Working with experienced implementing partners and governments to support national nutrition programmes that deliver at scale
InvestmentsThe Power of Nutrition invests in the scale up of high impact and proven nutrition interventions in partnership with national governments and experienced implementing partners, in a collective effort to improve nutrition outcomes for women, mothers, babies and young children and significantly reduce stunting.
We fund large scale nutrition programmes in countries with the highest burdens of stunting, where stunting rates are 30 percent or higher or at least 250,000 children under five are affected by stunting and prevented from reaching their full potential.
We currently have live investments in 12 countries, with further programmes under design. Each programmes is carefully designed to deliver impact at scale and is based around a core set of evidence-based interventions that have been proven to improve child and maternal nutrition outcomes in countries with the highest rates of undernutrition.
Click on the map below to learn more about our current investments and the impact our funding is having.
To achieve its long-term objectives, it is important to continue build on our existing portfolio and make new investments that support new nutrition programmes where they are needed most. The Power of Nutrition therefore has an ambitious pipeline of future investment programmes in countries with the highest burden of undernutrition and stunting.
We are currently working with partners towards entering new countries such as India – where the national stunting rate is 38.4 percent, representing nearly 47 million children, and Indonesia, where the national stunting rate is 37.2 percent, representing 9 million children.
The Power of Nutrition has a list of eligible countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, with a stunting prevalence equal to or more than 30% or at least 250,000 children stunted. To see a full list, please click here.
To date, results available from 10 programmes* in The Power of Nutrition’s portfolio show that our co-investments have enabled over 60 million people (including approximately 40.3 million children under age 5, 1.2 million adolescents, and more than 18.5 million women of reproductive age and adolescent girls) to access vital health and nutrition interventions.
As of December 2020, The Power of Nutrition has approved investments in 15 programmes across 12 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, representing a total co-investment portfolio worth $478 million.
To assess the impact we are having and to ensure that we are constantly improving how we work, we operate the highest standards of monitoring, evaluation and learning – to learn more please click here.
The Power of Nutrition works with partners with extensive experience in supporting governments to scale up nutrition interventions.
