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Annual Report 2024-2025 /

Nutrition governance

Ending missed opportunities for better nutrition outcomes

From public finance and data systems to policy design and multisector coordination, Nutrition International’s governance work equips national and local governments, multilateral development banks and regional government bodies to plan, fund and sustain the right nutrition programs, at the right time, for those who need them most.  

Nutrition governance

Strengthening systems to end missed opportunities for better nutrition outcomes.

Through our global and in-country experts in governance, finance, data and MEAL (monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning), Nutrition International provides strategic, coordinated technical assistance and tailored capacity development. 

Our support includes helping to design prioritized and costed nutrition plans alongside practical tools and systems to finance, implement and monitor them, ensuring programs remain evidence-based and focused where they can deliver the greatest impact.

Across Southeast Asia, we worked at both the national and subnational levels to translate intent into implementation. In the Philippines, our collaboration with the National Nutrition Council led to the development of optimized Local Nutrition Action Plans that strengthen local capacity to plan, advocate and mobilize resources for nutrition. In parallel, through the Bridging the Fortification Gap in the Philippines project, funded by Quantedge Advancement Initiative, we supported enhancements to the legislative and regulatory frameworks for wheat flour fortification and universal salt iodization.

In Malawi, we launched two complementary efforts to strengthen delivery systems. In partnership with the Ministry of Health’s Department of Nutrition, we assessed the National Nutrition Information System and provided strategic recommendations to improve data quality, use and interoperability, including a digital maturity assessment to identify opportunities for technology integration. Similarly, in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs’ Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Division, we initiated a nationwide mapping and capacity assessment of Savings and Loans Groups to identify entry points for nutrition integration.

Our financing-related technical assistance spans advocacy, health economics, fiscal policy, analytics and modelling, investment cases and resource mobilization, shaping both the demand for and supply of nutrition financing. In 2024, we continued to support the Asian Development Bank by providing guidance to integrate nutrition into large-scale operations, strengthening nutrition tracking across its investment portfolio and publishing joint briefs on embedding nutrition into social protection and safety net programs. In the fifth year of the Banking on Nutrition Partnership, funded by Big Win Philanthropy, support to the African Development Bank continued to strengthen its capacity to integrate nutrition into projects and embed it across sectoral program approaches and multi-year country strategies.

Nutrition International also continued to help shape the global nutrition financing ecosystem, with a significant role in the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Paris 2025 Summit. Building on our extensive experience from N4G Tokyo 2021, Nutrition International worked very closely with France’s Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, providing strategic advice, facilitating stakeholder partnership meetings, drafting key documents and engaging our country offices to support governments in formulating and registering commitments.

Nutrition governance

Scaling nutrition-smart investments across Asia.

By integrating nutrition into agriculture, education, social protection, climate and health projects, the partnership with help millions of children and families achieve better diets, stronger health systems and improved long-term outcomes.

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Nutrition governance

Scaling nutrition-smart investments across Asia.

Through research, advocacy and capacity building, the collaboration ensures that nutrition is prioritized in national strategies and large-scale development programs, addressing malnutrition where it matters most.

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Nutrition governance

Scaling nutrition-smart investments across Asia.

With traditional global aid for basic nutrition under pressure, this alliance offers a timely opportunity to scale up nutrition-smart investments and safeguard hard-won gains.

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Looking ahead

Strengthening governance for lasting nutrition impact.

Aligned with our strategy of providing long-term support to governments and other partners, Nutrition International’s nutrition governance work will build on previous phases of technical assistance, moving from policy and planning in some contexts, and from planning to financing and implementation in others. In Cambodia, we are now supporting the uptake and implementation of a priority of the National Strategy for Food Security and Nutrition, which we helped to develop, with an emphasis on further integrating nutrition into social safety net programs. In Nigeria, we will support the Nutrition Parliamentarian Network to finalize and roll out a legislative framework for resource mobilization, building on earlier efforts to establish and strengthen the Network’s capacity. At the regional and global level, Nutrition International will continue to support multilateral development banks to further integrate nutrition into large-scale operations, while investing in more cross-learning and harmonizing approaches, such as through improved systems for tracking investments.