Table 1 U.S. Government Funding for Nutrition*
Nutrition only captures 1.53% of FY 2012 GHI Funding Requests
FY 2009 • $54 M
Nutrition 1%
FY 2010 • $75 M
Family Planning/
Reproductive Health
3%
FY 2011 • $89 M
FY 2012 • $95 M
Maternal & Child
Health 9%
FY 2013 (requested) • $90 M
0
20
40
60
Health Systems
Strengthening
(& Global Fund)
15%
Neglected Tropical
Diseases 1%
80
HIV/AIDS
57%
Malaria 8%
100
U.S. Dollars in Millions
* Without Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) equivalent funding
Tuberculosis 6%
Source: Executive Budget Summary, Function 150 & Other International Programs, Department of State. Fiscal Year 2013. Table 12k: Nutrition by Account.
InterAction, Federal Budget Tables FY 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012.
Table Notes: In May 2009, President Obama pledged $63 billion to the Global Health Initiative over six years.42 Eighty-one percent43 of the proposed funding was allocated
for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and malaria. Recognizing recent budget increases,44 nutrition only remains a focus of 1.53 percent45 ($95 million
enacted for FY 2012) of the total GHI funding, despite its designation as of one of the eight core targeted global health program areas. A further decrease of -5.3 percent
($5 million) to $90 million was requested in the President’s FY 2013 budget46 for nutrition.
available.40 As mentioned earlier, funding for nutrition is
spread across multiple budgetary accounts, and there are
nutrition components of various programs. Both the FY
2012 and FY 2013 budget requests provide greater levels of
detail and transparency on nutrition funding. The FY 2013
congressional budget justification took the additional step
of breaking out nutrition funding across four accounts that
have nutrition components.41 This is a helpful step, but it
does not capture all nutrition programming.
Moving forward, it is important