Affiliated Parallel Session at the Pre-Summit of the United Nations Food Systems Summit
“Access to nutrition through the workplace: leveraging the private sector for game-changing advances in combatting global malnutrition”
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Watch a recording of this important session here
This UN Foods Systems Pre-Summit Affiliated Session hosted by the Government of Bangladesh Ministry of Labour and Employment and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) brings together leaders from government, civil society, the private sector and non-governmental organisations to explore the important role that workforce nutrition programmes are playing in addressing global malnutrition, and ways in which these can be scaled up for increased impact. It alsos highlight the important need for increased private sector nutrition commitments to be made at the Food Systems Summit and Nutrition for Growth Summit.
Key participants included:
- The Honourable Secretary K M Abdus Salam, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of Bangladesh
- Gerda Verburg, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, Coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement, UNFSS Advisory Committee
- Wai-Chan Chan, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum
- Sunny Verghese, WBCSD Chair, Co-Founder and Group CEO of Olam International Ltd.
- Debrorah Ash, Senior Technical Advisor, Alive & Thrive
- Alette van Leur, Director of the Sectoral Policies Department, ILO
- Anjalli Ravi Kumar, Global Sustainabilty Director – Health & Wellbeing, Unilever
Read all about the outputs from this event here.
This event was supported by the Workforce Nutrition Alliance. The Workforce Nutrition Alliance was launched by The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) in October 2019. The Alliance works to bring access to and knowledge about healthy nutrition to +3 million employees in member organisations and supply chains by 2025.
Learn more at www.WorkforceNutrition.org.