This sixth progress report marks a critical juncture between two European Union (EU) programming cycles: 2014-2020 and 2021-2027. The report provides an update on achievements with respect to the two ambitious commitments on nutrition: to support partner countries to reduce the number of stunted children under the age of five by at least 7 million by 2025; and to allocate EUR 3.5 billion to nutrition between 2014 and 2020. The annual resource tracking exercise presented here confirms that by 2020, the EU's EUR 3.5 billion global pledge for nutrition had been achieved and even surpassed by EUR 800 million. In 2019 alone, the latest year for which officially reported data are available, the 41 EU nutrition-related financing decisions approved had nutrition-relevant components amounting to EUR 623.3 million, including the highest overall share of budget support achieved to date. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to devastate lives around the world, the global backdrop to this report would have been unimaginable in 2014. With respect to stunting reduction, trends and estimates from data available prior to the onset of COVID-19 indicate that compared to 2014, the number of children who would have been averted from stunting by 2025 had risen fourfold in the 40 countries prioritising nutrition: from 1 million to 4.2 million. The proportion of children suffering from stunting had fallen by an average of 6.2 percentage points. Additional progress had also been made in the majority of these countries in terms of child wasting, low birth weight and exclusive breastfeeding. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting impacts on people's lives, significant ground may have been lost. Even before this crisis and despite the important EU contribution, the world remained off track to meet the internationally agreed World Health Assembly (WHA) target for stunting reduction. COVID-19 shines a spotlight on the strong causal connection between the widespread reductions in household income arising from pandemic-related disruptions and the fact that modest gains made in reducing global maternal and child undernutrition now stand to be reversed. The crisis has also highlighted the existence of shared commonalities and converging effects across biodiversity loss, climate change and human health and nutrition. It has underscored the critical role of nutrition in strengthening people's immune systems, with poor diets and associated co-morbidities dramatically increasing the risk of severe complications and death as a result of the virus. A detailed regional perspective is provided in this report to assess the delivery of country-level results against the three strategic priorities for nutrition outlined in the Nutrition Communication and Action Plan. The analysis reinforces the EU's conviction that what works best for improved nutrition is a locally adapted, sustained, multi-sectoral and rights-based approach with a strong focus on tackling entrenched inequalities such as those relating to wealth and gender. This approach will continue to remain at the heart of the EU's efforts to address malnutrition in all its forms. The year 2021 has been heralded as the International Year of Nutrition, hosting both the United Nations Food Systems Summit and the Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit. The EU welcomes these global initiatives as crucial steps forward for global recovery efforts, supporting the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals. Correspondingly, the EU's engagement at all levels remains driven by a commitment to ensure access for all to sufficient, safe and affordable food and healthy diets within our planetary boundaries, in line with the Green Deal and the Farm to Fork Strategy, while simultaneously addressing the broader drivers of malnutrition in all its forms - whether poverty, inequality, climate change, biodiversity loss, forced migration or conflict.