Kasapo Chibwe from Des Plaines, IL. Pronouns She/her

Kathy Shearer from Newark DE. Advocating with Together Women Rise.

Welcome! This is the "Why we must do more on child nutrition" workshop. We’ll be starting in a few minutes.

Aaron Carrillo, calling in from Wichita, Ks. He/him/ His

Hi everyone. Keith (he/him)-Cleveland

so excited to be here with you all!

Hi everyone. Yvonne Montoya here calling in from Salina, KS. She/Her

Hello everyone this is dede from asapsu Côte d’Ivoire 🇨🇮

Hi Dede! Welcome, so happy you're here!

UNICEF child alert: https://www.unicef.org/child-alert/severe-wasting

If $300 million increase would address wasting, who would that money go to, and ho would it be used?

Great question Roger! My understanding - but Kathleen please jump in - is that it would be used to buy and distribute ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF), such as plumpy'nut

Many organizations - including USAID - buy and distribute RUTF but UNICEF buys and distributes about 80% of all RUTF globally.

IRC op-ed: https://www.devex.com/news/opinion-war-in-ukraine-is-driving-a-malnutrition-crisis-enter-rutf-103343

I figured out why lol

Does your organization collaborate with other orgs/non profits imbedded in other Indigenous communities, across Latin America?

Sarah, they are part of El Colectivo which is a group of NGOs in Guatemala. And they work with USAID at a minimum

awesome, thanks Leslye!

Edelia is the manufacturer of Plumpynut

Edesia

What Anne is saying reminds me of how important it is to have the local government of countries where kids are starving aware of the severity of the situation andhave them commit to take action. We must continue advocacy directly to those governments

Thank you Anne for the heartfelt testimony from the ground 👏

There is a huge gap in the financing for nutrition interventions like what Anne is describing and what has been pledged. Despite the historic $27 billion pledge total at the Nutrition for Growth Summit last December, analysis shows that there is a gage of $10.8 billion/year over 2022−2030 just for "nutrition-specific" services. Accounting for nutrition-sensitive needs towards the full gamut of SDG 2 targets, the total needs are estimated at US$39−50 billion per year.

Advocacy month resources you can access: https://results.org/resources/2022-international-conference-resources/

Can we get a copy of the study mentioned?

The RTCs?

Here's an a resource about the financing gaps: https://globalnutritionreport.org/reports/2021-global-nutrition-report/financing-nutrition/

Here on our research page you can see our RCTs and Research in Nutrition and other interventions: https://www.wuqukawoq.org/research/

A new report from IRC on the opportunity to simplify and scale treatment: https://www.rescue.org/report/untapped-opportunity-simplifying-and-scaling-wasting-treatment