STUNTING | THE By 2025, reduce by 40% the number

1
GOAL of children aged under 5 years
who are stunted

WHY IT MATTERS RECOMMENDED ACTIONS

Stunting is a largely irreversible

SCALE UP PREVENTION
outcome of
inadequate nutrition
& repeated bouts Scale up coverage of
WHAT? stunting-prevention activities
of infection Improve the identification,
during the first HOW? measurement and
1,000 days understanding of stunting

of a child’s life
MATERNAL NUTRITION
Improve the nutrition of
? Stunting has WHAT?
women of reproductive age
long-term effects, Enact policies and/or
HOW?
including: Diminished strengthen interventions
to improve maternal nutrition
cognitive and physical
and health, beginning with
development, reduced
adolescent girls
productive capacity and
poor health
SUPPORT BREASTFEEDING
WHAT? Support optimal breastfeeding
Stunted children have an practices
increased risk of becoming
HOW? Implement interventions for
overweight or improved exclusive
obese later breastfeeding and complementary
feeding practices
in life
COMMUNITY SUPPORT
Provide community-based strategies to prevent
Reduced school attendance results in WHAT? infection-related causes of stunting
diminished earning capacity;
an average of 22% loss of yearly HOW? Strengthen community-based
interventions, including improved
income in adulthood water, sanitation and hygiene

Globally, approximately SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
are home to three quarters of the
162 million children world’s stunted children
under the age of 5 years are stunted
40% of 39% of
40% children under 39% children under
5 are stunted 5 are stunted

Sub-Saharan Africa South Asia

To improve maternal, infant

and young child nutrition