A CALL TO ACTION : MAKE THE 2016 WHA THE FIRST ACHIEVEMENT OF THE DECADE OF ACTION ON NUTRITION

The World Health Assembly (WHA) is an important forum to influence the global health policy landscape. The 69th WHA represents a critical window of opportunity to sustain much needed nutrition momentum to help achieve previously set WHA targets and the SDGs, and accelerate progress towards the global goals. Thus, we urge Member states to ensure that resolutions voted in 2016 are reflective of a high level of ambition to adequately launch the Decade of Action on Nutrition.

Over 80 NGOs and coalitions call on governments to vote an ambitious resolution on the Decade of Action on Nutrition.

It is now crucial that this Decade of Action does not remain an empty shell. This document details what we need to make the opportunity of the 69th WHA the ambitious first step to pave the way towards a new nutrition era and to eradicate hunger and malnutrition.