What is the Nutrition Futures Initiative?
This initiative is a community of public officials, development sector professionals, private-sector entrepreneurs, and social innovators who are committed to improving the nutrition impacts of social protection systems. The aim of the platform is to advance innovative solutions that enhance the effectiveness, sustainability, and returns on investment for nutrition services in social protection programmes in the Global South.
The initiative seeks to bring diverse stakeholders together to critically examine the most pressing barriers to nutrition impacts in social protection systems and to co-create innovative solutions that are context-adapted and scalable.
The Problem We're Trying to Solve
- Barriers to innovation constrain the nutrition impacts of social protection systems.
- There are no purpose-built platforms to support collaboration and innovation for nutrition in social protection systems.
- South-South and North-South cooperation and knowledge exchange can break down barriers, but there aren't dedicated, publicly-accessible platforms for supporting such collaborations.
- Actors making critical design decisions don't have practical options for getting meaningful, constructive insight from local communities and households.
- Systems aren't advancing fast enough to safeguard nutrition-secure futures for all.
Our Vision
We envision a future where social protection systems effectively and sustainably safeguard nutrition-secure futures for the world's most vulnerable people.
Our Mission
Support governments and other system actors to improve the nutrition impacts of social protection systems by fostering co-innovation and South-South knowledge exchange.
Our Values
01 CREATIVITY
We encourage out-of-the-box thinking, and urge ourselves and our stakeholders to think boldly. We do not shy away from uncharted territory and firmly embrace the unknown.
02 COLLABORATION
We embrace co-innovation, and create spaces where people can work together and leverage their diverse and complementary skills.
03 INCLUSION
We value all viewpoints, including and especially those that go against the norm. We see all stakeholders as equal partners and make a conscious effort to give voice to those who are usually kept silent.
04 EMPATHY
We maintain a rigorous commitment to human-centered design, and take care to ensure that all our work is guided by the insights of community members and the ultimate end-users of social protection benefits and services.