REACH Annual Report 2013

REACH, Renewed Efforts Against Child Hunger and under-nutrition, is an inter-agency initiative established in 2008 by the four UN agencies Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), World Food Programme (WFP) and World Health Organization (WHO) in an effort to strengthen the fight against poverty and under-nutrition. The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) later joined REACH, extending an advisory role at the global level. While initially intended to help countries accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goal MDG 1, Target 3 (to halve the proportion of underweight children under five globally by 2015) primarily through a public health oriented approach, today, REACH embodies a more balanced, multi-sectoral approach to addressing maternal and child under-nutrition with a particular emphasis on addressing stunting.