Malawi has strong policies and frameworks for nutrition but insufficient funding to implement them.

Malawi is one of the most committed countries in Africa to improving nutrition, yet it still has one of the highest rates of malnutrition in the region and is struggling to turn commitments into action at scale.

Malawi has made significant progress in improving nutrition outcomes in the past decades. Despite this, the rates of stunting and anaemia remain high and overweight and obesity amongst women is rising.

A review of evidence was conducted to understand the trends and determinants of malnutrition and identify interventions and programmes that improved maternal and child nutrition in Malawi.

Burkina Faso has made impressive improvements in nutrition over the last 30 years. Stunting rates among children under five have declined (from 45% in 1998/99 to 25% in 2018) and known nutrition drivers have improved.

Au Burkina Faso, la nutrition a enregistré des progrès considérables au cours des 30 dernières années.

Au cours de la dernière décennie, le Ghana a enregistré une importante baisse des cas de retard de croissance chez les enfants de moins de cinq ans.

In the past decade, Ghana has seen a significant reduction in stunting among children under five years of age.

Vietnam has achieved significant progress in reducing undernutrition over the past several decades, but ethnic minority groups are being systematically left behind and this is limiting progress on national reductions.

After several years of growing political commitment, with more and more pledges and declarations and an increasing focus on data and on evidence, the international nutrition community has come to recognise the power of narrative.