yasmin Wohabrebbi, State Minister of Finance, on behalf of the Government of...