Meeting the six World Health Assembly nutrition targets by 2025 will require significant resources to scale up nutrition interventions globally. Estimates indicate the total cost could be tens of billions of dollars annually. Current spending on nutrition is a fraction of what is needed to meet the targets. Various scenarios will be modeled to quantify the resource gaps and identify domestic and external financing pathways that could help close the gaps from public and private sources. The goal is to inform financing discussions and commitments at upcoming nutrition summits and financing for development meetings.

1. Meera Shekar (WB)
Financing
Planning, Costing and Financing
Community of Practice
Questions

2. What will it cost to meet the six WHA nutrition targets?
How can we leverage financing to meet those needs?
(Building on previous costing and financing estimates)
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• Stunting
• Breastfeeding*Phase 1
• Wasting
• AnemiaPhase 2
Outputs for:
Addis FfD
July 2015
Rio Nutrition
Summit
June 2016
TBD(Possible)Phase 3
•Low Birth Weight
•Childhood Overweight
Possible

3. Estimating the costs & resource gaps to meet the WHA nutrition
targets, & identifying financing pathways to fill the gaps
Total cost of
nutrition
scale-up to
meet WHA
targets
External
Domestic
Out of pocket
Resource
gap
Possible scenarios to be modeled
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Projected
2025
Totalnutritionspendingglobally
(US$billions)
2. Moderate
expansion of
funding
3. Continuation of
recent trends
4. Flat-lining
Available
financing
sources
1. Maximum effort:
resources needed are
fully mobilized