Mobilising Action for Nutrition Now
Nutrition Dialogues bring together diverse stakeholders to facilitate meaningful discussion, and exploration of the most urgent and powerful ways to improve nutrition for all.
Much remains to be done to achieve the global nutrition targets of the Sustainable Development Goals. 2025 was a significant year for nutrition: the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025) was extended to 2030, the World Health Organization renewed and extended its global nutrition targets and the Nutrition for Growth Summit (N4G) took place in Paris in March 2025. Together, these represented a critical opportunity for mobilizing more ambitious and concerted action by governments, donors and civil society.
The groups of people who are most at risk of being malnourished are seldom included in local, national or global discussions about which actions have the greatest impact on women’s and children’s nutrition. Therefore, World Vision International (WVI) and 4SD Foundation launched in 2024 – ahead of the major nutrition milestones of 2025 – the Nutrition Dialogues initiative to ensure that the voices of those at risk are heard by persons with the power to respond.
The purpose of the Nutrition Dialogues is to increase focus on the challenges of ensuring the good nutrition of women and children in low-income settings, and to elicit their views as well as perspectives of diverse stakeholders on ways to improve this situation, as well as encourage more ambitious, effective and accountable action.
About the Nutrition Dialogues Programme
The Nutrition Dialogues programme is open to anyone who wishes to contribute to the global discourse on people’s nutrition by convening a facilitated dialogue. The Nutrition Dialogues approach fosters open and honest discussion and embraces diverse perspectives that inspire novel ideas and innovative ways of working. A particular objective of phase 1 of the programme was to elevate voices for the Paris Nutrition for Growth Summit in 2025.
Participants of Nutrition Dialogues focus on their ‘lived experience of being nourished’ and express their views on ’how to reduce levels of malnutrition among women and children in their community’. They explore priorities for how to improve nutrition outcomes in their localities. Nutrition Dialogues encourage all nutrition stakeholders to be far more ambitious, effective and accountable. The Nutrition Dialogues programme seeks to engage all major groups of nutrition stakeholders, with a particular focus on women, and children and young people.
Building on strong momentum of the first phase, the programme continues promoting inclusive, action-oriented dialogues at local, national, and global levels. The focus of the second phase is on strengthening accountability, accelerating action, and deepening impact on nutrition outcomes following the N4G Summit.
