To understand why fewer children were accessing wasting treatments and other essential nutrition interventions, The Power of Nutrition, UNICEF, Irish Aid and the Ministry of Health (MoH) teamed up

On meeting Fanika, you could see she was the most natural and devoted mother to her daughter Chandni.

The Power of Nutrition is pleased to announce the launch of a new programme in Pakistan, supporting women and children’s health through an integrated approach of nutrition and immunisation.

We met Afsana, her husband and her four children. From the first interaction with Afsana and her family, we could see how close their bond is.

This week, we join our partners in celebrating and promoting World Breastfeeding Week. This annual campaign highlights the incredible benefits of breastfeeding for both mothers and babies.

Over the past 25 years there has been major progress in the treatment of severe acute malnutrition. This has been largely down to two interventions: Ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) and community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM).

CEO of The Power of Nutrition responds to new UK Government election and ministerial appointments

In June 2024 myself and my colleague Hannah got the opportunity to visit two of our programmes in India.

In neonatal care, one practice stands out for its simplicity, effectiveness, and profound impact on both mother and baby

The Power of Nutrition is proud to announce we won the Society for International Development (SID-US) 2024 Innovation Competition.

The Power of Nutrition extends partnership with SIDA in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Mary went hungry each night so she could feed her daughter, but all that has changed now with the help of our programme. Read about how cash transfers have transformed her and her daughters lives.

The 24th-30th April marks World Immunisation Week. To coincide with this, we are drawing attention to why it is so important to combine immunisation and nutrition when creating robust and sustainable programmes.

Get more insight through stories from our programme participants, our latest announcements and blogs from our team.

We work tirelessly to improve nutrition for the most underserved communities across Africa and Asia. If you're interested in joining our team, please see below for any vacancies.

We raise money and create partnerships to advance the fight against malnutrition in Africa and Asia, transforming lives and communities.

Global conflict, the impact of climate change and lingering affects of the Covid pandemic are sending shockwaves through the global food system.

We work with local communities, experienced implementing partners and governments to support national nutrition programmes that deliver at scale.

Our programmes and partnerships support mothers and children across Africa and Asia so communities can thrive.

Malnutrition is the leading cause of child deaths worldwide. Each year, it claims more lives than violence, natural disasters and diseases.

Our innovative partnership model leverages scarce resources for nutrition to deliver multi-million-dollar programmes that reach as many children, women and adolescent girls as possible.

There are many aspects that can affect people’s ability to access better nutrition – clean water and sanitation may not be immediately obvious to some, but it is incredibly vital.

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The development sector has historically been dominated by international actors implementing programmes designed far from the country of focus with little understanding of local needs, and with personnel being brought in from abroad to lead implementation.

Through our programme in Benin, Micheline was supported in adopting exclusive breastfeeding to help her baby gain weight.

RUTF stands for Ready-to-use Therapeutic Food – it’s an energy dense paste, made using peanuts, sugar, milk powder, oil, vitamins, and minerals and is used to treat children suffering from severe cases of malnutrition.

As the world gears up to celebrate the sixth International Day of Education on 24 January 2024, we’re reflecting on the theme, "Learning for Lasting Peace." This year, the emphasis is on integrating nutrition and education interventions to enhance learning, paving the way for lasting peace and sustainable development.

As we approach the end of this multisectoral nutrition and child development programme, it was great to see what they have achieved, learn more about the current priorities, and discuss sustainability and their plans for the future.

The Power of Nutrition is pleased to announce a new partnership with Cargill which aims to improve child nutrition in Uttar Pradesh.

The clock is ticking. The world stands at a critical juncture in the fight against climate change. The food we eat not only contributes to climate change, but if urgent action is not taken

The purpose of the visit was to observe the programme training and get a hands-on experience of how the data is being collected in community sites.

Read Vumilia's story of how she has been able to provide nutritious food for her children after the support she received from our programme meant she was able to grow her own kitchen garden.

Jim Emerson reflects on his first 100 days as CEO of The Power of Nutrition

Programme visits are one of the highlights of our work – getting to see the work in action, meeting the community members first hand and working closely with all programme partners to continue to learn more and improve our projects.

Good nutrition is a critical area of international development, we will not achieve the Global Goals without it, yet it is often overlooked and chronically underfunded.

The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has announced it is hosting a global food security summit this November.

As the world gathers for the annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) this month, the midway point towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) casts a sobering shadow over our collective aspirations.

Our programme in Indonesia encourages fathers to take a more active role in child care, to help combat discriminatory norms and improve the whole families nutrition outcomes

The Power of Nutrition today announces a new partnership with the humanitarian aid organisation International Medical Corps as it steps up its humanitarian response to the global malnutrition crisis.

The Power of Nutrition announces the appointment of Jim Emerson as its new Interim Chief Executive Officer.

World Immunisation Week is being celebrated worldwide this week to raise awareness about the importance of vaccination in protecting against diseases.

We all know, however, that having the right does not necessarily grant access. In the case of nutrition, gender inequality and biology combine, leading to malnutrition affecting women disproportionately. You could say even, malnutrition is sexist.

The Power of Nutrition today announced a new partnership with World Vision and Kirk Humanitarian to deliver a $2.8 million programme addressing malnutrition in Zambia.

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Unilever’s germ-protecting soap brand Lifebuoy and The Power of Nutrition, a global charitable foundation advancing the fight against malnutrition, have launched an innovative multisectoral partnership to protect young children from illnesses, malnutrition and premature death in Indonesia.

The Power of Nutrition was founded with a single-minded goal – to bring more money into nutrition to help end stunting – the devastating effect severe malnutrition has on children, leaving them too short for their age and derailing their mental development.

This week sees climate change at the forefront of both the news and political agendas, with leaders from across the world coming together to find solutions at #COP27

Simon Bishop reflects on the UN General Assembly in New York

The Power of Nutrition announces today the appointment of Mark Cutifani as its new Chair of the Board of Trustees.

The UN Secretary General has warned of “multiple famines in 2022”, and that “this year’s food access issues could become next year’s global food shortage…no country will be immune”.  The world’s fragile food system

The war in Ukraine has shone a damming light on the fragility of the global food system. For far too long, too much of our world has relied too heavily on Russia and Ukraine, which together have accounted nearly a third of global wheat exports. 

New research from The Power of Nutrition and Modern Scientist Global reveals businesses in low and middle-income countries lose more than a quarter of a trillion dollars (up to $264.6 billion) in revenue every year, due to their employees experiencing chronic undernutrition in childhood.

The Power of Nutrition will match public donations made to this year’s Soccer Aid for UNICEF, meaning every donation is doubled, up to £4 million

In 2021, the Russian Federation or Ukraine (or both) ranked in the top 3 global exporters of wheat, maize, rapeseed, sunflower seed and sunflower oil, while the Russian Federation was the top exporter of nitrogen fertilisers.

The Power of Nutrition has just published our new strategy for 2022-25. It is a bold, ambitious response to this bleak context while being rooted in our proven track-record 

We welcome the British government’s announcement today that they will commit £1.5 billion to tackling malnutrition from 2022-2030

The Power of Nutrition is launching a new programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), partnering with the Embassy of Sweden in Kinshasa, and expert implementing partners

The 2021 Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit was a milestone platform for achieving global attention and commitments for improving and investing in nutrition.

Childhood wasting is one of the most ignored nutrition challenges globally – both in terms of financing and political urgency

Tackling malnutrition requires a diverse funding base that pools resources and expertise for more sustainable, high impact programmes.

The Power of Nutrition convenes governments, the private sector, philanthropists and civil society to drive forward action against malnutrition. Our programmes leverage resources and create sustainable solutions so communities can thrive.

The Power of Nutrition today announced a partnership with the Eleanor Crook Foundation, The END Fund, and Rotary International

A recurring topic amongst philanthropies is multi-stakeholder collaboration. Aid cuts and pandemic-related disruption have renewed conversations around the role of partnerships.

Rwanda aims to become a middle-income country by 2035, thereby alleviating poverty for millions. Building up the nation’s economy is a priority for the government and its development partners

The Power of Nutrition and PVH Corp. [NYSE: PVH] today announced a new partnership that will help tackle undernutrition in the ready-made garment (RMG) industry

This week the G7 published its Famine Prevention and Humanitarian Crises Compact.

Using a novel form of immersive formative research, living with families to assess their behaviours and attitudes to nutrition

COVID-19 has highlighted global interdependencies like no other crisis ever has before. As world leaders grapple with the delicate balance of managing the spread of the virus while simultaneously helping to breathe life into deeply troubled economies

Unilever-Lifebuoy (Unilever’s hygiene soap brand) and The Power of Nutrition today announced a new innovative partnership using mobile technology to promote handwashing with soap as part of a nutrition programme among mothers.

This programme takes an innovative approach to addressing malnutrition; through mobile technology, it improves nutrition and hygiene for mothers and children in Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh.

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Jim leads on driving forward The Power of Nutrition's overall strategy and in fulfilling its vision of a world where every child has the right nutrition to fulfil their full potential.

The Power of Nutrition and the World Bank – An innovative partnership delivering more money for nutrition, and more nutrition for the money

This $12million co-investment brings together a range of partners to tackle stunting and improve childhood development outcomes in Malawi.

Shelley leads the Partnerships team to develop innovative funding strategies to deliver the greatest results for those we support and work with in Africa and Asia.

Food and nutrition security in Ethiopia is being devastated by the effects of climate change, internal conflict and displacement. This multisectoral programme brings together eight partners to preventively tackle this and create impact at scale.

Alok joined the team as Director of Programmes and Investments in January 2021. Alok oversees the management, design and implementation of all of our programmes.

Chris is responsible for the organisation’s finances. Chris has brought a wealth of finance and operational experience from over 25 years in commercial organisations, compromising of private equity, compliance software and healthcare.

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This programme supported the Government of Côte d’Ivoire to tackle malnutrition through multisectoral interventions through community platforms.

Carla leads all HR and Operations activities and is responsible for the provision of a comprehensive and professional Human resources service.

This programme works with a wide range of partners – from apparel company PVH Corp. through to UNICEF and the Government of Bangladesh, all with the goal to improve mothers and children’s nutrition in Bangladesh. It works at the community level to improve services, as well as advocating for better working conditions for pregnant and breastfeeding women in the ready-made garment industry.

Lucia provides important support for the whole team in the general running of the office and in our day-to-day work.

A unique multisectoral programme that works hand-in-hand with the local state government to reach millions of health workers, caregivers and communities to improve the health, nutrition and wellbeing of families.

Private and public sector partners are pooling resources through The Power of Nutrition to integrate efforts to tackle malnutrition in Indonesia. This programme takes a holistic approach to improve nutrition, WASH and health for mothers, children and adolescents.

Charlotte helps design and manage the implementation of our programmes, as well as co-leading on cross-organisational priorities such as Nutrition for Growth.

Extending a successful partnership with the World Bank in Rwanda

Basia is responsible for managing and reporting our programmes in Burkina Faso, Zambia, Malawi and Lesotho

This partnership supports the government led initiative in Lesotho to improve the quality and assurance of Lesotho’s health systems. It also prioritises self-sustaining nutrition interventions within communities and health facilities.

Suleiman is responsible for the collection and processing of data across our portfolio to understand and assess our programmes and to influence future programme design.

This innovative multisectoral programme seeks to protect young children from illness, malnutrition and premature deaths in Indonesia

Russell oversees our programmes in Côte d’Ivoire, Benin and both of or programmes in DRC

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Imteaz provides technical input on data management, monitoring, and evaluation for the team. He is also responsible for managing our Bangladesh programme.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been gripped by multiple devastating humanitarian crises over many years. This has led to many children and women having little to no access to nutritious foods.

This programme is the first as a result of our public appeal, which responds to the global malnutrition crisis.

Pradakshana is part of the programmes and investment team to manages our Unilever partnership in India.

DRC is facing one of the world’s largest hunger crises, exacerbated by conflict and displacement, with an estimated 23 million people experiencing crisis levels of food insecurity. The first phase of our programme in DRC supports mother and children through cash transfers to address one of the key drivers of food insecurity: affordability.

This multisectoral partnership looked to tackle childhood malnutrition in Madagascar, where are many as 42% of children suffer from stunting and as much as 10% of its GDP is lost each year.

This programme focused on taking nutrition services to scale whilst also supporting the Government of Liberia to strengthen healthcare facilities nationwide.

Our second programme in Liberia focused on strengthening nutrition interventions within health facilities, supporting social behaviour change campaigns, communication to create demand for services, enhancing behaviour and scaling preventative malnutrition services. The programme also piloted and scaled high-impact interventions that specifically support adolescent girls.

This ambitious programme provided financial support and technical guidance to the Government of Ethiopia to improve the reach of vital health and nutrition interventions to tackle the country’s high rate of stunting.

Mathilde is responsible for identifying opportunities for nutrition funding and programmes, pitching and building partnerships from the corporate sector.

The programme works with the Government of India and the Government of the State of Gujarat to support its nutrition systems and services

is responsible for building and nurturing partnerships with institutional organisations.

This programme aims to improve mothers’ and children’s nutritional wellbeing through supporting the government directly with coordination and planning, increasing communities understanding around nutrition

This $30 million programme supports governmental efforts to tackle malnutrition, scaling-up a range of high-impact nutrition interventions, supporting pregnant women and young children.

Our programme in Nigeria supports research and technical assistance provided by the World Bank which helps scale up a package of nutrition-related interventions in 12 states.

This partnership aims to tackle the high rates of anaemia in Zambia through multiple micronutrient supplements as an alternative to iron and folic acid. In doing so, it looks to generate evidence to support the wider scale-up of the intervention, both in Zambia and worldwide.

In our inaugural programme, we partnered with the World Bank and the Government of Tanzania to respond to persistently high levels of child stunting and maternal mortality rates in the country. Interventions were designed to improve maternal, neonatal and child health services nationwide.

By combining nutrition and immunisation interventions in one programme, we are able to have a greater impact on children’s overall health, ultimately enabling them to thrive.

Mark was most recently CEO at Anglo American for nine years and is credited for reviving the recent fortunes of the mining group.

David is a former Executive Director of UNICEF UK. He stepped down after nearly 17 years with the organisation.

Jonathan is a partner at the law firm Bircham Dyson Bell. He advises on a wide variety of commercial and constitutional issues affecting charities and is the first point of contact for many charity chief executives.

Al Cook became Chief Executive Officer of De Beers Group in February 2023.

Caroline is a Member of the Executive Committee of the Global Wealth Management Business of UBS AG, the world’s largest wealth manager.

Kul is a distinguished diplomat, development professional and a former senior official of the United Nations.

Pranav is the Managing Partner of the London office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (Skadden), one of the world’s leading law firms.

As is the Chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation Board and Former Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).

Anulika is the Founder of the Sequoia Platform, a leading educational not for profit focused on social mobility in the United Kingdom and Venture Partner Europe, Middle East and Africa at Sagana.

Susana is the Country Representative in Ecuador of CAF – the development bank for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Dr Jack Clift is our TAP Chair. He currently serves as Programme Director for Nutrition at Results for Development (R4D)

Fabian obtained his PhD in human nutrition from the ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has since been involved in managing, monitoring and evaluating nutrition and public health programmes.

Heather is the Project Director of the Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Activity (MSNA), USAID’s global nutrition project

Karin is a public health nutritionist who has spent the past 17 years working in international health, with a professional and academic focus on the prevention of chronic malnutrition

Klaus is the Managing Director of Sight and Life, a nutrition think tank headquartered in Switzerland

Melanie is the Global Technical Lead for Early Childhood Development (ECD) for Plan International since 2015

Rita brings in extensive experience and expertise in managing Public Health Nutrition programmes

Roger is a Clinical Nutritionist (MSc, RD) with two decades of national and international experience developing and managing health and nutrition programs in multi-cultural environments.

Marcia is President of The Manoff Group (TMG), a global leader in social and behaviour change (SBC)programming to improve the effectiveness of health and nutrition investments.

Rahul is a senior programme officer on the nutrition team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Anne has more than 20 years professional experience in the field of public health and nutrition both at global level and in a wide range of countries

Arvind has over 15 years of experience in Health and Nutrition. He is currently the Senior Rice Fortification Advisor for Asia and Pacific at the World Food Programme

Ian trained as a public health physician in Australia and has over 40 years experience in a variety of health-related organizations and in different countries

Alison has been involved in programme design for over 25 years, management, monitoring and evaluation of health and nutrition programmes in LMICs.

Andrew is a public health nutritionist and parasitologist with 40 years’ experience of work in more than 30 countries

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Andrews has 13 years of experience in technical and 13 years of experience in technical and programmatic aspects of public health nutrition

Amanda has expertise in nutrition financing, systems strengthening, multisectoral coordination and urban healthcare with strong research, evaluation and budgeting skills

Bruce is a research leader, project director and food security specialist with over 30 years of emergency and development-related experience

Danielle is a senior global health professional with over 10 years of experience in management, implementation and research

Flora has 30 years of experience in health and nutrition in international development and humanitarian contexts

Currently a Senior Research Fellow at IFPRA, Harold has nearly 40 years of experience in food and nutrition policy and research.

Helen is a leading expert in nutrition financing with extensive experience in economic research and evaluation projects focusing on health, nutrition, gender and poverty

John is a leading academic in nutrition economics and policy, with a focus on social protection, agriculture and gender

Monica currently serves as Project Director of Surveys for Monitoring in Resilience and Food Security at ICF, a global advisory and technology services provider.

Richard has an outstanding track record of experience in public policy work for the reduction of poverty, addressing inequalities and promoting human development progress, especially for those who are most vulnerable and most excluded

Theresa is a health and nutrition expert with experience in design and implementation of policies and projects in multiple nutrition and health-related areas

Vanessa currently serves as Head of Technical Excellence and Capability at Save the Children International

Yashodhara has more than 10 years of experience in international development, research and policy analysis