Projects that work for improved nutrition
The European Commission's approach is that what works best for improved nutrition is a sustained, multi-sectoral, gender-transformative and rights-based approach. Areas of investment by the EU have therefore encompassed both support for inclusive, sustainable food systems - encompassing economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainability - and the public provision of universal health, education and social protection services.
By ensuring a strong focus on achieving healthy diets, actions can serve the double duty of simultaneously tackling all forms of malnutrition and addressing the worrying trends towards excessive consumption of packaged ultra-processed foods, beverages and snacks in low- and middle-income countries. The transformation of entrenched inequalities, such as those related to wealth and gender, remains a fundamental cross-cutting priority.
The publication Projects that work for improved nutrition provides examples of how the EU supports partner countries in nutrition and project results.
At the globel level, a number of advisory projects are part of the implementation of the Action Plan on Nutrition.
Global level advisory projects
- National Information Platforms for Nutrition
- Nutrition Research Facility
- Capacity for Nutrition
- Food Fortification Advisory Service
Case studies
A number of case studies also provide examples of the work of the European Union in nutrition:
- Suchana: Ending the cycle of undernutrition in Bangladesh
- EU Trust Fund: Holistic resilience actions to improve child nutrition in Burkina Faso
- AGPII: Harnessing agricultural investments to improve the diets of women and children in Ethiopia
- National Information Platforms for Nutrition: Using data to accelerate change in people’s lives
- IRRIGAR: Homestead irrigation improves diets in Mali for women and children
- The MDG1c programme: building resilience for better diets in Mozambique
- The Livelihoods and Food Security Fund: Improving nutrition in Myanmar by transforming and empowering lives
- Renforcement des Capacités de Réponse Nutritionnelle en Haïti (COVID-19)
- The Gambia: Building resilience through social transfers (BReST) (COVID-19)
- Lao PDR: Insights and achievements from the SCALING and AHAN projects (COVID-19)
- ZRBF: District level actions to strengthen resilience in Zimbabwe (COVID-19)
- The ACCEND project: Advancing nutrition in rural Sri Lanka (COVID-19)
- Improving the resilience of vulnerable populations in Guinea (COVID-19).