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Table 2: Recent Global Nutrition Milestones Year Milestone Copenhagen Consensus 2006 Ending Child Hunger and Undernutrition Initiative: Global Framework for Action Significance • Determines that nutrition is one of the most cost-effective buys in development investments. • Recognizes the need for a renewed global effort to address hunger and undernutrition. The Lancet’s Series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition 2008 2009 • Helps forge consensus on effective high-impact nutrition-related interventions and policies in developing countries, and on related evidence-based actions proven to accelerate progress on maternal/child malnutrition. Copenhagen Consensus on Malnutrition and Hunger1 • Highlights cost-effective interventions for improving nutrition as identified by a group of world-renowned economists. These researchers list micronutrient supplements for child survival as the top international development priority of more than 40 interventions considered. • Emphasizes good nutrition for young children, especially nutrients that children under two need for growth2 U.S. Global Health Initiative3 Feed the Future, the U.S. Government’s Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative 2010 1,000 Days/Scaling Up Nutrition Partnership Launch • Designates nutrition as one of the eight core areas of integration (a key GHI principle) and prioritizes scaling up4 proven, evidence-based nutrition approaches. • Sets goal of reducing child undernutrition by 30 percent in food-insecure countries (in conjunction with Feed the Future). • Designates improved nutrition as one of six focus areas and supports countryowned programs for undernutrition, especially for children under five. • Works to jump-start the implementation of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Framework and Roadmap to help end undernutrition during pregnancy and early childhood. • Emphasizes a “window of opportunity” (from pregnancy to two years old) for a high priority package of evidence-based and cost-effective health and nutrition interventions to reduce death and disease. If implemented at scale and supported by appropriate policies, these effective interventions can significantly improve nutrition for the most vulnerable groups—undernourished mothers and children. Remaining Notes from Table 1 • • • • • • • (-) Denotes evidence for implementation in specific, situational contexts (based on The Lancet’s series). * Denotes UNICEF High-Impact Nutrition Interventions. Not in the table: Nutrition Security in Emergencies and Nutrition and HIV/AIDS. ^ Denotes UNICEF Accelerated Child Survival Interventions. (ENA) Denotes the Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA) framework that was developed with the support of USAID and has been implemented across Africa and Asia since 1997. It encompasses women’s nutrition during pregnancy and lactation, optimal IYCF (breastfeeding and complementary feeding), nutritional care of sick and malnourished children (including zinc, vitamin A and ready-to-use therapeutic foods), and the control of anemia, vitamin A, and iodine deficiencies. $ Denotes what is specifically supported by USAID’s research-to-use nutrition strategy; does not include providing nutritional care and support for people living with malaria, TB, HIV/AIDS, and other infectious diseases; does not includ