3. Good nutrition, once given, can never
be taken away. A child whose mother
takes iron-folic acid during pregnancy,
breastfeeds her for the first six months
and introduces her to nutritious foods
at the appropriate stages leading up
to her 2nd birthday will have a strong
foundation for the rest of her life.
The Power of Nutrition is a new
charitable foundation with a focused
mission: accelerate the fight against
child undernutrition at a pace and scale
that few can achieve alone. Today, child
undernutrition hides in plain sight
around the world, not just in countries
ravaged by war or drought. In some
countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia,
every other child is growing up stunted
– with reduced physical and cognitive
growth – even though nutritious food is
often readily available and proven, cost-
effective, scalable solutions exist.
We are proud to be the first and only
foundation to take on this challenge.
Our strategy combines new financing
and smart investments in child nutrition
in a specific set of hotspot countries.
We launched in April 2015 with $200
million in signed commitments from our
partners – a rate of growth that matches
our ambition and the dramatic results we
are targeting.
This document sets out further details of
how our targeted investment approach
and our unique financing model provide
private investors with an unprecedented
opportunity to advance countries’
economic growth by transforming the lives
and livelihoods of millions of children.
Together, we can take steps to sharply
reduce the future cost of undernutrition on
children and societies. Please, contact me to
discuss how you can join us on our journey.
Martin Short
Chief Executive Officer,
The Power of Nutrition
The power of prevention. That’s The Power of Nutrition.
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4. 01 WHY NUTRITION 02 WHAT IS THE POWER OF NUTRITION? 03 WHERE THE POWER OF NUTRITION INVESTS 04 HOW THE POWER OF NUTRITION INVESTS 05 APPENDIX
Contents
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5. 01
WHY NUTRITION
“
Anne M. Mulcahy, CEO, Xerox Corporation (2001-2009)
Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire
strategy. The returns are incredibly high.”
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6. 06
01
WHY NUTRITION
Good nutrition transforms children’s
health, education and livelihoods.
Nutrition is a powerful multiplier in development.
It enables children to grow to their full potential. It also
triggers positive social and economic changes in countries
and across generations.
The earlier the investment, the greater the return.
Good nutrition during the 1,000-day window between
conception and a child’s second birthday prevents
undernutrition and improves lifelong cognitive and
physical development.
Nutrition is more than just about food.
It is about getting children and their mothers the right
nutrition supplements, services and education at the right
time to prevent stunting – the invisible hunger.
GOOD NUTRITION MAKES CHILDREN 9 TIMES
LESS LIKELY TO DIE FROM PNEUMONIA
HEALTH
Black et al. 2008
EDUCATION
WITH GOOD NUTRITION CHILDREN
WILL STAY IN SCHOOL FOR AT LEAST
ONE EXTRA YEAR
Maluccio et al. 2009
WITH GOOD NUTRITION CHILDREN
ARE 33% MORE LIKELY TO ESCAPE
POVERTY AS ADULTS.
LIVELIHOODS
Hoddinott et al. 2011
EVERY DOLLAR INVESTED IN NUTRITION NETS
$16 IN RETURNS OVER A CHILD’S LIFETIME
ROI
Global Nutrition Report 2014
BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
Heckman 2008 (adapted)
Preschool programmes
Prenatal programmes and others targeted towards the earliest years
Schooling
Job training
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RATEOFRETURNONHUMANINVESTMENT
FIRST 1,000
DAYS 2-5 SCHOOL POST SCHOOL
AGE
7. Scale of the challenge
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WHY NUTRITION
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OFTEN INCURABLE
NOT JUST HUNGER
ALWAYS
PREVENTABLE
UNDERNUTRITION
Affects 1 in 4 children
under 5 globally
Stunting is the most common type of undernutrition
STUNTED CHILDREN
MAY LOSE UP TO
11 IQ POINTS
World Bank
STUNTED MOTHERS ARE 3X
MORE LIKELY TO GIVE BIRTH TO
A STUNTED CHILD
Özaltin et al. 2010
STUNTED CHILDREN MAY BE
4-6 INCHES SHORTER THAN
THEIR PEERS
Adair 1997
UNDERNUTRITION CONTRIBUTES TO HALF
OF ALL CHILD DEATHS EACH YEAR
de Onis et al. 2011
UNDERNUTRITION COSTS HOTSPOT
COUNTRIES UP TO 11% OF GDP
Horton and Steckel 2013
8. Nature of the opportunity
Investments in child nutrition can be very targeted
to save and improve the greatest number of lives.
With more financing and greater focus on good
nutrition, the end of undernutrition is within reach.
Snapshots of success. The experiences of places as
diverse as Ethiopia, India’s Maharashtra state, Nigeria
and Senegal show that some success in tackling and
reducing undernutrition is possible – providing lessons
for hotspot countries facing the biggest challenges.
Growing momentum. For the first time ever,
world leaders have adopted a target to end all forms of
malnutrition by 2030 under the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs). Financing for nutrition is still very
low – against any measure.
Golden moment. Big change requires bold action – to
lead the charge and demonstrate that focused action on
child undernutrition will trigger dramatic progress.
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WHY NUTRITION
ETHIOPIA
ETHIOPIA
MAHARASHTRA
SENEGAL
NIGERIA
SNAPSHOTS
OF SUCCESS
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10. MAHARASHTRA, INDIA
SNAPSHOTS OF SUCCESS:
Increased government commitment and
financing for nutrition, and a specific focus
on delivering basic nutrition supplements,
education and services for children and
their mothers.
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KEY STATS
UNDER 2 AND UNDER 5 STUNTING RATES
DROPPED DRAMATICALLY - ONE OF THE FASTEST
STUNTING REDUCTIONS EVER RECORDED
Global Nutrition Report 2014
Under 2’s
Under 5’s
45%
in 2006
30%
in 2012
39%
in 2006
23%
in 2012
ETHIOPIA
SNAPSHOTS OF SUCCESS:
01
WHY NUTRITION
Community-based delivery of basic nutrition
supplements during community health days,
nutrition education about infant and young
child feeding and nutrition services to treat the
most severe form of undernutrition.
UNDER 5 STUNTING RATES DROPPED:
FROM 67% IN 1992
TO 40% IN 2014
KEY STATS
AS DID UNDER 5 MORTALITY RATES:
Global Nutrition Report 2014
DOWN
TO
20%
1990
7%
2014
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WHY NUTRITION
SENEGAL
SNAPSHOTS OF SUCCESS:
Strong government leadership for
delivering basic nutrition supplements
for young children, and nutrition education
and counseling to pregnant women and new
mothers. There was also a broader focus on
improving water sanitation and access to
healthcare, which are closely linked to nutrition.
MOTHER-CHILD PAIRS HAVE
BENEFITED FROM BASIC
NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS
BETWEEN 2002 AND 2011.
KEY STATS
UNDER 5 STUNTING RATES DROPPED BY A THIRD
2000 2014
30% 19%
World Bank 2012
NIGERIA
SNAPSHOTS OF SUCCESS:
Community-based delivery of ready-to-use
therapeutic foods like fortified peanut butter
pastes and other nutrition services that treat
severe acute malnutrition – and cost less than
$160 per child cured.
MORE THAN 1 MILLION
CHILDREN HAVE BEEN TREATED AND OVER
100,000 LIVES SAVED
KEY STATS
Frankel et al. 2015
12. Good nutrition is an essential part of a healthy
life. Yet every day, millions of children die, are
sick, or are disadvantaged because they are not
receiving the right nutrition and care at the
right time. Investors in The Power of Nutrition
can change that, so good nutrition becomes the
new normal.”
Michael Anderson, CEO, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
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WHAT IS THE POWER OF NUTRITION?
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13. 13
02
WHAT IS THE POWER OF NUTRITION?
The Power of Nutrition is a new charitable
foundation — the only one of its kind —
dedicated to ending the cycle of undernutrition
and helping children grow to their full potential.
METHOD
We guarantee that every investment is multiplied 4 times
Our mission is to accelerate the fight
against undernutrition at a pace and
scale that few are able to achieve alone.
Multiply financing for critical, basic
nutrition supplements, services and
education. Invest it in country hotspots
to deliver measurable results at scale.
MISSION
APPROACH
BY 2020
100,000LIVES SAVED
5 HOTSPOTSIDENTIFIED
$1 BILLIONUNLOCKED IN NEW FINANCING
10 MILLIONCHILDREN PROTECTED FROM STUNTING
14. 02
WHAT IS THE POWER OF NUTRITION?
The Power of Nutrition
multiplies contributions from
each new investor by
4x – guaranteed. The full
amount is directed to
nutrition interventions on the
ground, not to the overhead
costs of operating the
charitable foundation.
The Power of Nutrition only
invests in a specific set of
interventions that deliver
high-quality basic nutrition
supplements, services and
education – that have been
tried, tested and proven to
prevent undernutrition at
low cost.
MULTIPLICATION
EVIDENCE
Proposition
The Power of Nutrition is open to all investors
committed to making strategic, transformational
financial contributions to child wellbeing
through nutrition.
This is a unique opportunity to join a like-minded
and highly respected partnership of some of the
world’s leading global investors and implementers
in the nutrition field.
Our investment principles:
The Power of Nutrition
scales up coverage of these
interventions in a targeted set
of hotspots in Sub-Saharan
Africa and Asia.
The Power of Nutrition
brings globally renowned
implementers together with
expert leadership in an agile,
credible and powerful alliance
led by the Executive and
guided by the Board
of Trustees.
The Power of Nutrition
monitors each investment
closely and reports back to
investors on performance and
reports back on performance
and progress twice each year.
EXPERTISE
RESULTS
SCALE
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15. 03
WHERE THE POWER OF NUTRITION INVESTS
The Power of Nutrition is helping to fuel
the growing global movement to give more
children the healthy start they need.”
Anthony Lake, Executive Director, UNICEF
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WHERE THE POWER OF NUTRITION INVESTS
The Power of Nutrition invests in hotspot
countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia where
the evidence shows that our investments will
have the largest sustainable reduction in child
undernutrition. Our objective is to invest in a total
of five hotspots by 2020.
A selection of potential hotspot countries
under consideration
The Breakdown
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1st hotspot and investment (Tanzania)
17. Our hotspots investments
The Power of Nutrition has identified Tanzania as its first hotspot.
We approved our first investment to the country in Summer 2015.
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18. Tanzania
Investment solution
The Power of Nutrition is financing a major new nutrition initiative
in Tanzania. This has triggered up to $44 million to scale up proven
nutrition interventions nationally – with more ambitious targets in
7 out of 30 regions:
• Increasing coverage of vitamin A supplementation for children under 5
• Increasing iron-folic acid supplementation coverage for pregnant women
• Deploying community health workers to promote nutrition education
around breastfeeding and complementary feeding to new mothers
This is a pay for results investment. The release of financing will be
contingent on the achievement of pre-defined targets that demonstrate
that performance is being delivered on the ground, thereby reducing risk.
This investment will support the country’s Big Results Now in Health
initiative, a new and innovative approach to public health service reform
that sets targets, establishes a plan to deliver against targets and tracks
progress regularly. The impact of The Power of Nutrition’s investment
will benefit from over $300 million of investment in this initiative.
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WHERE THE POWER OF NUTRITION INVESTS
More than one out of every three Tanzanian children under the age of
five is stunted. One of East Africa’s fastest-growing economies, Tanzania
has linked its commitment to ensuring good nutrition for all to its
broader ambitions to become a middle-income country by 2025.
Impact targets
25 MILLION
REACHING
MOTHERS CHILDREN
166,000
PREVENTING AT LEAST
CASES OF STUNTING
67,000
SAVING AT LEAST
LIVES
Background
PERFORMANCE WILL BE MONITORED
CLOSELY OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS.
REPORTS ON PROGRESS WILL BE
AVAILABLE TO INVESTORS TWICE YEARLY.
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Sources: Global Nutrition Report 2014; UNICEF, WHO
and World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Dataset 2014;
World Bank 2014
Under 5 population: 9.2 MILLION
Stunting rate: 35%
Severe wasting rate: 1%
Region: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Economic status: LOW INCOME
19. A selection of our countries under consideration
The Power of Nutrition is building a pipeline of new investments in other
potential hotspots. Some of the countries under consideration are profiled
here. Financing is not guaranteed and will be made available for only those
investments that meet our investment criteria and pass our investment
process (see Section 04).
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Background
Under 5 population: 15.4 MILLION
Stunting rate: 36%
Severe wasting rate: 3%
Region: SOUTH ASIA
Economic status: LOWER MIDDLE INCOME
Bangladesh
Challenge Solutions
In Bangladesh, gender and regional
inequality and low dietary diversity are
key factors in the nutrition status of
women and young children. Maternal
anaemia and micronutrient deficiencies
are high, and a third of all children under
the age of five are growing up stunted.
Bangladesh has made significant strides
in development in the past decade
and the Prime Minister has recently
declared nutrition a central component
of the country’s national development
agenda. The country’s national nutrition
programme focuses on scaling up a
comprehensive package of essential
nutrition activities in rural areas and
urban slums. It also focuses on women’s
empowerment, which is critical to
delivering large reductions in child
undernutrition and transforming the
country’s development trajectory.
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Sources: Global Nutrition Report 2014; UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Dataset 2014; World Bank 2014.
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WHERE THE POWER OF NUTRITION INVESTS
Cameroon
Challenge Solutions
In Cameroon, two in five children
under the age of five are stunted.
Poverty is widespread and
development progress has been slow,
including against the World Health
Assembly targets for nutrition.
Cameroon has growing domestic
support for nutrition. The country
is focusing on the 1,000-day window
as it builds a national nutrition
strategy and begins to tackle child
undernutrition. As Cameroon sets
its long-term nutrition strategy,
there is a key opportunity to support
the country in sustaining a focused
approached to essential nutrition
activities that address micronutrient
deficiencies, maternal nutrition and
the treatment of severe wasting.
Background
Under 5 population: 665,261
Stunting rate: 42%
Severe wasting rate: 2%
Region: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Economic status: LOW INCOME
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Sources: Global Nutrition Report 2014; UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Dataset 2014; World Bank 2014.
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WHERE THE POWER OF NUTRITION INVESTS
Ethiopia
Challenge Solutions
In Ethiopia, two out of every five
children under the age of five
are growing up stunted today.
Over the past decade, the country
has achieved the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) for
child mortality and water and has
dedicated significant attention to
improving social infrastructure.
Sustained attention to nutrition at
the national and community level is
still needed.
Ethiopia committed to ending
undernutrition by 2030 with the
Sequota Declaration. The country has
developed and is extending a sound
national nutrition programme and also
trains community health workers to
deliver a range of nutrition activities that
focus on the critical 1,000-day window
of opportunity. The potential for
delivering dramatic reductions in child
undernutrition is at an all-time high.
Background
Under 5 population: 14 MILLION
Stunting rate: 40%
Severe wasting rate: 2.5%
Region: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Economic status: LOW INCOME
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Sources: Global Nutrition Report 2014; UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Dataset 2014; World Bank 2014.
23. Background
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India
Challenge Solutions
India is one of the world’s largest
economies and a democracy, yet it’s
also home to a third of all stunted
children under the age of five.
Today, stunting affects nearly half
of all children in the country – with
higher rates for children from poor
backgrounds and states.
Certain states – Mahrashtra being
a notable example (see page 10)
– have begun making progress in
driving down rates of stunting.
Relatively small amounts of
financing and technical support
can have an outsized impact in
the country given the strength of
existing government systems.Under 5 population: 124 MILLION
Stunting rate: 39%
Severe wasting rate: 5%
Region: SOUTH ASIA
Economic status: LOWER MIDDLE INCOME
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Sources: Global Nutrition Report 2014; UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Dataset 2014; World Bank 2014.
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WHERE THE POWER OF NUTRITION INVESTS
Liberia
Challenge Solutions
In Liberia, a third of children under
the age of five are growing up
stunted. Wasting is also a challenge.
Post-Ebola, the country struggles
with weak infrastructure and
health systems.
Liberia has identified nutrition as
a national priority and established
a national nutrition programme
in 2012. This trains community
health workers to deliver essential
nutrition activities like educating
mothers about breastfeeding and
complementary feeding for infants
aged 6-24 months. The country is
rebuilding and strengthening its
health system post-Ebola. Now is the
time to ensure that nutrition remains
a clear focus in this process.
Background
Under 5 population: 686,000
Stunting rate: 32%
Severe wasting rate: 2%
Region: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Economic status: LOW INCOME
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Sources: Global Nutrition Report 2014; UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Dataset 2014; World Bank 2014.
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WHERE THE POWER OF NUTRITION INVESTS
Madagascar
Challenge Solutions
Madagascar, an island nation
off the East coast of Africa, is
fighting undernutrition. In some
regions, including the fertile
central highlands, as many as 60%
of children under five are stunted.
High rates are also seen in areas
where sanitation and healthcare
are relatively strong, challenging
conventional approaches to
reducing undernutrition.
A new national nutrition investment
plan has been drawn up for the
period 2015-20 and targets a 34%
reduction in undernutrition. This will
include scaling up 12 evidence-based
interventions like providing iron-folic
acid supplements for pregnant mothers
and education around child feeding.
Background
Under 5 population: 3.3 MILLION
Stunting rate: 50%
Severe wasting rate: NO DATA
Region: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Economic status: LOW INCOME
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Sources: Global Nutrition Report 2014; UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Dataset 2014; World Bank 2014.
26. Background
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Niger
Challenge Solutions
In Niger, more than two in five children
under the age of five are stunted. Rates
of severe wasting are high.
The Ministry of Health has
successfully scaled up life-saving
treatment of severe wasting
so that as many as 400,000
children can be covered each
year. Comprehensive packages of
essential nutrition activities that
focus on the 1,000-day window
are also being successfully
implemented at the community
level, but coverage is low. As
the country finalises and begins
implementing a national nutrition
policy, more financing can help
ensure that treatment activities
continue and that prevention
activities are taken to scale.
Under 5 population: 3.6 MILLION
Stunting rate: 43%
Severe wasting rate: 7%
Region: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Economic status: LOW INCOME
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Sources: Global Nutrition Report 2014; UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Dataset 2014; World Bank 2014.
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HOW THE POWER OF NUTRITION INVESTS
The Financial Times, July 2015
The Power of Nutrition is a symbol of a bigger
trend … an example of what many people see
as a future in which private capital has to play a
much greater role in helping the world’s poor.”
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HOW THE POWER OF NUTRITION INVESTS
Our investment process
The Executive is involved at every stage
of the investment process so that each
investment is targeted where it will make
the biggest difference. Each investment will
be assessed against a specific set of criteria
before financing is released. No investment
can be made without the approval of both
the Executive and the Board of Trustees.
TURNING INVESTMENT INTO IMPACT
Turning investment into impact
We approve a programme with the
highest potential for impact
2
Each dollar is
multiplied 4 times
4The total is directed to
the approved programme
5
The programme is delivered
by our implementing partners
6 Every investment prevents undernutrition
and enables children to grow to their
full potential
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SUPPLEMENTS
NUTRITION
SERVICES
The Power of Nutrition seeks out opportunities to
invest in nutrition programmes in our focus countries
1
An investor
contributes
3
X4
EDUCATING
MOTHERS
D
A C
B
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HOW THE POWER OF NUTRITION INVESTS
Presence of significant
new co-financing for
nutrition activities at
country level, including
allocations from
countries themselves in
some cases.
A specific set of
evidence-based
interventions that
deliver high-quality
basic nutrition
supplements, services
and education – and
have been tried, tested
and proven to prevent
undernutrition.
INTERVENTIONS
Hotspot countries in
Sub-Saharan Africa and
Asia with under five
stunting rates above
30% and total under
five stunted populations
greater than 250,000.
LOCATION
NEED
CO-FINANCING
Our investment criteria
A shared ambition
to deliver dramatic
reductions in child
undernutrition and a
realistic plan and set of
targets for achieving this.
RESULTS
A robust monitoring
and evaluation approach
agreed with each
implementing partner,
including updates every
6 months.Strong government
buy-in within each
hotspot, including
the ability to put new
financing to effective
use at scale.
COMMITMENT
CAPACITY
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MONITORING
EVALUATION
30. A selection of the nutrition interventions we finance
NUTRITION INTERVENTION WHAT DOES IT INVOLVE? WHY DOES IT MATTER?
SUPPLEMENTS
VITAMIN A SUPPLEMENTATION Provision of supplements
Delivery through existing health care platforms (e.g.,
child health days)
Vitamin A supplementation reduces all-cause and
diarrhoea-related mortality
SALT IODISATION Iodisation of salt at point of processing
Targeted to pregnant women
Salt iodisation increases birth weight and leads to
10-20 percent higher developmental scores
IRON AND FOLIC ACID Provision of supplements to pregnant women
Delivery through existing antenatal care platforms
Iron and folic acid supplementation for pregnant
women leads to higher birth weight
MULTIPLE MICRONUTRIENT POWDERS Provision of micronutrient powders to children
Demand generation including strategic
communications
Significant reductions in anaemia
IRON FORTIFICATION OF STAPLES Product fortification at point of processing
(e.g., flours)
Iron fortification results in 41 percent reduction in
the risks of anaemia
EDUCATION
PROMOTION OF BREASTFEEDING Community-based education and behaviour change Early breast feeding reduces all-cause and
infection-related mortality by 45 percent
COMPLEMENTARY FEEDING Community-based education and behaviour change
Provision of complementary foods
Complementary feeding results in increased height
and weight
HAND WASHING WITH SOAP Community-based education and behaviour change
Communications (e.g., mass media)
Hand washing with soap reduces the risk
of diarrhoea
SERVICES
MANAGEMENT OF SEVERE ACUTE
MALNUTRITION (SAM)
Community-based therapeutic feeding using ready-to-
use foods (RUTF)
Provision of RUTF leads to faster weight gain,
improved recovery, and reduced mortality
THERAPEUTIC ZINC FOR DIARRHOEA Access to zinc supplements and demand creation
Community-level delivery platforms
Zinc treatment for diarrhoea leads to a 46 percent
reduction in all-cause mortality
DEWORMING Delivery of deworming drugs
School-based or through healthcare system
Treating children who are infected with worms
increases weight gain
Sources: World Bank 2010 (adapted), Lancet 2013
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31. Phyllis Costanza, CEO, UBS Optimus Foundation
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The Power of Nutrition is a groundbreaking
new fund that will help many more children
reach their full potential by ensuring they get the
right nutrients early in life. It’s an investment in
children, families and communities that will last.”
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32. Who we are
The Power of Nutrition brings globally renowned
implementers together with expert leadership in an agile,
credible and powerful alliance led by the Executive and guided
by the independent Board of Trustees and Board Observers.
All new investments, funders and implementers will be
thoroughly vetted under the dual oversight of the Executive
and the Board. Our first implementing partners are UNICEF
and the World Bank.
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Executive
Martin Short – Chief Executive Officer
Michelle Thompson – Partnerships Brands
Alethea Dopart – Communications
Anna Thornley – Recruitment
Christopher Skeet – Finance
Board of Trustees
Michael Anderson (Chair) – Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
Yoka Brandt – UNICEF
Phyllis Costanza – UBS Optimus Foundation
Augustin Flory – Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
Jonathan Brinsden – Bircham Dyson Bell
Board Observers
Liz Ditchburn – Department for International Development
Tim Evans – World Bank Group
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33. The Children’s Investment Fund
Foundation (CIFF) is an independent
philanthropic organisation working
to trans-form the lives of poor and
vulnerable children in developing
countries. CIFF emphasises the use
of quality data and evidence in its
programmes, which cover four key
areas: climate change, education, health
and nutrition.
The UBS Optimus Foundation is
the philanthropic offering for clients
of UBS, the largest global wealth
manage-ment firm. UBS Optimus
Foundation is dedicated to helping
UBS clients fund innovative and
high-impact programmes around the
world that ensure that some of the
most marginalised children around
the world are safe, healthy, educated
and ready for their future.
The Department for
International Development
(DFID) leads the UK’s work
to end extreme poverty by
creating jobs, unlocking the
potential of girls and women,
and helping to save lives when
humanitarian emergencies hit.
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UNICEF promotes the rights and
wellbeing of every child, with a special
focus on reaching those in need. It
provides expertise in delivering highly
effective nutrition interventions and
programmes in over 120 countries. It is
also one of the world’s largest mobilisers
of resources for social development
causes benefiting children.
The World Bank Group is working to
end extreme poverty and boost shared
prosperity for the bottom 40% of citizens
in every country by 2030. The Bank’s
International Development Association
(IDA) is one of the largest sources of
assistance for the world’s 77 poorest
countries. IDA provides loans and grants for
programmes that boost economic growth,
reduce inequalities, and improve people’s
living conditions, including those that
address undernutrition.
Implem
enting
Partner
s
Our growing partnership
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04 – South Sudanese mother and daughter refugees in Uganda / UNICEF/UGDA2015-00378/Nakibuuk. 09 – Screening for severe acute
malnutrition using Middle-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) tape / CIFF. 10 – Ethiopia / CIFF. 11 – Nigeria / CIFF and Senegal /
Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images Reportage. 17 – CIFF. 18 – Distribution of iron-folic tablets to pregnant women in Laos / UNICEF/
Lao2015-0136/Noorani. 19 – New mother is shown how to breastfeed by a volunteer community health worker in Indonesia / UNICEF/
NYHQ2013-0895/Ferguson. 20 – Scott Wallace/World Bank 2014. 21 – Breastfeeding in Cameroon / UNICEF/NYHQ2012-0260/Asse.
22 – Hand-washing in Ethiopia / UNICEF/HQ12/Olivier Asselin. 23 – CIFF. 24 – UNICEF/UKLA2014-04956/Chandra. 25 – Screening
for severe acute malnutrition using MUAC tape in Madagascar / UNICEF/PFPG2015-3445/Stang. 26 – CIFF. 30 – Top / A child
receives vitamin A drops in Kiribati / UNICEF/HQ06/Pirozzi. Middle / Mixing micronutrient powder into a child’s portion of food in
Laos / UNICEF/Lao2015-0160/Noorani. Bottom / CIFF. 32 – The Power of Nutrition launch event / World Bank 2015. 34 – Mixing
micronutrient powder into a child’s portion of food in Laos / UNICEF/Lao2015-0167/Noorani.
Definitions
Stunting: A chronic form of undernutrition that inhibits a child’s physical and cognitive development. It is defined by shortness in
height compared to others of the same age group and is almost entirely preventable if caught in time.
Wasting: A less common but much deadlier form of undernutrition. It is defined as low weight or thinness compared to others of the
same age group. If caught in time, life-saving treatments can be provided.
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