Looking to 2025 with The Power of Nutrition CEO Jim Emerson

What are you looking forward to in 2025?

It’s a critical year for the nutrition sector. The UN Decade of Action on Nutrition ends in 2025 and it will be important to access how successful the development community has been in accelerating the commitments made at Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2). We are behind on most targets; due, in large part, to the Covid pandemic and global conflict. With five years to go to the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, it’s critical that we take stock and refocus our combined commitment to the critical nutrition interventions.

Also, this year is the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit. We were formed as an organisation out of the very first N4G summit, with the recognition that more collaboration, more funding, and more transparency was needed across the sector.

2025 also marks our 10-year anniversary and we have learned a lot over the last decade – learning that we want to share with the wider sector to continue to support collaboration and an integrated response to the nutrition crises we face. To that end we will be producing a Learning Series, with research and insight in our success and the challenges we have faced in reaching our objectives as an organisation. These insights will be released in a series of Fireside Chats, videos, webinars and reports in Q2; we look forward to sharing them.

Why is TPoN doing a Learning Series and what can we expect to see?

The Power of Nutrition was set up to facilitate the convening of partnerships and pooling of funds to co-create and deliver large-scale interventions that have sustainable impact in the fight against malnutrition.

10 years on and we have some impressive results from delivering sustainable programmes at scale with a diverse set of stakeholders – funding partners, implementers, governments, collaborative civil society organisations. We’ve had our challenges too. It was Einstein who said that ‘the source of knowledge is experience’ – we want to share what we have learnt from our experience, to give the sector the best chance to accelerate impact towards delivering the SDG’s. We also want to make recommendations and spark conversations for more effective collaboration in the future.

Some of the content will include:

• How we have leveraged concessional finance for nutrition in our partnership with the World Bank

• A cost efficiency analysis of our programmes

• Our experience in securing funds from the private sector – what they’re looking for in partnership, what works, and what’s been challenging

• We believe in a systems strengthening approach. We’ll share case studies on how we’ve secured domestic resource into our programmes and supported national governments to ensure sustainability

• Utilising data and insight – recognising the importance of integrated programming and taking a localised approach

• We’ll be celebrating our diverse partnerships and championing action for more impact in the next decade.

Watch this space for a lot more!

What role will you have at N4G?

We’re aiming to partner with other CSO’s for impact at N4G. The more civil society organisations can work together, the more we can amplify our voice and deliver change. We’re currently working on the opportunities for side-events with our partners.

We hope to meet with many of our partners there – so please get in touch if you’ll be in Paris for the Summit in March and we can arrange a meeting.