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The 2030 Sprints are the widest and most ambitious collective effort ever to turn the tide on hunger and extreme poverty, focusing on scaling up interventions with a proven track record of uplifting the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. The Sprints focus on six policy areas, encompassing commitments from 41 national governments, 13 public international organizations and financial institutions, and 19 major philanthropic organizations, civil society organizations, NGOs and other non-profits.
Master press release
The consolidated Master Press Release presents the collective announcements made across the 2030 Sprints and highlights the coordinated global effort to accelerate progress against hunger and poverty. The initiative brings together policies with strong evidence of large‑scale impact, including income transfers, school feeding, socioeconomic inclusion, early childhood development, family farming, and water access.
Cash Transfers
The Cash Transfer Sprint aims to reach 500 million people in low‑ and lower‑middle‑income countries with cash transfer and social protection programmes by 2030. Cash transfers provide direct income support to poor and vulnerable households, helping reduce extreme poverty, improve food security, and increase resilience to economic and climate shocks. Cash transfer programmes are a proven policy instrument with strong evidence of large‑scale impact when implemented through national systems.
School Meals
The School Meals Sprint focuses on expanding access to daily, nutritious school meals for 150 million children by 2030. By integrating school meals into national education and social protection systems, governments reduce child hunger and malnutrition, improve learning outcomes and school attendance, especially for girls, support local food systems transformation and foster long‑term human capital development.
Socio-economic Inclusion
Early Childhood and Maternal Support
This Sprint aims to reach more than 200 million women and children aged 0-6 by 2030 through government-led programmes that combine health, nutrition, early childhood development and social support. It focuses on coordinated, early‑life interventions that prevent malnutrition and developmental delays during pregnancy and the first years of life, when risks are highest and impacts are greatest.
Smallholder and Family Farming
Alliance members committed to scale up investment in sustainable agriculture and agrifood systems to support small‑scale producers and family farmers, who produce up to 70% of the food consumed in low‑ and middle‑income countries. This Sprint aims to support national interventions that improve productivity, incomes, and resilience, while addressing persistent gaps in access to finance, technology, and markets.
Water Access
The Water Access Sprint supports the expansion of low‑cost water solutions, such as cisterns, wells and rainwater harvesting, to improve access to water for household consumption and food production in vulnerable communities. With a focus on increasing reliable water supply in drought‑prone and semi‑arid areas of Latin America and Africa, related programmes help to reduce food insecurity and strengthen resilience to climate shocks.
THE 2030
sprints
Cash Transfers
The Cash Transfer Sprint aims to reach 500 million people in low‑ and lower‑middle‑income countries with cash transfer and social protection programmes by 2030. Cash transfers provide direct income support to poor and vulnerable households, helping reduce extreme poverty, improve food security, and increase resilience to economic and climate shocks. Cash transfer programmes are a proven policy instrument with strong evidence of large‑scale impact when implemented through national systems.
School Meals
The School Meals Sprint focuses on expanding access to daily, nutritious school meals for 150 million children by 2030. By integrating school meals into national education and social protection systems, governments reduce child hunger and malnutrition, improve learning outcomes and school attendance, especially for girls, support local food systems transformation and foster long‑term human capital development.
Socio-economic Inclusion
Early Childhood and Maternal Support
This Sprint aims to reach more than 200 million women and children aged 0-6 by 2030 through government-led programmes that combine health, nutrition, early childhood development and social support. It focuses on coordinated, early‑life interventions that prevent malnutrition and developmental delays during pregnancy and the first years of life, when risks are highest and impacts are greatest.
Smallholder and Family Farming
Alliance members committed to scale up investment in sustainable agriculture and agrifood systems to support small‑scale producers and family farmers, who produce up to 70% of the food consumed in low‑ and middle‑income countries. This Sprint aims to support national interventions that improve productivity, incomes, and resilience, while addressing persistent gaps in access to finance, technology, and markets.
Water Access
The Water Access Sprint supports the expansion of low‑cost water solutions, such as cisterns, wells and rainwater harvesting, to improve access to water for household consumption and food production in vulnerable communities. With a focus on increasing reliable water supply in drought‑prone and semi‑arid areas of Latin America and Africa, related programmes help to reduce food insecurity and strengthen resilience to climate shocks.
Cash Transfers
The Cash Transfer Sprint aims to reach 500 million people in low‑ and lower‑middle‑income countries with cash transfer and social protection programmes by 2030. Cash transfers provide direct income support to poor and vulnerable households, helping reduce extreme poverty, improve food security, and increase resilience to economic and climate shocks. Cash transfer programmes are a proven policy instrument with strong evidence of large‑scale impact when implemented through national systems.
School Meals
The School Meals Sprint focuses on expanding access to daily, nutritious school meals for 150 million children by 2030. By integrating school meals into national education and social protection systems, governments reduce child hunger and malnutrition, improve learning outcomes and school attendance, especially for girls, support local food systems transformation and foster long‑term human capital development.
Socio-economic Inclusion
The Socioeconomic Inclusion Sprint aims to help 100 million people, especially women, exit poverty by 2030. Programmes under this Sprint combine coaching, microcredit, asset transfer and income-generating support to foster economic growth, resilience and prosperity. This Sprint builds on a growing body of evidence from economic inclusion models implemented at national scale.
Early Childhood and Maternal Support
This Sprint aims to reach more than 200 million women and children aged 0-6 by 2030 through government-led programmes that combine health, nutrition, early childhood development and social support. It focuses on coordinated, early‑life interventions that prevent malnutrition and developmental delays during pregnancy and the first years of life, when risks are highest and impacts are greatest.
Smallholder and Family Farming
Alliance members committed to scale up investment in sustainable agriculture and agrifood systems to support small‑scale producers and family farmers, who produce up to 70% of the food consumed in low‑ and middle‑income countries. This Sprint aims to support national interventions that improve productivity, incomes, and resilience, while addressing persistent gaps in access to finance, technology, and markets.
Water Access
The Water Access Sprint supports the expansion of low‑cost water solutions, such as cisterns, wells and rainwater harvesting, to improve access to water for household consumption and food production in vulnerable communities. With a focus on increasing reliable water supply in drought‑prone and semi‑arid areas of Latin America and Africa, related programmes help to reduce food insecurity and strengthen resilience to climate shocks.
Cash Transfers
The Cash Transfer Sprint aims to reach 500 million people in low‑ and lower‑middle‑income countries with cash transfer and social protection programmes by 2030. Cash transfers provide direct income support to poor and vulnerable households, helping reduce extreme poverty, improve food security, and increase resilience to economic and climate shocks. Cash transfer programmes are a proven policy instrument with strong evidence of large‑scale impact when implemented through national systems.
School Meals
The School Meals Sprint focuses on expanding access to daily, nutritious school meals for 150 million children by 2030. By integrating school meals into national education and social protection systems, governments reduce child hunger and malnutrition, improve learning outcomes and school attendance, especially for girls, support local food systems transformation and foster long‑term human capital development.
Socio-economic Inclusion
The Socioeconomic Inclusion Sprint aims to help 100 million people, especially women, exit poverty by 2030. Programmes under this Sprint combine coaching, microcredit, asset transfer and income-generating support to foster economic growth, resilience and prosperity. This Sprint builds on a growing body of evidence from economic inclusion models implemented at national scale.
Early Childhood and Maternal Support
This Sprint aims to reach more than 200 million women and children aged 0-6 by 2030 through government-led programmes that combine health, nutrition, early childhood development and social support. It focuses on coordinated, early‑life interventions that prevent malnutrition and developmental delays during pregnancy and the first years of life, when risks are highest and impacts are greatest.
Smallholder and Family Farming
Alliance members committed to scale up investment in sustainable agriculture and agrifood systems to support small‑scale producers and family farmers, who produce up to 70% of the food consumed in low‑ and middle‑income countries. This Sprint aims to support national interventions that improve productivity, incomes, and resilience, while addressing persistent gaps in access to finance, technology, and markets.
Water Access
The Water Access Sprint supports the expansion of low‑cost water solutions, such as cisterns, wells and rainwater harvesting, to improve access to water for household consumption and food production in vulnerable communities. With a focus on increasing reliable water supply in drought‑prone and semi‑arid areas of Latin America and Africa, related programmes help to reduce food insecurity and strengthen resilience to climate shocks.