“We will support children and mothers to improve their nutritional outcomes, and support children to lead, deliver, and participate in advocacy and campaigns."
PARIS, 27 March 2025 – Save the Children has pledged US$663 million on the first day of the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit in Paris towards ending child malnutrition in some of the most challenging environments on earth.
Data launched yesterday from the Standing Together for Nutrition Consortium estimates that the collapse in nutrition funding globally may cut off treatment for 2.3 million severely malnourished children and lead to 369,000 extra child deaths each year.
Meanwhile, already about 1.12 billion children globally – or 48% of the world’s children – are unable to afford a balanced diet, with hikes in food prices combined with the increasing cost of living around the world forcing millions of families to eat less adequate, less balanced and less diverse food, putting child development and wellbeing at risk.
In response to these challenges – and at the opening of the Nutrition for Growth summit in Paris – Save the Children is committing to continue its mission to end malnutrition in all its forms.
Announcing Save the Children’s commitment, CEO Inger Ashing said:
“I am pleased to announce an ambitious commitment towards ending child malnutrition despite – or indeed in response to – challenges facing aid agencies around the world. We will not abandon children now or in the future and ending malnutrition in all its forms remains a priority for Save the Children.
“Save the Children will spend a minimum investment of $663 million between 2025 – 2027 to help ensure children survive and thrive, including $170 million on nutrition specific interventions.
“We will support children and mothers to improve their nutritional outcomes, and support children to lead, deliver, and participate in advocacy and campaigns.
“We will do that by expanding equitable and accessible services, build healthy and resilient communities, and continue to champion advocacy to ensure that structures and systems realise children’s right to nutrition.
“We commit to promoting nutrition integration, alongside key partners such as the Scaling Up Nutrition movement, and through our work as part of the Nutrition Integration Compact.
“We also commit to progressively mainstream disability inclusion across our nutrition programming, scaling up key disability inclusion initiatives in nutrition programmes in ten new countries by 2027.”
