The foundation made the pledge at the recently concluded Global Nutrition Summit 2017, held in Milan, Italy, which brought together governments, international agencies,
foundations, civil society organisations and businesses to accelerate the global response to malnutrition, an underlying cause of nearly half of all global child deaths.
The Aliko Dangote
Foundation has pledged to invest $100m over five years to tackle malnutrition
in the worst-affected parts of Nigeria.
The summit is the global
forum of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2026). This year’s edition was held in close
partnership with a number of international stakeholders, including the United
Kingdom’s Department for International Development, World Health Organisation,
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN, Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation and the International Coalition on Advocacy for Nutrition.
The governments of
Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Zambia all made commitments to expand
their nutrition programmes and the summit succeeded in galvanising $3.4bn,
according to the organisers.
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