About Results for Development and its efforts to reduce anaemia
Reducing anemia is essential to advancing health equity, as it disproportionately affects women and children in low-resource settings. Anemia has a direct and profound impact on maternal and child health, increasing the risks of preterm birth, low birth weight, postpartum hemorrhage, infection, and impaired cognitive development. Addressing anemia will have broad and significant benefits for individual health, economic productivity, equity and societal development. R4D has been working in the anemia space for years and is eager to learn from others making critical contributions to this field. We see the Alliance as an excellent opportunity to disseminate our work, collaborate with partners dedicated to anemia reduction, and collectively advance progress in this important area.How our organization is tackling anaemia?
R4D is supporting the introduction and scale-up of Multiple Micronutrient Supplements (MMS) and increasing access to MNCH medicines (i.e., iron folic acid tablets, IV iron, uterotonics, etc.) and safe blood for PPH in several Sub-Saharan African countries. R4D's MNCH market shaping work started in 2019 with an MNCH market diagnostic which identified barriers in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Kano State, Nigeria. Since then, we have developed market shaping solutions at the global, regional, and country levels and supported implementation of a subset of solutions in Ethiopia. We are now working on an updated market diagnostic, which we'll be able to share the results of in Q4 2024.
R4D provides novel and unique analysis of global financing for nutrition (including interventions to prevent and treat anemia) that have been key to track progress and accountability and advocate for increased resources. In 2017, for example, R4D worked with the World Bank and 1000 Days to create the Investment Framework for Nutrition as a roadmap to achieve the WHA targets by 2025, including anemia. Since then, R4D has been tracking donor disbursements to priority interventions needed to achieve the WHA nutrition targets – including the anemia target in particular – to monitor progress against the financing benchmarks laid out in the GIFN. R4D also contributed to the Global Investment Framework for Nutrition 2024 to assess progress to date of financing for the global nutrition targets, and plans to continue annual financial tracking for anemia and other critical nutrition targets.
R4D hosts the Finance Capacity Development Platform for SUN Countries (FCDP), which is a SUN Movement resource available to all 66 SUN Countries. The platform aims to reshape the nutrition financing landscape by inspiring and igniting government leaders to elevate nutrition financing as a priority and accelerate impact across sectors. FCDP’s vision of success is to support SUN countries in the global effort to transform nutrition financing with greater sustainability, increased funding for nutrition aligned to country priorities across all sectors and sources, and more strategic use of funding that ensures government-owned policies and programs across sectors enhance the achievement of food and nutrition targets.
What our organization can offer?
R4D works with global, regional, and country change agents to integrate nutrition in both health systems and food systems with three cross-cutting, strategic approaches: (1) evidence generation and translation, (2) sustainable nutrition financing, and (3) multisectoral policy, planning, and coordination. R4D also works with change agents to shape global and country-level markets and dramatically expand access to affordable, high-quality essential commodities and services that help people lead healthier, more productive lives. R4D can provide evidence-informed analysis and technical expertise related to nutrition-smart programming, sustainable financing, and market access for life-saving nutrition products that are critical to reduce the burden of anemia around the world.
Our specialty:
R4D supports anemia reduction through market shaping for maternal, newborn, and child nutrition and health products, informing project design to optimize nutrition gains in large-scale investments, and sustainable financing for nutrition at the global and country level. R4D also hosts the Finance Capacity Development Platform for SUN Countries (FCDP), a SUN Movement resource available to all 66 SUN countries that aims to reshape the nutrition financing landscape by inspiring and igniting government leaders to elevate nutrition financing as a priority and accelerate impact across sectors.
