N4D supports nutrition integration across Global Gateway investments
The Global Gateway Strategy is the EU’s flagship approach to strengthening sustainable global partnerships, mobilising up to EUR 300 billion in investments across infrastructure, digital connectivity, healthcare, education, energy and transport. Ensuring that these investments improve nutrition outcomes is key to advancing human rights, and equality.
Malnutrition, in all its forms, continues to undermine not only the development and well-being of individuals, but also the sustainable and inclusive development of societies and economies in all parts of the world. Harnessing the Global Gateway to tackle the root causes of malnutrition requires ensuring the systematic integration of nutrition considerations across all investments.
Embedding Nutrition Across Global Gateway Investments
N4D supports the European Commission to mainstream nutrition across the Global Gateway, including through the European Fund for Sustainable Development Plus (EFSD+). By identifying nutrition-sensitive investment opportunities and supporting the use of blended finance, N4D helps ensure that Global Gateway delivers measurable nutrition outcomes. This includes:
- Embedding nutrition and diet quality related objectives and indicators into investment frameworks.
- Ensuring policy coherence across agriculture, trade, health, education and social protection to support nutrition outcomes.
- Promoting cross-sectoral collaboration between governments, civil society, and the private sector.
- Building capacity among stakeholders to implement nutrition-sensitive infrastructure projects.
- Strengthening regulations and legislative frameworks to protect food environments, promote fair wages, and ensure access to healthy diets.
Nutrition sensitive value chains is an example of how N4D and Global Gateway support better nutrition outcomes: agri-food value chains boost production, trade and economic growth and serves as excellent entry points for introducing or strengthening nutrition outcomes in international cooperation partner countries. You can read more about nutrition sensitive value chains in production of cashew nuts, cocoa, and coffee in the note Harnessing Agri-Food Value Chains to Improve Nutrition.
Value chain development of formulated complementary food (FCF) is ananother example of how N4D and Global Gateway support better nutrition outcomes. You can read more about formulated complementary food in this infographic.
