Global nutrition monitoring framework: operational guidance for tracking progress in meeting targets for 2025

Overview

In 2012, the World Health Assembly (WHA) approved a Comprehensive Implementation Plan on Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition that identified six global targets related to priority nutrition outcomes to be achieved by 2025. In 2014, Member States approved the Global Nutrition Monitoring Framework (GNMF) on Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition that included six global targets. In 2015, the Executive Board endorsed the additional fourteen core indicators, but requested clarifications and further operational aspects for Member States including the uniform definitions of the indicator, recommended frequency of data collection, availability of data, operational aspects of data collection and evidence for the validity of the selected indicators.

The objectives of GNMF (6) are: (i) to monitor progress towards the achievement of the six global targets (for use at global and national levels); (ii) to track implementation of selected programmes required to achieve the global targets (for use at global and national level); and (iii) to track implementation of all programmes required to achieve national targets (for use at national and at subnational levels).