Recognizing the importance of United States leadership in addressing the challenge of global maternal and child malnutrition.

recognizes the Scaling Up Nutrition movement as a global partnership to support country-led efforts to improve maternal and child nutrition involving governments, civil society, international organizations, donors, businesses, and researchers;

supports United States leadership to scale up nutrition and improve nutrition outcomes for pregnant and lactating women and young children, and support the Scaling Up Nutrition movement and the 1,000 Days partnership, which promotes targeted action and investment to improve nutrition for mothers and children in the 1,000 days between a woman's pregnancy and her child's second birthday; and

calls on relevant Federal agencies, including the United States Agency for International Development, Department of State, Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, Department of Agriculture, Department of the Treasury, and Millennium Challenge Corporation to consider developing a nutrition strategy to further ongoing coordination efforts to improve indicators to track nutrition funding and outcomes across United States Government global nutrition programs, especially those in health, food security, agriculture development, food aid, and water, sanitation, and hygiene.