Right2Grow at Nutrition for Growth 2025

20 Mar 2025

Next week, several Right2Grow partners will travel to Paris to present at Nutrition4Growth (N4G), a global pledging moment to mobilize commitments from state governments, the private sector, multilateral organizations and NGOs to end malnutrition. Right2Grow partners from 4 countries will present our Bridge4Voices approach, demonstrate how civil society organizations have been involved in shaping national nutrition commitments, engage with key stakeholders in the nutrition space, and call for continued involvement of civil society in nutrition governance and accountability.

What is Nutrition4Growth?

Since 2013, when the first N4G was held in London and 110 stakeholders committed over $23 billion to efforts to prevent stunting, tackle undernutrition and address malnutrition, N4G has been a crucial moment for nutrition actors to reinforce efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2, ending hunger in all its forms.

Every 4 years, following the Olympic Games, the host country of the Olympics convenes nutrition actors to reaffirm or update their commitments, and assess progress through monitoring frameworks for accountability. In 2021, the last N4G in Tokyo resulted in $27 billion in combined commitments from donors and multilateral institutions.

How has Right2Grow been working towards N4G?

After the Mid-Term Review, the Global L&A team shifted its priorities to focus more narrowly on two priorities: contributing to strong national and international commitments on nutrition at N4G Paris; and ensuring that civil society actors broadly, and R2G partners specifically, are actively engaged in the commitment making process at various levels, both before and after N4G.

In the past year, R2G has been working at national, regional and global levels to engage with the commitment making process. At the regional level, R2G organized and participated in N4G preparation workshops in Dakar, for West African countries, and Arusha, for East Africa countries. These workshops led to strong connections between civil society partners and produced concise and clear policy briefs that partners used at national level to influence commitments made by their national governments.

At national level, R2G organized and participated in various national processes for commitment making. For example, R2G co-organized a national nutrition dialogue in Uganda together with the Office of the Prime Minister. In Bangladesh, R2G partners were members of working groups on issues like gender and accountability, providing key contributions the helped shape the government’s commitments. Similarly, in South Sudan, R2G partners engaged constructively with Ministries and Parliamentarians to ensure commitments made incorporated key points from the policy briefs.

Finally, at the global level, the Global L&A team has been working hard to facilitate R2G partners’ participation in discussions at N4G Paris itself. Together with ACF and others, R2G is sponsoring the CSO Pavilion before N4G. R2G also provided 3 members of the Accountability Task Force, a working group providing recommendations to governments on civil society involvement in monitoring nutrition progress and holding governments to account for their commitments. Finally, Right2Grow was invited by the French Government, as one of only 5 CSO exhibitors, to present its innovative approach to nutrition advocacy as part of the Solutions Village, an official part of the Nutrition4Growth program.

What are we calling for?

Right2Grow partners will make use of N4G as a key advocacy opportunity towards national governments, donors, multilateral institutions and INGOs to call for, among others, the following:

Inclusive nutrition governance processes, especially inclusive of community voices and those of marginalized groups, like youth and women
Transparency and access to data, for example through sharing nutrition budget data, to ensure civil society can monitor expenditure and track progress on commitments
Addressing and preventing shrinking civic space, to facilitate continued involvement of civil society organizations in governance and enable communities to express their priorities and needs
Accessible and sustainable financial resources for civil society organizations to conduct both service delivery and advocacy efforts at local levels

Right2Grow activities during N4G