The Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit will be held December 7-8, 2021 under the auspices of the government of Japan.
The Summit is a unique opportunity to accelerate financial commitments to undernutrition and foster political and regulatory environments that will advance nutrition goals. Now more than ever, it is vital that local and global donors do not lose sight of the necessity to invest in nutrition as the pathway to sustainable growth and to delivering the SDGs. With concerted, bold actions and commitments from all sectors, we can make 2021 the year where progress on nutrition is not reversed but accelerated – and build a future where good nutrition is embraced as a global priority for investment.
The first Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit, hosted by the UK Government in 2013, improved awareness for the urgency of good nutrition. It led to the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016 to 2025), where world leaders committing to end “all forms of malnutrition” by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and gave birth to organisations such as The Power of Nutrition. It also successfully mobilised £17 billion – including £1.25 billion in new investments[1] from the UK Government – to combat malnutrition globally.
The Summit will be a high-level event structured to announce renewed, new and diverse policy and financial commitments to support progress towards global nutrition goals and targets, and to provide a roadmap forward to 2030 for the global community.[2] The Government of Japan is inviting all stakeholders and constituency groups, including donor governments, recipient governments, multilateral, international, philanthropic organisations, civil society and importantly, the private sector to make a pledge to improve nutrition. A pledge can be made at any point through to the Summit. A Commitment-Making Guide has been made available to support these efforts.
More specifically, partners will convene at the N4G Summit to change the world’s current nutrition trajectory by:
These actions will ensure individuals and families have the nutrition they need to live healthy and productive lives and that countries have the human capital they need to fuel health, social, and economic development in the final decade of the SDGs.
The Power of Nutrition makes nutrition funds go further than any organisation could achieve alone. Partnering with us this Nutrition for Growth Year of Action provides access to:
Six years years since the birth of The Power of Nutrition, we have mobilised over US $523 million for programmes in 13 countries using our model. In 10 of those investments, in Liberia, Tanzania, Madagascar, Benin, Ethiopia, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Rwanda, Gujarat and Maharashtra over 60 million children, adolescent girls and women of childbearing age have gained access to vital nutrition services, taking us a step forward towards the elimination of stunting.
Yet, there is still much work to do.
With these high levels of stunting amongst children, we can expect the number of stunted adults to continue to grow. This will inevitably have a huge impact on nutrition related health costs on countries, as well as the productivity and prosperity of their workforce, the private sector and businesses which employ them, and ultimately on their economies.
We believe that if global donors, alongside high-burden country governments, the private sector and civil society, do not refocus on the task at hand to end malnutrition in all its forms by 2030, and renew their pledges for 2021 and beyond, progress made so far is likely to be stalled, putting millions of lives at risk and threatening economic progress.
Therefore, we see enormous opportunity in bringing our pioneering model to the N4G Summit and ensuring pledges go further with a specific focus on mobilising domestic resource and engaging private sector investment at scale.
