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N4D @ N4G 2025

On y va!! N4D is excited to be participating in the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit 2025 side events in Paris on 24-25 March, ahead of the main summit on 27-28 March.

PODCAST

During Nutrition for Growth Summit week, in collaboration with the Nutrition for Growth organising team, we will be releasing daily episodes of the N4D podcast reviewing key highlights from the day relating to Nutrition for Growth Paris 2025 aims and themes.

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Summit Overview

N4D is excited to be participating in the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit 2025. The Summit is a global pledging moment for nutrition hosted every four years by the Paralympic/Olympic host country

SIDE EVENTS INVOLVING N4D

Civil Society Pavilion, 24-25 March 
MONDAY 24 MARCH

17.30-18.30:
Scaling up efforts to sustainably prevent malnutrition in protracted crises (Big Conference Room)

Speakers from Ethiopia, Niger and Yemen will be sharing their experiences on this topic, particularly on catalysing development financing for building resilience and preventing malnutrition, alongside vital life saving humanitarian assistance.

The event will launch a Policy Brief on More and Better Financing for Nutrition in Protracted Crises, prepared by nutrition leaders from these three countries and Afghanistan.

TUESDAY 25 MARCH

09:30-10:45:
High level roundtable – Closing the financing gap for nutrition through country-specific commitments and accountability (Small Conference Room) 

Co-hosts:  Civil Society Scaling up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN); SDG2 Advocacy Hub; SUN Civil Society Network;SUN Movement Secretariat; and N4D.

Aims:
(1) Countries (Ethiopia and Nigeria) showcase their domestic financial commitments and donor commitments aligned with national nutrition priorities, as well as successful advocacy and accountability strategies they have employed.

(2) Representatives from national governments suggest how the global support system can support countries to mobilise and track finance aligned with national nutrition priorities. (3) Representatives from global and regional institutions and multistakeholder initiatives share their perspectives on how their initiatives work together to support countries to mobilise and track finance aligned with national nutrition priorities.

Participants include: Senior government and civil society representatives from Nigeria and Ethiopia; Afshan Khan, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement; Saulo Ceolin, General Coordinator for Food and Nutrition Security (CGSAN), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil; and the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty.

16.15-17.15:
Advocacy for country-led nutrition financing: A new consensus (Big Conference Room) 

Co-hosts: World Vision International; SUN Movement Secretariat, SUN Civil Society Network; N4D; and the SDG2 Advocacy Hub

This event will propose a strategic direction for nutrition finance advocacy, based on recommendations from new research. This includes case studies of mapping advocacy needs at the country level, showcasing the high-level and country-level work that can be achieved in this area. This event builds on meetings in London in April 2024 and seeks to catalyze a new consensus for nutrition advocacy to increase financing beyond this N4G Summit.

N4D @ N4G:  EPISODE 1

Brieuc Pont
Rebranding nutrition on the climb to the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit

“Nutrition has a branding issue – it’s about so much more than nutrition – I’d rather call it ‘superdevelopment’, the art of bringing together different areas of expertise for a tailor made policy for a given problem in a given context.”
 
Listen to fascinating ‘behind-the-scene’ insights from Brieuc Pont, Special Envoy on Nutrition and Secretary General of the N4G Summit to be held on 28-29 March in Paris, France. 
 
Career diplomat and Secretary General of the N4G Summit Brieuc Pont shares his challenging journey to ‘peak summit’, in this latest podcast in our “More – and better – financing for nutrition” series. How has he been making the case for ambitious policy and financial commitments and action from political leaders ahead of N4G 2025? 
 
 “Diplomats act as bridge-builders – we need to understand the technicalities of a particular issue after discussions with experts, then package this as a political process and bring it to a decision-making level”.
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N4D’s directors ask Brieuc about:
  • his hopes and expectations for the summit;
  • the positive experiences and challenges he has experienced in the summit build-up;
  • which arguments have worked in convincing decision-makers to prioritise nutrition investment in such challenging times;  
  • what are the financing alternatives in the light of USAID’s suspended budgets;
  • and how the sector can keep momentum going in between summits?
Tune in to hear Brieuc’s views on what the nutrition sector needs to do to improve its “branding” – as the most cost-effective development policy, with the highest return of $23 for every $1 invested. Adapting to new realities at a time when many high income countries are reducing aid means mobilising new investment partners – including development banks, such as the Asian Development Bank that pledged US$3 billion at COP26.
“We need to push for integrating nutrition at the highest political level among national institutions. N4G 2025 is an opportunity for raising the profile of nutrition among politicians and for transforming the way we ‘do’ development.”

Tune in to hear some answers in this important discussion, in preparation for the Nutrition for Growth summit in Paris

OUR GUEST

Brieuc is France’s special envoy on nutrition and secretary-general of the Nutrition for Growth Summit. He previously served as France’s ambassador to Nicaragua 2020-2023 and consul general in Sao Paulo 2016-2020.

He is a graduate of the Bordeaux Institute of Political Studies. He holds a post-graduate diploma in Political Communication from the University of Paris.

N4D @ Nutrition for Growth

N4G commitments are pledges made by governments, businesses, and civil society organisations to improve nutrition worldwide, particularly for vulnerable populations including children and women. In 2021, the N4G Tokyo Summit mobilized over $27 billion through 396 registered commitments from 181 stakeholders across 78 countries.

Nutrition for Growth Paris will be a multi-stakeholder summit, advocating for ambitious financial and political commitments and fostering dialogue among diverse actors from around the world, including governments, international organisations, research institutions, civil society organisations, philanthropies, the private sector and more.

N4D will be very active in the build-up to and during the week of the Summit, which includes pre-Summit events on 24-25 March. Our main aim is to help government and civil society partners from countries most affected by malnutrition to share their successes, challenges and commitments. We also aim to support country partners to stimulate discussion and decisions on how international actors can better support countries to address their priority financial, advocacy and technical support needs.

KEY AIMS OF THE NUTRITION FOR GROWTH SUMMIT 2025
Hosted by the Government of France, the N4G Paris 2025 aims to:
  • Put nutrition at the centre of the sustainable development agenda
  • Make the fight against all forms of malnutrition a universal cause
  • Create continuity between N4G summits and in the commitments for good nutrition
  • Mobilize ambitious new political and financial commitments for nutrition

Carmel Dolan

Director & Founder

Chris Leather

Director & Founder

Jeremy Shoham

Director & Founder
La Serre, Pavilion 6 – Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, 2 Avenue de la Porte de la Plaine, 75015 Paris

In the build–up to the N4G Summit, we have been releasing a series of podcast conversations on the theme of ´More and better financing for nutrition´. This popular series has featured participants with very different perspectives, from Felix Phiri’s country 20+ years’ experience in managing budgets in Malawi at the heart of government efforts on nutrition, to insights at a global level from Meera Shekar, main author of the World Bank Nutrition Investment Framework, into how countries and global structures can better advocate for funding nutrition. A podcast with Greg S. Garrett provides a unique viewpoint on private sector finance from his role as Executive Director of Access to Nutrition initiative (ATNI), a ‘not-for-profit’ organization. 

PODCAST SERIES:
MORE AND BETTER FINANCING FOR NUTRITION