Borces, Kyle, Mary D’Alimonte, Augustin Flory, Research for Development, May 2020
COVID-19 is placing additional strain on nutrition programs’ limited resources. This blog post identifies three key trends in nutrition financing in the current context including increasing rates of malnutrition, challenges to social sector funding, and an unfavorable outlook for nutrition-specific aid. The authors assert that the nutrition community will need to push more than ever to mobilize funding commitments at the upcoming Nutrition for Growth Summit in 2021, and in the meantime, make sure that recovery efforts for COVID-19 are as nutrition-sensitive as possible.