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Nutrition Accountability Framework launched ahead of N4G to track SMART commitments
The Global Nutrition Report has this week launched the Nutrition Accountability Framework and accompanying commitment registration and tracking platform. It has been launched ahead of the upcoming 7-8 December 2021 Nutrition for Growth Summit being held in Tokyo and virtually. The Nutrition Accountability Framework (NAF) creates the world’s first independent and comprehensive platform for registering SMART nutrition commitments and monitoring nutrition action. It…
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Free Scholarships and Early Bird rates now available for our ‘Get Started’ Technical Support Programme
The Workforce Nutrition Alliance is pleased to announce that it is now offering special “early bird” discount rates and free scholarships for its new hands-on technical support programme. These are designed to help companies and organisations to kickstart development of their workforce nutrition programme. The Get Started Technical Support Programme is launching on 1 November 2021, and provides five months…
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Viewpoint: Leveraging workforce nutrition for better health across the value chain – Unilever
By Diana Han, MD — Chief Medical Officer, Unilever With the UN Food Systems Summit fast approaching and with my colleague Anjalli Ravi Kumar having spoken at the recent UN Food Systems Summit Pre-Summit, I thought it was a perfect time for me, as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of a global business, to reflect on what we…
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Viewpoint: Head of The Consumer Goods Forum shares perspective on workforce nutrition
By Wai-Chan Chan, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum I recently had the pleasure of speaking at the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit in Rome on the topic of nutrition. The event helps to set the stage for the culminating global event in September by bringing together diverse actors from around the world to leverage the power of food…
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Workforce Nutrition in the Spotlight at Pre-Summit of United Nations Food Systems Summit
Geneva, 5 August 2021 — This year is a critical year for efforts to combat global malnutrition, as 2021 marks the halfway point in the United Nations (UN) Decade of Action on Nutrition, while the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) is set to take place in September and the Nutrition for Growth Summit in December. The…
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Government of Bangladesh Statement on Workforce Nutrition as a lever of change
The Government of Bangladesh has been a strong proponent of workforce nutrition, with many large employers in the country implementing an increasing number of workforce nutrition programmes, including a growing number of breastfeeding in the workplace programmes. The country recognizes the important role to that workforce nutrition brings to building a healthy families, workforces and…
