On March 27th and 28th, 2025, France hosted the Nutrition for Growth Summit (N4G) in Paris. Launched in 2013 in London, N4G is a flagship international conference aimed at securing concrete political and financial commitments to combat malnutrition in all its forms. 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. In preparation for the 2025 Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) hosted a two-day nutrition dialogue in Uganda, centred on workforce nutrition programs and their impact on employee’s health and wellbeing.
The event brought together more than 300 participants from a diverse range of stakeholders. These included representatives from financial institutions, healthcare, technology providers, marketing experts, academia, civil society organizations, food producers, and government officials from different ministries such as the Ministry of Agriculture, Health, Public Services and the Office of the Prime Minister which works as the leader of government business in Uganda. Building upon the 2021 N4G Summit, the dialogue aimed to explore synergies and strategies for leveraging workforce nutrition programs to combat malnutrition and enhance the health and well-being of the workforce in both structured and semi-structures workplaces with