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25/05/2026

This World Africa Day, we're reflecting on what's possible when African leadership drives the nutrition agenda. 🌍

Africa has the world's youngest population. Ensuring that generation grows up well-nourished isn't just a health goal — it's the foundation for the continent's future.

In 2022, Nutrition International and the African Union signed their first-ever memorandum of understanding. Over three years, it helped put nutrition at the centre of regional policy: spurring the AU's Year of Nutrition, strengthening strategies across member states, and making the case that food and nutrition are core to economic resilience.

Now, with a second MoU underway, we're looking back at seven ways progress took shape under the first.

Read the full story here: https://nutritionintl.org/news/all-stories/advancing-africas-nutrition-agenda/

23/05/2026

We were honoured to accompany the Honourable Randeep S. Sarai, Secretary of State (International Development), to Apo Primary Healthcare Centre in Abuja this week.

Seeing Secretary of State Sarai engage directly with frontline health workers, parents, and the children receiving vaccines and vitamin A supplementation was a meaningful reminder of why this work matters.

Canada's longstanding commitment to maternal and child health in Nigeria continues to make a real difference in communities, and partnerships like this one are at the heart of it. We're grateful for the support and for the shared belief that every child deserves a healthy start.

Thank you, Secretary of State Sarai, for championing this important work alongside us.

19/05/2026

When fathers get involved, families thrive.

In Ethiopia, Nutrition International brought groups of fathers together to talk openly about something that's often left to mothers alone: family health. Through peer-led conversations on nutrition, caregiving, and pregnancy, these men began to see themselves as active partners in their families' wellbeing.

The results speak for themselves. Of the 1,394 fathers who took part, 92% completed the full program. Knowledge of key health messages rose from as low as 4% to 75%. And fathers reported making real changes at home, from supporting their wives during pregnancy to talking openly with their adolescent daughters.

This is what it looks like when gender-transformative programming works. Learn more about the Father-to-Father initiative and what it could mean for communities across Ethiopia and beyond.

Read the full case study here:

https://nutritionintl.org/learning-resource/fathers-as-change-agents-ethiopia-scalable-model-for-gender-transformative-action/

15/05/2026

Happy International Day of Families! 💙

Families are where health begins. From a mother's nutrition during pregnancy to the food on a child's plate in their first years of life, what happens within families has a lasting impact on how children grow and develop.

This year's UN theme, "Families, Inequalities and Child Wellbeing", is a reminder that not all families have equal access to what they need. Poverty, limited healthcare, and poor nutrition can shape a child's future before they even start school.

At Nutrition International, we work alongside governments and communities to help close that gap, because every child, in every family, deserves a healthy start.

13/05/2026

no cap, fortification is lowkey gas 🔥

Learn more about food fortification, and why it is ranked one of the highest-return interventions in global development.

https://nutritionintl.org/our-work/how-we-help/fortification/

12/05/2026

Nutrition International joined partners at the West and Central Africa Conference on Nutrition & Early Years in Lomé, Togo, to advance the case for linking nutrition and early childhood development to human capital.

We presented our Cost of Inaction tool — an evidence-driven resource helping countries understand the true economic and human cost of underinvesting in nutrition. It supports governments and partners in making smarter decisions on policy, prioritization, and resource allocation.

The stakes are high. Stunting still affects nearly one in three children under five across Sub-Saharan Africa, carrying substantial economic consequences. Yet cost-effective interventions exist — and even modest progress matters. A 5% reduction in stunting alone could generate over USD 18 billion in economic benefits across the region in a single year.

When we fail to invest early, we compromise future economies. When we act, the returns for individuals, countries, and regions are immense. We're committed to equipping governments and partners with the tools and evidence to direct investments where they matter most.

Explore our Cost of Inaction tool: https://nutritionintl.org/learning-resource/cost-inaction-tool/

11/05/2026

What happens when young people finally feel safe enough to ask for help? Everything changes. ✨

In Tabora, Tanzania, the BRIGHT project is making health services work for adolescents; not just in clinics, but in schools and communities too.

Here's what that looks like on the ground:

🏥 Dedicated youth-friendly programming with integrated health, nutrition, family planning & GBV support across clinics and community settings

🌱 School gardens teaching students skills that help them stay in school

🤝 Peer educators building trust, village by village

💰 Youth savings groups giving young people economic options — and safer futures

Because when adolescents have the right support, they thrive.

Read the full story:

https://nutritionintl.org/news/all-stories/youth-friendly-services-adolescents-voice-tabora/

Supported by the Canada’s International Development – Global Affairs Canada, Implemented by Nutrition International with EngenderHealth and TAWLA Tanzania Women Lawyers Association.

08/05/2026

What does it take to support a healthy pregnancy, beyond the clinic?

In Bauchi State, Nigeria, mama-to-mama groups are helping bridge the gap. Through peer support and home visits, women are encouraging each other to seek care early, stay engaged throughout pregnancy, and take their multiple micronutrient supplements (MMS) every day.

Our latest video goes inside this community-centred approach, part of implementation research led by the Government of Nigeria and Bauchi State in partnership with Nutrition International.

▶️ Watch the full video:

https://nutritionintl.org/news/all-stories/watch-community-support-and-clinic-care-in-pregnancy-mms-bauchi-nigeria/

07/05/2026

💡 Doing nothing has a cost. A BIG one.

Undernutrition isn’t just a health issue. Every year, it costs the world USD $761 billion in lost productivity, higher health care bills and preventable deaths.

Our Cost of Inaction Tool shows how problems like stunting, anaemia and low birthweight ripple through society:
📚 Fewer school years completed
💼 Lower workforce participation
💰 Reduced lifetime earnings
📉 Slower economic growth

Every year we wait, children lose potential, communities lose resilience and economies lose momentum.

📊 The tool turns these numbers into evidence — helping policymakers, advocates and funders take action.

Doing nothing isn’t free. The world can’t afford it.

👉 See the tool here: https://www.nutritionintl.org/learning-resource/cost-inaction-tool/

04/05/2026

1 in 3 adolescent girls in Africa are anaemic, and the cost to the global economy is an estimated USD $113 billion a year in lost learning, absenteeism and reduced productivity. These are not abstract figures. They represent real potential, left unrealized.

In his latest article, our Regional Director for Africa, Albert Kombo, makes the case for why adolescent nutrition must be treated as foundational to the continent's future — not as an afterthought — as leaders gathered in Nairobi for the World Health Summit Regional Meeting.

The solutions exist. The evidence is clear. What's needed now is the political will and sustained investment to act at scale.

👉 Read Albert's full article to learn what's at stake and what's possible.

https://nutritionintl.org/news/all-stories/investing-in-adolescent-nutrition-essential-to-africas-future/

29/04/2026

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