Reducing stunting in children: equity considerations for achieving the global targets 2025

Overview

Reducing health inequalities and leaving no one behind is part of the Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Expansion of the evidence base on health inequalities in nutrition is needed to better plan, design and implement public health nutrition policies, plans, and programmes. Identifying and acting on inequalities and their drivers contributes to achieving the six Global Targets 2025 to improve maternal, infant and young child nutrition, as endorsed by the Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly.

This document has been designed to disseminate concise information to public health nutrition officers who are not experts in social and health inequalities. The non-exhaustive examples are contextual and therefore are not to be considered for global guidance. Current and updated World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines are available online and they are referenced in this document for reducing stunting in children and in the other documents of this series for the rest of the targets.