Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition GLOPAN
The Global Panel is an independent group of influential experts with a commitment to tackling global challenges in food and nutrition security. We aim to provide effective guidance to decision-makers, particularly governments, on generating nutrition-enhancing agricultural and food policy investment in low and middle-income countries.Read more: http://www.glopan.org/
African Capacity Building Foundation
The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), is the African Union’s Specialized Agency for Capacity Development. The ACBF`s vision is an Africa Capable of Achieving Its Own Development. The ACBF works to build strategic partnerships, extend grants, offer technical support and provide access to relevant knowledge related to capacity building in Africa.Read more:https://www.acbf-pact.org/
African Nutrition Society
Established in 2008, the African Nutrition Society (ANS) is a registered scientific professional body, a learned society formed by nutritional scientists, food scientists and other health professionals working in, and with an interest in the nutrition agenda for Africa. ANS was established as an umbrella organization among others, to develop...
African Leaders for Nutrition(ALN)
African leaders made a landmark commitment in 2018, to remove nutrition-related barriers that prevent children and societies from realising their full potential. The leaders made the commitments at the launch of African Leaders for Nutrition (ALN) − an initiative championed by the African Development Bank and the African Union Commission – in Addis Ababa, where they...
Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) is a broad alliance of different civil society actors that are part of the struggle for food sovereignty and agroecology in Africa. These include: African farmers’ organizations, African NGO networks, specialist African NGOs, consumer movements in Africa, international organizations which support the...
The Sustainable Development Goals Center for Africa(SDGC/A
The SDGC/A is an international organization that supports governments, civil society, businesses and academic institutions in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Africa. Following the signing-off of the historic agreement on sustainable development during the UN General Assembly in September 2015, African leaders decided to take quick and firm...
2022 as the Year of Nutrition
Aspiration one (1) of the Agenda 2063 envisions a prosperous Africa based on inclusive growth and sustainable development with goal three (3) highlighting the importance of healthy and well-nourished citizens. Agenda 2063 further recognises human capital development as critical to delivering the African Union’s vision of an integrated, prosperous and...
Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA)
IMMANA
aims to accelerate the development of a robust scientific evidence base needed
to guide changes in global agriculture and food systems to feed the world’s
population in a way that is both healthy and sustainable. It consists of three
interrelated workstreams:
• Competitive Research Grants to Develop Innovative Methods...
The Regional Network of Agricultural Policy Research Institutes (ReNAPRI)
The Regional Network of Agricultural Policy Research
Institutes (ReNAPRI) is a regionally coordinated group of national agricultural
policy research institutes duly established and operating in the Eastern and
Southern Africa (ESA) region. ReNAPRI was formed to respond to the policy
research coordination gap in the ESA region.Read More: https://www.renapri.org
Committee on World Food Security CFS
The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) is the foremost inclusive international and intergovernmental platform for all stakeholders to work together to ensure food security and nutrition for all. The Committee reports to the UN General Assembly through the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and to FAO Conference. Using a multi-stakeholder, inclusive...
Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN)
The Scaling Up
Nutrition (SUN) Movement is a renewed effort to eliminate all forms of
malnutrition, based on the principle that everyone has a right to food and good
nutrition. It is not a fund, an institution or an agency, rather the Movement
is strengthening political commitments and accountability for...
Future Africa Forum
The Forum seeks to increase the participation of young Africans in building the future of Africa. It is a non-partisan convening of young African leaders to develop policies and solutions for the challenges our continent is currently facing. The aim is to create a platform for inter-generational dialogue in Africa.The Forum brings together...
Global Open Data on Agriculture and Nutrition GODAN
The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition initiative is a voluntary association that was launched in October 2013. The initiative seeks to support global efforts to make agricultural and nutritionally relevant data available, accessible, and usable for unrestricted use worldwide. It focuses on building high-level policy and public and private...
The African Academy of Sciences (The AAS)
The African Academy of Sciences (The AAS) is a non-aligned, non-political, not-for-profit pan-African organisation whose vision is to see transformed lives on the African continent through science.Read more: https://www.aasciences.africa/
AKADEMIYA2063
The
main goal of AKADEMIYA2063 is to help meet the needs of African countries in
terms of data, analytics and mutual learning for the effective implementation
of Agenda 2063 and the realization of its outcomes by a critical mass of member
states. AKADEMIYA2063 supports evidence-based agricultural policymaking in
Africa through...