Scaling Up Nutrition in Mozambique: UK’s DFID funding to GAIN to support the development of the SUN Business Network

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Scaling Up Nutrition in Mozambique: UK’s DFID funding to GAIN to support the development of the SUN Business Network

7:47 CAT | 22 Dec 2016

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The United Kingdom and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) have signed an agreement in Maputo to finance a GBP 7.7 million [around US$9.5 million] program to catalyse private sector participation in Scaling Up Nutrition in Mozambique.

The grant agreement will support GAIN Mozambique to develop the SUN Business Network into a pioneering multi-sectoral platform to galvanise and mobilise the private sector to invest in improved nutrition in Mozambique.

This initiative will support the Government of Mozambique’s ambitions outlined in the PAMRDC (2011-2020) to reduce chronic malnutrition through the growth of a sustainable market for nutritious affordable foods for all. This support will create opportunities for the private sector to engage in nutrition through the development of the SBN platform, as well providing advice/services to private sector companies who wish to improve nutrition in the workplace. It will be the first national SBN from the existing 13 to feature an investment fund to mobilise private sector action in the development and provision of affordable nutrition related products and services. The SBN is one component of the Mozambican led response to end malnutrition. Mozambique joined the SUN movement in August 2011 and launched the Sun Business Network in February 2016.

Malnutrition rates in children under five remains alarmingly high in Mozambique, at 44%, where one third of the population is chronically food-insecure, and the average life expectancy is only 50. Nearly 30% of the population has a staple-based diet with limited access to a diversity of foods that are able to provide a full range of nutrients, including micronutrients needed for optimal health, and physical and mental development.

Source: The Department for International Development (DFID)