N4D director Chris Leather took part in a recent two-day retreat in Ottawa to reimagine Canada’s role in global nutrition. The event, organised by Action Against Hunger Canada and the Canadian Partnership for Women and Children’s Health(CanWaCH), brought together leaders and experts from the public, private, philanthropic, academic and civil society sectors, both in-country and from around the world

Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health, with support from N4D, ran a two-day workshop in Addis Ababa last week to further develop its ground-breaking Nutrition Centric-Humanitarian Development Peace Triple Nexus (NC-HDPTN) joint assessment and data analysis tool. The...

Yemen will soon be formally launching its new multi-sector plan for nutrition with an allied investment case. N4D looks back at the situation three years ago when we first started working with the SUN Yemen Secretariat (SYS), different sectors and many international...

A highlight of the N4GParis Summit was the high-level political commitment demonstrated by many Governments of countries with the highest burdens of malnutrition.There are other countries where there is great work going on at a technical level to integrate nutrition...

If you speak to national actors in countries affected by protracted or recurrent crises many express a strongly held belief that international development partners are focussing too much on humanitarian programming at the expense of longer-term development investment....

Over the last few years many of us in the international nutrition world have talked about the need to strengthen the humanitarian and development nexus (HDN). This isn’t a new idea and harks back at least 30 years to notions of better linking relief and development...

In this piece, N4D shares thoughts on two inter-connected issues in fragile and conflict affected contexts (FCAS): (i) resilience building and (ii) more efficient and sustainable means of providing aid. This is timely as we head to the much awaited Nutrition for...