N4G Civil Society Pavillion - Day 2

The week of the 24th to 28th of March 2025, France will host the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit, an international conference on nutrition. Civil society experts in nutrition are calling for the Summit to be organized with their meaningful participation to ensure the most affected people’s needs are met, and for the political commitments made to tackle the root causes of hunger and nutritional insecurity.
To make sure civil society voices are heard our organisations have decided to gather under the Civil Society Pavilion from the 24th to the 25th of March 2025. The aim is to highlight the work of civil society and to ensure that all stakeholders place nutrition at the heart of development policies and are aligned with people’s needs.

Location: La Serre - Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, 2 Av. de la Porte de la Plaine, 75015 Paris

Closing the Financing Gap for Nutrition through Country Specific Commitments and Accountability

Date and time: 25 March at 9:30 - 10:45am CET

Organizers: SUN CSA Nigeria, SUN Civil Society Network, SUN Movement Secretariat, N4D and the SDG2 Advocacy Hub.

Location: Small Conference Room – CSO Pavillion La Serre

This side event showcases domestic and aligned investments and explores ways in which the global architecture can enhance support to country-led efforts to mobilise and track resources aligned with national priorities. 

Nutrition for Growth: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development and Food Systems Transitions

Date and Time
Tuesday, March 25th 2025, 17h00 to 19h00
Location
Sciences Po University, Paris, Salle Chapsal (Address: 27, rue Saint Guillaume - Paris)

Description
This official N4G Summit side event will offer a venue for Summit organizers and senior global nutrition policy experts to engage Sciences Po students and other invited guests on the topic of nutrition and its vital role in sustainable development, peace and security. The event will seek to engage and mobilize the student community in discussions on nutrition and the fight against global hunger and malnutrition. The event will also highlight crucial links between nutrition, geopolitics, conflict and climate change, and will underscore the need for adequate policy attention and
financing to address these challenges. The conference will be introduced by Mark Maloney, Vice Dean of Sciences Po’s Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), and moderated by Adjunct Professor Chris Hegadorn. Divided into two parts, Part One will feature N4G Summit senior representatives from France and Japan who will speak to their countries’ respective efforts on nutrition and goals of the Summit. Part Two will consist of a high-level panel of nutrition experts who will further explore key issues regarding nutrition security and sustainable development.
Students will be encouraged to pose questions to all speakers, enabling them to engage directly with the experts to explore these crucial challenges and opportunities.
During the run-up to the side event and Summit, a video contest - open to all Sciences Po Paris students - will be launched. Students will have the opportunity to prepare a brief video on the theme of global nutrition, with details on content, timing and format to be shared widely. A panel will select the overall winner, whose video will be shared during the Side Event (and, possibly during the Summit, itself).

N4G Civil Society Pavillion - Day 1

The week of the 24th to 28th of March 2025, France will host the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit, an international conference on nutrition. Civil society experts in nutrition are calling for the Summit to be organized with their meaningful participation to ensure the most affected people’s needs are met, and for the political commitments made to tackle the root causes of hunger and nutritional insecurity.
To make sure civil society voices are heard our organisations have decided to gather under the Civil Society Pavilion from the 24th to the 25th of March 2025. The aim is to highlight the work of civil society and to ensure that all stakeholders place nutrition at the heart of development policies and are aligned with people’s needs.

Location: La Serre - Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, 2 Av. de la Porte de la Plaine, 75015 Paris

Community of Practice : Financing of nutrition policies and nutrition actions

This event, addressed to SUN Countries in the Latin America and Caribbean Hub, is a virtual event organized by the SUN Movement and FIIAPP around the financing of nutrition policies and nutrition actions.

SUN Civil Society Network Latin America and Caribbean Regional Meeting

The SUN Civil Society Network hosted its 3rd Latin America and Caribbean Regional Meeting in Bogota, Colombia from 24 to 28 February 2025 with almost 30 participants from 8 Civil Society Alliances to determine actions for a lasting impact.

Over the course of 5 days, participants discussed the upcoming strategy and set their nutrition commitments ahead of N4G while sharing country experiences and peer-to-peer learnings. 

SUN Civil Society Network Asia Regional Meeting

The SUN Civil Society Network Asia Regional Meeting was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka from Feb 17-21 with 40 participants from 15 CSAs across Asia. Over the course of the 5-day gathering, participants got to discuss the upcoming regional strategy while sharpening their nutrition commitments ahead of the N4G summit. 

Roundtable: Policy and research roundtable dialogue on integrated climate-nutrition action

The Initiative on Climate Action and Nutrition is hosting a roundtable in Rome on the 5th of February on Climate Change and Nutrition. 

Date and time 
5th February 2025 | 10:00-13:00 (CET) 

Meeting modality 
Hybrid event.
Registration link: https://fao.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UqcZKWUxSdeWbss5Afc1Jg#/registration 

The purpose of the event is to facilitate knowledge exchange between lead researchers and policymakers to outline critical data and evidence needs for science-driven policy, action, and investment in Climate Change and Nutrition. This Roundtable Event, organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of France with support of the Initiative on Climate Action and Nutrition (I-CAN) partners including the World Health Organization (WHO), the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), and the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement and Standing Together for Nutrition/ Micronutrient Forum and the Sick Kids Hospital/ Aga Khan University, is an important milestone in the build-up to the Paris 2025 Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit.

Online workshop for West and Central African media partners on N4G and the lobbying role of media

With two months to go before the next N4G summit, scheduled to take place in Paris on March 27-28 2025, it is important to continue mobilizing the players with the power to influence the adoption of ambitious and realistic commitments within countries. With this in mind, the Secretariat of the SUN Movement for Francophone Africa, in collaboration with the EU4SUN project, financed by the European Union and implemented by Expertise France in West Africa, is organizing a webinar for African journalists and communicators already grouped in national networks and a regional network in favor of nutrition. 

This online workshop, set for 31 Januarya 2025, will aim to emphasize the role of African journalists and communicators committed to influencing governments in West and Central Africa  to commit in favour of nutrition during the upcoming Paris N4G Summit 2025.

More information and registration link will be made available here shortly.

Roundtable: Country-led financing strategies for nutrition in Africa

This event, organized by the SUN Movement Secretariat, FCDP and C4N, expected to welcome up to 14 SUN countries from the Francophone Africa, Anglophone Africa and Convergence Hubs.

The 2-day program aims to maximize opportunity for discussion and dialogue across all participants. The event program will include interactive sessions that

1) lay the foundation of evidence on what works to improve nutrition and the amount of resources needed,

2) provide an overview of nutrition financing trends and targeted opportunities across sectors that boost nutrition,

3) roundtable discussion sharing country experiences on strengthening nutrition financing, and

4) discuss vision of success for Africa region.

Asia Regional Webinar on Nutrition for Growth (N4G) 2025 - Orientation on Commitment-Making Guide and Key Processes

As the next N4G summit approaches, it is crucial to provide countries with the necessary tools, information, and processes that will aid them in making impactful commitments. To support this, SUN Movement Secretariat- Asia (SMS Asia) is organizing a regional virtual webinar for the SUN countries in the region to orient them on the upcoming summit’s processes and methodology.
This webinar will build on the experience and lessons generated from focused technical assistance (TA) support provided through Capacity for Nutrition (C4N- led by GiZ) to the five countries in the region (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, Indonesia, and Timor Leste) for the N4G commitment making. It is to be noted that this TA support is implemented with the support of SUN Civil Society Network- SUN CSN (regional & in country), UN agencies and other partners such as Nutrition International at the country level.

This webinar will take place on 15 January from 09:00 to 11:00 CET.

Objectives of the webinar:
● Familiarize the N4G commitment making guide, processes, methodology, and key tools.
● Provide a space for sharing experiences and learning about best practices and
challenges in formulating and measuring commitments.

Join the event here.

Communities of Practice: Tools for gender transformation for N4G

This event, addressed to SUN Countries in the Latin America and Caribbean Hub, is a virtual event organized by the SUN Movement and FIIAPP around N4G gender-focused commitments.

Communities of Practice: Practical orientation to the new N4G commitment process

This event, addressed to SUN Countries in the Latin America and Caribbean Hub, is a virtual event organized by the SUN Movement and FIIAPP to support countries in the N4G commitment making process.

Anglophone Africa regional Workshop on N4G and Nutrition Financing

This workhop for SUN Countries in the Anglophone Africa region will be hosted by the SUN Movement, FIIAPP and the Global Nutrition Report team in Mombasa, Kenya, from 10 to 11 December 2024.

The workshop will focus on best practices and challenges related to formulating  and assessing N4G commitments, validate assessment tools and develop a regional roadmap to N4G Paris.

Nutrition Dialogue in Geneva

Co-hosted by World Vision, 4SD and GAIN, this event will take place in Geneva, Switzerland and it will focus on the Nutrition Dialogues programme.

More information will be made available in due course.

Francophone Africa - Regional Dialogue on Improving Access to Locally Produced Nutritious and Safe Complementary Foods in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

The European Commission, Micronutrient Forum and the World Food Program (WFP), as co-hosts, in close collaboration with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), GRET and ATNI (Access to Nutrition Initiative) are organizing a ‘Regional Dialogue on Improving Access to Locally Produced Nutritious and Safe Complementary Foods in Low- and Middle-Income Countries’ from December 1 - 3, 2024 in Dakar, Senegal, strategically coinciding with the Foire Internationale de Dakar (FIDAK).

The organization of this meeting is financed by the European Union and generously supported by Expertise France through their EU4SUN project.

The meeting agenda will adopt a systems approach and be highly interactive. Participants are expected to arrive on December 1, with a welcome reception and a visit to the locally produced nutritious food stand sponsored by WFP at FIDAK in the late afternoon and evening. The official discussions will take place on Monday, December 2 and Tuesday, December 3. The meeting agenda and pre-reads will be shared two weeks before the meeting. In continuum with the regional dialogue, WFP and the Senegalese Food and Nutrition Association (ANAS) are organizing a nutrition value chain fair and seminar at the FIDAK. By bringing nutrition into focus at this business fair, they aim to emphasize the need for locally produced, safe and nutritious foods to improve access to healthy meals and fight malnutrition. WFP and ANAS seek to strengthen food systems by supporting local producers and inspire innovative solutions to promote healthier food choices and improve food security for vulnerable communities across West Africa. 

Objectives of the Meeting

This meeting will bring together stakeholders from across the food system to collaboratively:

• Identify context-specific, evidence-based investment priorities and strategies for local commercial production of (fortified) foods for complementary feeding.

• Foster partnerships between national and regional stakeholders by exchanging experiences, best practices, and lessons learned to promote continuous improvements in access to safe and nutritious local solutions.

• Inform regional and country commitments for the Nutrition for Growth summit (N4G), hosted by the French Government in March 2025 in Paris, with the intent of creating an enabling policy environment, establishing programs and partnerships, discussing multi-sectoral linkages, and making investments to stimulate demand and accelerate the availability of locally produced nutritious and safe complementary foods (CF).

Expected Outcomes

This regional meeting will lay the groundwork for actionable strategies that can enhance food availability, affordability, and accessibility for vulnerable children. The discussions and recommendations of the meeting will inform and encourage regional and country commitments at the N4G Summit in Paris, in March 2025. Specifically, the meeting will be instrumental in:

1. Establishing agreed-upon investment priorities for enhancing local production of safe and nutritious complementary foods (CF) to guide governments, donors, and the private sector.
2. Delivering actionable policy recommendations for creating an enabling environment to support local CF production, with a focus on improving policy and regulatory frameworks, reducing supply chain barriers, and increasing access to finance.
3. Strengthening public-private partnerships to support the development and distribution of locally produced nutritious CF.

Consultation on the Identification of Good Practices of African countries 

Côte d'Ivoire is organizing, in collaboration with the African  Union Commission, the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement and partner organizations, through CERFAM, a consultation on the identification of Good Practices in African countries. 

The regional consultation, under the high patronage of the Vice-President of the Republic, will be  held from 26 to 28 November 2024 in Abidjan and will be preceded by a virtual preliminary exchange meeting from 13 to 14 November 2024. The first phase of this meeting will see the  participation of experts from African States and their technical and financial partners. The second  phase to be determined will concern experts in the field of food security. 

To maximize the impact of this consultation and respond to the growing challenges related to  nutrition in Africa, the experts will also discuss aspects related to the commitments to be made by  States at the upcoming Nutrition for Growth (N4G) summit.

Community of Practice: Human Right to Food and N4G

This event, addressed to SUN Countries in the Latin America and Caribbean Hub, is a virtual event organized by the SUN Movement and FIIAPP around the human right to food and the Nutrition For Growth Summit.

Anglophone Africa Regional N4G Sensitization Webinar

This regional sensitization webinar provided an opportunity to launch a comprehensive support program (by the SUN Movement and FIIAPP), sensitize countries on the upcoming N4G summit and update countries on upcoming events regarding N4G support in the region (including regional in-person workshop and in-country technical support).

The webinar recording will be made available here.