East Africa: Actions Towards Promoting Nutrition Advocacy

The Nutrition for Growth Summit (N4G) in Tokyo, Japan, from 7th to 8th December 2021, is a reset opportunity: it marks the end date for commitments made at the original N4G Summit in 2013. It leaves us nine years to deliver the SDGs in 2030. The Summit will mobilize ambitious and wide-reaching multi-stakeholder commitments to transform food and health systems to provide substantial nutrition gains. Concerted and coordinated action from policymakers, civil society, and businesses is needed to address the complex challenge of ending malnutrition in all its forms.

The East and Southern Africa Civil society network (ESA CSN ) is involved in mobilizing donors and respective governments to make commitments at this critical event. A series of dialogues and media engagements are being held in Kenya, Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania to rally governments and donors to invest in eliminating hunger and malnutrition by 2030. As the countries are mobilizing these engagements, the regional network (ESA CSN) has also committed to championing domestic budget advocacy and expenditure tracking for nutrition in 16 ESA countries. This commitment has been submitted to the government of Japan, and it will be part of the official mentioned commitments at the event.

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