We build partnerships so children can thrive
We raise money and create partnerships to advance the fight against malnutrition in Africa and Asia, transforming lives and communities.
Born from the Nutrition for Growth Summit with a mandate to transform nutrition financing
The Power of Nutrition was set up by the British Government, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and UBS Optimus Foundation in 2015 with a mandate to transform financing in the neglected sector of nutrition. Since then, we’ve leveraged more than half a billion dollars for the sector including bringing in vital new funds. We’ve done this through strategic partner engagement, pooling funds and leveraging resources from multilateral banks and governments.
How we create impact
Our vision is a world where every child has the right nutrition to achieve their full potential. We do this by raising money and creating partnerships to tackle malnutrition in Africa and Asia so communities can thrive.
Convening partnerships
We build partnerships that enable us to co-finance and co-design national nutrition programmes in countries with the highest need. We match sector partners together to best suit the communities we work with.
Scaling impact
We pool funds and create financial leverage so we can invest in bigger programmes that break down traditional silos in international development.
Designing sustainable solutions
We design and run programmes in partnership with local governments through to local communities, ensuring local ownership and long-term sustainability.
Learning through monitoring and evaluation
We ensure rigorous monitoring, evaluation and learning in our programmes, to ensure our programmes have the greatest impact possible and that knowledge can be shared.
Convening partnerships to deliver scale
We convene partnerships between private and public sectors, institutions and civil society to support mothers and children across Africa and Asia. By pooling funds and creating financial leverage, we’re able to invest in bigger programmes that break down traditional silos in international development. Our programmes are run in partnership with local governments through to local communities, ensuring local ownership and long-term sustainability.
We achieve greater scale through convening funds and leveraging established relationships with our reputed network of donors and implementers.
We maximise our impact through a multisectoral approach that tackles the multiple drivers of malnutrition and supports all progress towards all the Global Goals.
We ensure long-term sustainability through working hand-in-hand with local governments and communities to embed programmes into long-term plans.
Our nimble approach and flexible model allows us to work with a wide range of partners to co-design programmes that create sustainable change.
We bang the drum for the nutrition sector – raising awareness of its importance and advocating for its prioritisation.
About us
Who we are
Our team is made up of a diverse range of professionals, from nutrition experts through to specialists in private sector partnerships. Our team drives the main areas of our work - convening complex partnerships and raising funds, managing our programmes and providing technical input, monitoring progress and delivering communications and advocacy to raise awareness of our cause.
OUR TEAMS
Our Values
Our values were developed by and for our team and set the foundation of our culture and the way we work. They remain consistent for whoever we work with, whether it’s the people we work with and for in Africa and Asia, our stakeholders or each other as individuals.
Respect
Compassion and respect is central to our work – we ensure our partners, the communities we work with and our employees are valued.
Collaboration
We work in collaboration with a wide range of partners with a shared vision to bring about change.
Accountability
We hold ourselves and our partners to account, recognising the importance of the programmes we work on.
Agility
Our small and nimble team allows us to be creative and agile, seizing new opportunities to create impact.
Ambition
We seek bold solutions that create transformative impact for the communities we work alongside.
Resilience
Nutrition is a neglected sector; we act tenaciously to overcome the challenges we face.
Partner with us
We never work alone. Below are some of the partners we work with - all sharing our vision of a world where every child has the right nutrition to reach their full potential.
