Global targets tracking tool

WHO Member States endorsed six global nutrition targets for improving maternal, infant and young child nutrition in 2012.

The translation of the global targets into national ones needs to consider nutrition profiles, risk factor trends, demographic changes, experience with developing and implementing nutrition policies, and health system development.

WHO, in collaboration with UNICEF and the EC, developed the Tracking Tool to help countries set their national targets and monitor progress. This tool allows users to explore scenarios taking into account different rates of progress for the six targets and the time left to 2025.

The tool is available in English, French, Russian and Spanish.

The tool has three modules:

1. Country indicators profiles

2. Indicator mapping

3. Global and regional overviews

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The tool’s underlying data will be updated as new estimates of the target indicators become available.

Outputs from the Tracking Tool feed into the Global Monitoring Framework for Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition, the WHO The Thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW 13) report, the Global Nutrition Report, the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report, and reports from other global initiatives like the SUN Movement and the UN Secretary-General’s Zero Hunger Challenge.

The tool complements existing tools on nutrition interventions, impact and costing (see links under Other tools).

Global targets indicators

WHO and partners built an online tracking tool to help countries adapt the six global nutrition targets to national contexts and monitor indicator progress. The comparable country indicator estimates come from internationally recognized sources. This interactive platform allows users to:

produce country indicator profiles on the current status and required progress
explore alternative rates of change and their impact (what-if analysis)
map latest target indicator estimates globally and for country groups
access summary reports on the six nutrition targets
visualize global target status and trends

Policy briefs

Recognizing that accelerated global action is needed to address the pervasive and corrosive problem of the double burden of malnutrition, in 2012 the World...

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Global nutrition targets 2025: stunting policy brief

Childhood stunting is one of the most significant impediments to human development, globally affecting approximately 162 million children under the age...

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Global nutrition targets 2025: anaemia policy brief

Anaemia impairs health and well being in women and increases the risk of maternal and neonatal adverse outcomes. Anaemia affects half a billion women of...

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Global nutrition targets 2025: low birth weight policy brief

Low birth weight is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as weight at birth less than 2500 g (5.5 lb). Low birth weight continues to be a significant...

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Global nutrition targets 2025: childhood overweight policy brief

There has been a dramatic rise in the numbers of children under 5 years of age who are overweight. According to the new 2013 United Nations Children’s...

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Global nutrition targets 2025: breastfeeding policy brief

Exclusive breastfeeding – defined as the practice of only giving an infant breast-milk for the first 6 months of life (no other food or water) –...

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Global nutrition targets 2025: wasting policy brief

The global target for 2025 will be achieved if high burden countries take stock of their current prevalence, projected population growth, underlying causes...

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Global nutrition targets 2025 - wasting

Acknowledgements

Yves Martin-Prevel with support from Pauline Allemand, IRD, developed a prototype for the stunting tool. Elaine Borghi and Monika Blössner from the WHO Department of Nutrition provided data and technical advice for this pilot project, financed by the European Commission.

The expanded and enhanced web-based tool covering all six global nutrition target indicators was developed by Elaine Borghi and Monika Blössner, WHO Department of Nutrition, together with Roderic Mills, IT consultant.

Julia Krasevec, UNICEF data and analytics unit, provided the data and target design for exclusive breastfeeding and also reviewed the tool development versions.

Additional valuable suggestions and ideas were received from Yves Martin-Prevel (IRD), Pauline Allemand (FAO), Lina Mahy (UNSCN), Patrizia Fracassi and Shaoyu Lin (SUN), Rebecca Olson and Jennifer Rigg (1000days), Ellen Piwoz (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), Lawrence Haddad (IFPRI), Georgina Fekete (Child Investment Fund Foundation), and Katrin Engelhardt, Gretchen Stevens, Mercedes de Onis and Francesco Branca from WHO.

The team is also grateful for the continuous support from WHO IT staff at Geneva and Kuala Lumpur.