Strengthening Communities to Address Malnutrition

Malnutrition – consisting of undernutrition, overweight and obesity – affects millions of individuals, particularly in low and middle-income countries. Multisectoral partnerships play a transformative role in tackling malnutrition in all its forms. This session will focus on a series of collaborative partnerships that bring together the unique strengths of both the public and private sectors to collectively strengthen the malnutrition response at the community level.

Participating partners in this session will discuss community-level malnutrition work involving the Real Madrid Foundation, the Self-Employed Women's Association in India, the Kenya Medical Research Institute, and the Abbott Center for Malnutrition Solutions. Partners will describe the challenges faced in addressing malnutrition and the powerful role that collaboration and sustainable innovation, aligned with national and global priorities, play in improving outcomes for the most vulnerable.