28/04/2026
On Day 2 of tWorld Health Summit Regional Meeting 2026 - Nairobi:
Our Interim Executive Director Aloyce Urassa contributed to a critical conversation on Nutrition across the lifecourse in Africa, exploring pathways for health and sustainable development.
The followings are key highlights and call to action from Amplify Health and Development in Africa (AHDA) presentation:
1. Nutrition is multisectoral — shaped by climate change, financial constraints, conflicts, and more. We emphasized the need for coordinated action across sectors, from communities to global stakeholders, and shared how Tanzania’s multisectoral nutrition scorecard is strengthening accountability and driving action.
2. Integration is key to success — we shared lessons learned from implementing integrated advocacy through community dialogues on climate change and health, using the Integrated Community Dialogue Toolkit. Through this approach, trained youth and CHWs are leading community dialogues identifying local challenges, co-create solutions, and define actionable recommendations.
3. Communities as co-creators — women, adolescents, youth, and CHWs are not only vehicles of interventions but co-creators of nutrition solutions. Engaging them from designing through implementation and follow-up leads to better results.
4. Evidence-driven innovation — research and innovation grounded in community evidence are essential to foster realistic and scalable solutions that ensure nutrition throughout the lifecourse.
5. Role of CSOs— they play crucial role in advocacy, social and behavior change, and in strengthening the uptake of interventions at all levels. Empowering and engaging them remains critical.
Our commitment to building healthy, developed and resilient communities remains clear as we continue pushing the agenda.
