Comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition

Overview

Adequate nutrition, beginning in early stages of life, is crucial to ensure good physical and mental development and long-term health.

This action plan illustrates a series of priority actions that should be jointly implemented by Member States and international partners to achieve, by the year 2025, six global nutrition targets:

• 40% reduction of the global number of children under five who are stunted
• 50% reduction of anaemia in women of reproductive age
• 30% reduction of low birth weight
• no increase in childhood overweight
• increase the rate of exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months up to at least 50%
• reduce and maintain childhood wasting to less than 5%

Related information

• WHA65/6
  Comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition
  21–26 May 2012
• Global Targets 2025
  To improve maternal, infant and young child nutrition