GAIN Country Insights on Nutrition for Growth 2025
(N4G Summit)
GAIN presents key insights from Stakeholder Dialogues and Children’s Workshops across India, Pakistan, Uganda, Nigeria, and Kenya, showcasing progress, identifying gaps, and detailing national commitments to tackling malnutrition.
GAIN 2025 Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Commitments
From March 27 to 28, 2025, The Government of France hosted the 2025 Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit in Paris. The N4G Summit is an international conference dedicated to defeating all forms of malnutrition by bringing together governments, international organisations, philanthropies, businesses, NGOs and other key stakeholders. Its objectives are to elevate nutrition as a key priority on the global development agenda and secure concrete political and financial commitments to accelerate progress against malnutrition.
In alignment with its mission to enhance nutrition outcomes by improving the consumption of nutritious and safe food for all people, GAIN registered two new commitments under the Nutrition Accountability Framework (NAF) to ensure accountability in achieving its objectives. These commitments build upon those that GAIN initially registered at the 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit.
GAIN 2025 Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Commitments
From March 27 to 28, 2025, The Government of France hosted the 2025 Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit in Paris. The N4G Summit is an international conference dedicated to defeating all forms of malnutrition by bringing together governments, international organisations, philanthropies, businesses, NGOs and other key stakeholders. Its objectives are to elevate nutrition as a key priority on the global development agenda and secure concrete political and financial commitments to accelerate progress against malnutrition. In alignment with its mission to enhance nutrition outcomes by improving the consumption of nutritious and safe food for all people, GAIN registered two new commitments under the Nutrition Accountability Framework (NAF) to ensure accountability in achieving its objectives. These commitments build upon those that GAIN initially registered at the 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit.
Driving Nutrition Impact through African SMEs
Fighting malnutrition in all its forms is one of the major challenges of the 21st century. While more than 820 million people suffer from undernutrition and hunger, with 150 million children under age 5 stunted (too short for their age), another 2 billion people are overweight or obese. With SMEs in Africa producing and distributing approximately 70%-80% of the nutritious foods available on the continent, they are key drivers of food supply, job creation and economic growth. How can they reach lower-income consumers and create sustainable nutrition impact?
DSG UN Amina Mohammed Calls For Accelerated Food System Transformation
UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohamed calls for bold action to accelerate food system transformation. She highlights two key priorities: 1. Helping governments craft high-impact, investible actions. 2. Leveraging aid to unlock concessional loans and mobilize private sector resources for nutrition, food security, climate, resilience, and jobs. Watch the video to hear her full message
Paris Declaration on Business & Nutrition 2030: Reshaping The Nutrition Economy
On March 26, 2025, the Access to Nutrition Initiative (ATNi), the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), and the Paris Peace Forum presented The Paris Declaration on Business & Nutrition 2030 at a high-level event ahead of the Paris Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit. This Declaration urgently calls for reshaping the nutrition economy through a multi-sectoral approach to address malnutrition in all its forms. Undernutrition (stunting, anemia, wasting), obesity, micronutrient deficiencies, and food insecurity affect health, climate, and economies, underscoring the need for coordinated action.
Amidst Aid Cuts – Urgent call for Smarter, Stronger & Swifter solutions to Curb Malnutrition
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) joins world leaders and organisations at the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit to press for smarter nutrition financing, stronger private sector engagement and swifter actions on nutrition commitments made.
369,000 children likely to die and 2.3 million at risk due to 44% cuts in global nutrition funding
Experts warn of the devastating toll of aid cuts on malnourished children and how it will impact generations to come—not just as huge human cost—but also a huge cost to development, economic growth, and future global prosperity.
Outcome Assessment for Future Food Safety and Basic Nutrition Training of Food Vendors.
The Private Service Provider (PSP) knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAPs) assessment was done to see how well PSPs who were trained by the CASCADE project and worked with the National Home-Grown School Feeding Program (NHGSFP) remembered and used what they learnt about basic nutrition, food safety, hygiene, and handling raw materials. The NHGSFP aims to provide daily nutritious meals to public primary school pupils using locally grown farm produce, thereby enhancing children's health, increasing school attendance, and supporting local farmers while contributing to the overall economic and social development of Nigeria. The program was suspended in January 2024 for nine weeks; however, since the suspension by the president, the program has yet to kick off, even with budgetary allocations in the 2024 and 2025 budgets. This suspension has hindered the effective application of the knowledge and skills gained during the training.Call for Applications
Join the First Cohort of Co-Innovation Partnerships for Nutrition-Sensitive Social Protection
Are you working to enhance the nutrition impacts of social protection systems?
Collaborate with global experts, peers, and innovators to develop innovative, implementation-ready solutions. We invite representatives of national or sub-national governments and development partners engaged in the design and implementation of social protection programs to apply for the first cohort of participants in the Co-Innovation Platform for Nutrition-Sensitive Social Protection.
About the Co-Innovation Platform
This platform facilitates structured co-innovation processes designed to generate high-impact solutions for improving the nutrition impacts of social protection programs in the Global South. Selected participants will be matched with co-innovation partners from around the world and engaged in an intensive 5-phase virtual/hybrid innovation journey over 6-8 months.
Each co-innovation process will be driven by a collaboratively developed Action Agenda, ensuring that each process yields innovations tailored to real-world challenges and contextual needs. By the end of the co-innovation process, participants will produce a high-fidelity, implementation-ready innovation solution that can be taken forward for further testing, fundraising, or implementation.
Want to learn more? Read the full Co-Innovation Platform Concept Note
Who Should Apply?
We welcome applications from:
- Representatives of national or sub-national governments in the Global South involved in the design and implementation of social protection programs.
- Development partners supporting social protection initiatives at country or regional levels.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants will be selected based on the following criteria:
- Demonstrated commitment to improving the nutrition impacts of their social protection system.
- Clear articulation of a challenge or opportunity with high impact potential that could benefit from structured co-innovation.
- Institutional capacity and willingness to engage in an intensive, collaborative innovation process over 6-8 months.
- Potential for scaling or implementing the innovative intervention within their social protection system.
Why Participate?
- Gain access to global experts and innovators.
- Engage in a structured, high-impact innovation process.
- Develop an implementation-ready solution tailored to your local context.
- Strategically position your social protection program for future funding, piloting, or scaling.
How to Apply
Interested applicants should submit their expression of interest by 23rd May 2025. To apply, please return the application form to coinnovation@gainhealth.org or apply using the online submission form
Join us in shaping the future of nutrition-sensitive social protection through co-innovation!
For more information or enquires related to this initiative, you may contact Dr. Anthony Wenndt, GAIN Social Protection Lead.
Anthony Wenndt
Technical Officer