This year, our Right2Grow program teams in Uganda and Ethiopia made great strides in mobilizing community-based organizations for advocacy action as the world prepares for the Nutrition4Growth conference, scheduled for March 2025. In June, we partnered with the SUN Network CASCADE and GAIN to organize an accountability workshop with community-based organizations, civil society organizations and non-governmental organizations in the Eastern and Southern Region of Africa to develop policy recommendations and advocacy campaigns. Two of these policies were adopted in the Regional Resolution of the 73rd Conference of Ministers of Health of Eastern and Southern Africa. These recommendations focus on: (1) Strengthening multisectoral collaboration, including the engagement of CSOs, for advocacy and investment in nutrition, and (2) Adopting innovative approaches such as the Triple Nexus (Humanitarian, Development and Peace) model to address nutrition and food crises, including humanitarian situations.
The Hunger Project, through the Right2Grow consortium, is committed to including local perspectives in all our recommendations at Nutrition4Growth. Read more about the national position papers we have developed with our partners here.
