The SUN Business Network (SBN) aims to increase the availability and affordability of safe, nutritious foods to consumers, especially low-income consumers through activities at global and national levels. At a national level, the SBN convenes businesses, assesses technical, financial and other business support service needs for members, and advocates the role of business in addressing nutrition at country level. Read More
The SUN Business Network (SBN) aims to increase the availability and affordability of safe, nutritious foods to consumers, especially low-income consumers through activities at global and national levels. At a national level, the SBN convenes businesses, assesses technical, financial and other business support service needs for members, and advocates the role of business in addressing nutrition at country level. At a global level, the SBN acts as a focal point for engaging multinational businesses in nutrition activities such as making workplace nutrition commitments.Read More
The SUN Business Network (SBN) aims to increase the availability and affordability of safe, nutritious foods to consumers, especially low-income consumers through activities at global and national levels. At a national level, the SBN convenes businesses, assesses technical, financial and other business support service needs for members, and advocates the role of business in addressing nutrition at country level.Read More
Emerging networks are in SUN Countries where the government has made a commitment to ending malnutrition through a multi-stakeholder approach and private sector companies have begun to mobilise their support for a multistakeholder, multisectoral approach to improving nutrition. Read More
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The national SUN Pitch competition is a flagship initiative of SBN to provide an avenue to highlight scalable, innovative ideas that have the potential to contribute to addressing malnutrition. In Nigeria, the SBN team organised, with support from FATE Foundation, their own national pitch competition –theNutriPitch competition. The 2021 NutriPitch competition, with the theme ‘Improved Access to Safe, Nutritious Food’, aimed to provide dedicated and targeted support to early-stage high-potential and growth-driven businesses in food safety &nutrition through entrepreneurship education and support, mentorship and access to financing arrangements over a given period of time.
UduakIgbeka of SBN and Africa Regional Manager, GAIN, explained that 10 entrepreneurs were shortlisted for the 2021 NutriPitch competition which focused on promoting nutrition and scaling businesses in the nutrition sector. The shortlisted entrepreneurs who had recently participated in the FATE Foundation Orange Corners accelerator program, benefitted from an additional a two-day nutrition focused ‘bootcamp’ and business pitch training, to prepare them for the NutriPitch competition.
From the Orange Corners Nigeria programme in the key areas of food design, post-harvest loss reduction, market connectivity and food safety
To train finalists on nutrition impact and financial literacy, and prepare them to pitch their enterprise to the judges
NutriPitch Challenge to determine the five winners of the 2021 NutriPitch competition
Completion and award presentation of prizes to five winners
FATE Graduation Ceremony at which entrepreneurs will join other FATE entrepreneurs to receive their certificates: scheduled for December 3, 2021
The NutriPitch competition determined the five winners of cash and equipment financing, which was distributed as follows:
Cash prize
Equipment financing
In hosting the NutriPitch competition and bootcamp training sessions, SBN Nigeria partnered with FATE Foundation and the Orange Corners accelerator programme – a programme funded by the Netherlands Government to support entrepreneurship in Africa and the Middle East.
The NutriPitch competition was held on June 30, 2021 at Radisson Blu, Ikeja Lagos. The event featured ten entrepreneurs in the food and nutrition sector and three judges (Dr. Adeyinka Onabolu; Senior Advisor on Food Security & Nutrition GAIN, John-Paul Iwuoha; CEO & Visionary-In-Chief, SmallStarter Africa, and AdebukolaOladapo; Associate Director, KPMG.
The businesses were assessed under the following parameters:
