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The Child Nutrition Fund

Afghanistan. A child receives RUTF from a UNICEF-supported mobile health and nutrition team in Nari District, Afghanistan.
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About

The Child Nutrition Fund is a new financing mechanism designed to accelerate the scale-up of sustainable policies, programmes and supplies to end child wasting.

The CNF is designed to support government-led efforts in a selected number of countries that carry some of the highest numbers and/or proportion of children under 5 years of age with wasting.

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Author(s)
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; CIFF; UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development office; and UNICEF

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Nutrition
Infant and young child nutrition
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