Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit

Background

Prompted by the 2012 London Olympics, the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit is the flagship international conference on global nutrition hosted every four years by the Paralympic/Olympic host country.

N4G brings together governments, international organisations, philanthropies, businesses, NGOs and other key stakeholders at a global and regional level to elevate nutrition as a key development agenda and accelerate progress against malnutrition.

The N4G Summit offers a unique platform for sharing successes and solutions and building commitments for Nutrition for Growth, and Nutrition for… Good!

2025 PARIS N4G

With five years left to rapidly accelerate progress toward the achievement of the Sustainable Development Agenda’s target of ending malnutrition by 2030, N4G aims to mobilise new and ambitious political and financial commitments from the international community.

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What would success look like for Paris N4G?

1. Put nutrition at the heart of the sustainable development agenda.

• Prioritize local and sustainable approaches to ensure diverse and accessible, healthy, nutritious, and sustainable diets.
• Integrate actions with positive climate and nutrition outcomes into agri-food systems.

2. Make the fight against all forms of malnutrition a universal cause.

• Mobilize efforts for nutrition services to be provided through health care coverage and social protection systems to reduce and include all forms of malnutrition.
• Focus on finding solutions to reduce and eliminate the nutrition gap among the most vulnerable.

3. Create continuity between N4G Summits and in commitments to good nutrition.

• Support the new and/or scaled nutrition commitments to ensure that the overall Summit narrative integrates the priorities around the N4G thematic areas.
• Indicate opportunities for enhancing evidence-based policies and programs aligned with the national strategies and priorities set by the governments.

4. Maintain a high level of political and financial commitment.

• Emphasize policy and financial coherence across multiple sectors, ensuring commitments are adequately reflected and supported through innovative financing methods.
• Collect innovative practices to better track progress on commitments and improve decision-making and accountability at global, regional, and national levels.

The Paris N4G Summit aims at:

• Elevate nutrition in the global development agenda to maximize the impact of existing investment and aid to improve nutrition now and post-SDGs.
• Mobilize and catalyze interest from the international community to step up for better nutrition. Invitations will be extended to 30 countries, including 15 from the European Union and 15 from non-EU regions, to bring a diverse array of geographical perspectives and experiences. Development banks' engagement will be emphasized to deepen their involvement in addressing nutrition challenges.
• Create continuity in the N4G processes and the commitments for good nutrition, working closely with the Japanese, French, and US governments, hosts of the N4G Summits.
• Maintain a high level of political and financial engagement to nutrition.

What is in it for GAIN?

For GAIN, in addition to supporting the achievement of the above goals through engagement and advocacy efforts, we will showcase the full range of joined-up food system interventions to achieve healthier diets for all in the countries where we are operational. GAIN will support governments in the N4G stock-taking and formulation of stronger, broader, and more implementable country commitments for nutrition.

GAIN is eager to emphasize the importance of pivotal solutions such as workforce nutrition, the role of SMEs and SMEs financing, and most importantly data, accountability, and policy influencing in moving forward the needle to end malnutrition. Together with its partners, GAIN will work with DFIs and climate finance organizations to make the first-time N4G nutrition commitments.

Built on our efforts at Tokyo N4G, GAIN will seek to harness the capacity of the private sector to transform food systems and tackle malnutrition. Businesses large and small are the main drivers behind the action, investment, and financial flows that supply our diets everywhere. By providing an open platform for meaningful dialogue, we aim to achieve impactful and measurable results with consumers, government, investors, and markets.

Paris N4G Governance

Paris N4G will be an inclusive multi-stakeholder summit advocating for open and meaningful dialogue between different actors from all continents to move the nutrition agenda forward: governments, international organisations, civil society, investor community, philanthropies, private sector actors and many more will be called to help maintain high level political and financial engagement for nutrition.

A National Steering Committee (Team France), comprising French policy makers, NGOs, academics and private sector representatives, will provide and coordinate the process, facilitate national and global commitments, support decision-making and finalisation of the N4G Principles of Engagement, Vision and Roadmap.

An International Advisory Group (Team World), comprising international organisations, and including a Troika made up of the last, current, and future N4G hosts, will be set up in September to produce meaningful contributions in several key thematic areas under the convening power of UN agencies:

• Nutrition and gender equality
• Climate and Sustainable Food Systems
• Nutrition, health and social protection
• Nutrition and resilience to crises (nutritional efforts in fragile and conflict-affected contexts)
• Nutrition, data, Innovation, IA
• Nutrition, finance and accountability

The Independent Expert Panel, bringing together a group of opinion leaders, will convey the views of high-level experts and inform the negotiations. The Expert Panel will support the identification and then prioritisation of essential actions required to improve nutrition in all its aspects.

GAIN’s Involvement in the N4G Process 

GAIN is one of the official partners involved in the N4G process, actively contributing to ensure that nutrition is uplifted in the global agenda, mobilizing and catalysing interest. A successful N4G is everyone’s interest. It benefits nutrition, health, and global prosperity.

GAIN will be actively involved in the Paris N4G through different angles:

Lawrence Haddad, GAIN Executive Director, is one of the members of Independent Expert Panel 

GAIN is one of the international organizations involved in the International Committee

With ATNI and Paris Peace Forum, GAIN is co-chairing the Private Sector Working Group

Road to N4G