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One Girl Two Lives - The Impact of Stunting

Around the world, over 144 million children under the age of five suffer from stunting. This is a chronic condition that can occur if a child does not have access to the right nutrition – in particular during the crucial first 1,000 days of their life. Stunting not only affects a child’s health, making them more susceptible to disease and infection, but also impairs their mental and physical development – meaning children who suffer from stunting are less likely to achieve their full height and cognitive potentials as adults. At The Power of Nutrition we want to help end the cycle of undernutrition and drastically reduce stunting, with a specific focus on improving mother and child nutrition. To achieve this, we build partnerships that enable us to co-finance national programmes that are designed to tackle undernutrition in the critical first 1,000 days of life and into early childhood. This approach is built around a unique financing structure that enables the Power of Nutrition to multiply any new funding it raises by at least four times – maximising the total investment in these nutrition programmes. This investment is supported by a rigorous approach to due diligence, monitoring, evaluation and learning – helping to ensure that each programme has the biggest possible impact and that best practice is shared across our whole investment portfolio.