Wasting Advocacy Coalition
The Wasting Advocacy Coalition is a civil society-led, multi-stakeholder global initiative working to ensure that every child vulnerable to wasting has access to prevention and treatment.
The coalition advocates to:
- Close the treatment coverage gap with the ultimate goal of ensuring that all children with global acute malnutrition (GAM) can access treatment, while prioritising the most severe cases.
- Scale up detection and prevention so that malnourished children are identified early and protected from deterioration due to moderate to severe wasting.
- Promote innovative, evidence-based approaches to prevent and treat wasting within national nutrition policies, and encourage global systems to enable flexibility and responsiveness to national plans.
- Mobilise sustainable resources, increasing long-term and multi-annual global and domestic financing, and promoting effective, efficient, and scaled up co-financing to address both direct and underlying causes of child wasting, with a significant portion of global resources directed towards nationally-led plans.
- Strengthen accountability mechanisms through transparent tracking of financing, operations, and logistics of wasting treatment and prevention, and by supporting the implementation of global wasting policies at national level.
- Foster coordinated multi-sectoral action to build resilience in primary and community health systems, through strengthened overall health systems, sustainable food systems, and robust social protection and safety nets.
How the coalition works
Wasting Advocacy Coalition members collaborate through joint activities such as:
- engaging in multilateral forums and policy processes
- co-producing advocacy materials and policy recommendations
- running social media campaigns and issuing coalition statements
- sharing information and hosting discussions with key stakeholders and decision-makers
- briefing and being briefed by UN agencies and governments
The coalition also works to strengthen consensus across the sector, ensuring that all efforts remain firmly centred on children's needs. All members are required to avoid conflicts of interest and to act in ways that prioritise children above any commercial or business interest.
The coalition is co-chaired by Save the Children and World Vision International. To join the mailing list or for more information, please reach out to Elizabeth Margolis.
