Our track record
Our approach works, and the progress we’ve seen inspires us to push even further in the fight on malnutrition.
Through evidence generation, we helped reform the global guidelines for how children with severe malnutrition are treated, opening a path to reach more children with lifesaving care. And through relentless advocacy, we helped secure historic funding that resulted in massive, rapid scale-up of malnutrition treatment, which UNICEF and the New York Times estimate saved 1.2 million children's lives in 2023 alone.
"I don’t have a long background in this area. And it was when I first heard from [ECF CEO] Will [Moore] in a meeting not long after I got into the job, where he described the power of this simple pack of food and how inexpensive it was, and how many lives you can save... and I’m like, hey, why aren’t we doing more of that?... So that’s just an example of just one person telling a story both of need, and of remedy, that impacted just one individual, that now has these ripple effects."
— Samantha Power
USAID Administrator, July 2022
William Moore (ECF CEO) with Samantha Power, USAID Administrator, July 2022
The impact of effective advocacy
Through strategic advocacy, we’ve partnered with donors, philanthropies, and NGOs to prioritize funding for malnutrition. Countless lives have been saved as a result.
U.S. Government Commitments on Malnutrition
In 2024, USAID committed $200 million for RUTF, the second time in two years that the agency took a historic step in the fight against malnutrition. The first round of historic funding – in 2022 – resulted in massive scale-up of RUTF that saved 1.2 million children's lives.
Groundbreaking Roadmap for Prenatal Multivitamins
With partner philanthropies, we released a groundbreaking investment roadmap to reach millions more pregnant women worldwide with MMS.
Transforming research into policy action
We’ve funded breakthrough research on malnutrition treatment protocols that have the potential to save and improve lives in an exponential way.
New WHO Guidelines
We pioneered cost-effective malnutrition treatments that are now standard in new WHO guidelines
WHO Essential Medicines List
The WHO added RUTF to its Essential Medicines List. We supported the application for RUTF to be included on the EML.
Innovative Partnerships
We’re partnering with Gavi to explore pairing nutritional supplements and vaccine delivery to save more lives.
Scaling Partner Countries
We’ve partnered with the governments of Nepal, Senegal, and Ghana to support their leadership to fight malnutrition. These countries are committed to scaling high-impact, cost-effective malnutrition solutions.
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