Pakistan urged to make bold nutrition pledges at N4G summit 2025
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ISLAMABAD: Nutrition for development (N4G) Summit 2025 approaches, health and nutritionists are demanding the government of Pakistan to take decisive steps to deal with malnutrition, food insecurity, and child health and child health.
The summit, held in Paris on March 27-28, provided Pakistan with an important opportunity to make a bold promise to improve nutrition results, especially in the weakest districts of the country.
According to the National Nutrition Survey 2018, Pakistan is struggling with dangerous malnutrition rates, 40 % of children under the age of five suffer from stunts and 18 % suffer from waste.
Experts emphasize that malnutrition is not just a health crisis – it is an economic burden that costs $ 17 billion annually to Pakistan annually on lost productivity and health care costs. With rising climate challenges and food insecurity, immediate policy and financial interference is essential to change the crisis.
Prof. Dr. Zulfiqar Bhatta, founding director of the Institute for Global Health and Development at AGA Khan University, emphasized the need for evidence -based promises at the World Summit. “Pakistan should give priority to nutrition as a national emergency. He said that the country needs comprehensive policies not only food protection but also maternity and children’s nutrition, education, elimination of poverty, and environmental factors affecting health results.
Experts and nutritionists are urging Pakistan to make key promises at the N4G summit, which includes recognition of nutrition as a fundamental right, increasing domestic financing for specific nutritional and nutritional interference, and improving food programs.
They also recommend scaling multilateral nutrition projects, enhancing links between Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) and maternity and child nutrition, and strictly recommending nutritional indications through the District Health Information System (DHIS).
Dr. Shabina Raza, Country Director of Nutrition International, highlighted the importance of Pakistan’s recent development and international platform in the Nutrition in Nutrition.
He said that we appreciate the strong nutritional commitment to the Pakistani government, which has been exemplified by the recently initiated Uran Pakistan. He said, Nutrition for Nutrition (N4G) 2025 Summit, with the next World Health Assembly, provides important platforms to showcase its leadership to Pakistan and to strengthen its dedication through impact policy, financial and programming measures.
The most important challenges are to improve maternity and children’s nutrition in Pakistan’s highest bird districts. Experts recommend strict monitoring of low weight rates, anemia in pregnancy, and strict monitoring of children’s growth through normal immunization programs. They also emphasize the importance of improving nutritional diversity to deal with breastfeeding rates, complementary feeding, and malnutrition. Beyond the immediate interference of health, experts are advocating for wider structural changes.
They have called for the elimination of early marriages and teenage attacks, maximum investment in clean water and cleaning, and targeting social safety nets to tackle extreme poverty and food insecurity. Nutrition scientists also emphasize the need to eliminate the growing trend of obesity and non -communication diseases by promoting better food environment and physical activity.
Climate change is further increasing food insecurity in Pakistan, which requires sensitive nutritional agriculture, climate -prevailing food production, and destruction to integrate into the country’s long -term strategy.
Experts urge the government to prefer investment in bioffire, help farmers on the usual climate risks, and integrate the objectives of nutrients into Pakistan’s wider climate policies.
The N4G summit is expected to attend the N4G summit with a high -level Pakistani delegation, observers believe that promise can open new international partnerships and financing opportunities to accelerate progress towards national and global nutrition goals.
Experts have warned that without immediate action, Pakistan faces even more nutritional crisis in the coming decades.
“The N4G Summit 2025 gives Pakistan a golden opportunity to take a decisive step, pledge sustainable investment and keep itself as a leader in global nutrition.
Since Pakistan is preparing for the World Summit, experts hope that strong political will and evidence -based promises will make meaningful progress to deal with malnutrition and nutritional insecurity, and will ensure better health results for millions of Pakistanis.
