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• Undertake a country specific analysis of current status, country willingness and existing interventions in the
five categories to identify gaps and challenges and select priority interventions for scale up
• Develop a detailed country-level action plan
• Map and organize the demand/need for inputs and human and financial resources
• Cost the action plan
• Match programme and resource supply and demand at country level
• Support resource mobilization to meet gaps
• Implement the country-level action plans, through existing and proposed operations and delivery channels
• Track progress and evaluate results of above actions
Country-level action, in practical terms for UN Teams, will require UN agencies to support and work within a
nationally-led country-level planning action to identify how they can respond to nationally defined needs.
For Country Offices level, this will mean engaging in the action planning exercise with the government and
partners in the 36 countries identified. The results will likely reinforce the relevance of much of existing work.
The above activities are part of the four agencies’ core business and many country offices are already
engaged in inter-agency efforts to act at scale in nutrition. For those Country Offices, REACH should build
upon and strengthen on-going efforts. However, in several other countries REACH could be an opportunity to
bring synergy within UN country teams to support governments to adjust, modify and identify opportunities to
scale-up as appropriate, to fit within the country-level action plan.
The REACH team aims to support new efforts and to boost on-going efforts, as defined under the proposed
scope of work below. In 2008, REACH plans to support two countries: Mauritania and Laos. A third country
will also be identified to link in a local food purchase pilot. In 2009, additional countries will be supported by
the REACH coalition, including eight countries where WHO is already undertaking an in-depth readiness
analysis (WHO 2008).
Contact: Denise.CostaCoitinho@wfp.org
References
Maternal and Child Undernutrition Study Group (2008) Maternal and child undernutrition. The Lancet 371(9608-12).
Available at www.thelancet.com/collections/series/undernutrition
UNICEF (2007) Progress for Children: A World Fit for Children Statistical Review. Number 6 December 2007. (online)
WHO (2008) Landscape Analysis on Countries' Readiness to Accelerate Action in Nutrition. Available at
www.who.int/nutrition/topics/landscape_analysis. Accessed 3 September 2008.
Summary figure: REACH focus is on country action with
One goal
Ending child hunger and undernutrition — within a generation!
Two
targets
By 2015:
Halve the proportion of people who suffer from
hunger as measured by prevalence of underweight
children under 5 (MDG 1, Target 2)
Beyond 2015:
Achieve sustainable acceleration of
the rate of reduction in child underweight
Three
approaches
Global Partnership
support and strengthen
collaboration and knowhow
exchange on child
hunger and undernutrition
Country action
support national capacity
to scale-up and deliver
evidence-based solutions
Advocacy
promote effective, integrated
policies and programs;
strategically align
with existing efforts
Four
outcomes
Increased awareness
of the problem and of
potential solutions
Strengthened national
policies and programmes
Increased capacity at
all levels for action
Increased efficiency
and accountability of
global efforts
Source: REACH internal communication
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