The Power of Nutrition

Who we are

The Power of Nutrition’s vision is a world where every child has the right nutrition to achieve their full potential. Our purpose is to raise money and create partnerships to advance the fight against malnutrition in Africa and Asia.

At the end of last year (2022), we achieved our headline target to help prevent more than 600,000 cases of stunting (a sign of chronic malnutrition – where a child is too short for their age), several years early. We did this through securing funding and overseeing 21 large-scale nutrition programmes in 16 countries.

Since being established in 2015, we have:

•         Reached more than 133 million of the world’s most vulnerable people with nutrition interventions, 300% more than our original target.

•         Averted with our partners over 600,000 cases of stunting, two years ahead of target.

•         Mobilised more than $643million for nutrition programming through our unique co-investment model and effective fundraising.

•         Spent just 3 cents to generate the next $1 for nutrition programmes.

Malnutrition is the underlying cause of 45% of all child mortality. In Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, nearly 4 in 10 children are growing up with stunted bodies and brains – and malnutrition levels are on the rise due to covid, conflict and climate change. Putting a stop to malnutrition is one of the best means we have to transform children’s health, education and livelihoods, in turn helping communities and countries escape the cycle of poverty. Yet, it’s chronically underfunded over overlooked, receiving less than 1% of national government budgets.

The Power of Nutrition is a unique partnership platform that brings together organisations to help address the huge funding gap and run best-practice nutrition programmes at scale. We convene investors such as the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, UBS Optimus Foundation and Unilever and donor governments including the UK, Sweden, Ireland and Australia; as well as implementing partners including The World Bank, UNICEF, World Food Programme and a range of international NGOs.

This is an exciting time to join The Power of Nutrition within the Partnerships and Brands team to help deliver our new Strategy for 2022-5 – Transforming global nutrition financing, together. We are an organisation that has been through a period of transition (and our model has evolved) and we are extremely ambitious for growth – to reach those who need our support the most.