Latest News Celebrating International Women’s Day 2023 7th March, 2023 Scaling Up Nutrition Business Network (SBN) celebrates 10 years of engaging with the private sector to improve nutrition 19th January, 2023 Helen Weldemichael emerges winner of the Global EatSafe Innovation Challenge 21st October, 2022 Empowering Private Sector Partnerships for Scaling Up Nutrition | Formation of SBN Sri Lanka Steering Committee 2024 – 2026 22nd April, 2024 Celebrating the impact of Women inclusion in nutrition activities – IWD 2024 25th March, 2024 Supporting Entrepreneurs to Adopt Scalable Techniques to Improve Nutrition for Low-income Consumers 25th March, 2024 Appointment of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Government Focal Point – Sri Lanka 4th March, 2024 Step Out and Innovate! World Creativity and Innovation Day 2023 6th July, 2023 Reflections from AU High Level Dialogue on Nutrition Financing 2023 15th May, 2023 A National Benchmarking Pilot for Food Systems Actors in LMIC – Bangladesh 8th May, 2023 Share on Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp 19Sep Nutrition Business Monitor: A new self-assessment tool for SMEs This article was originally published by the Access to Nutrition Initiative. Together with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and the Access to Nutrition Initiative (ATNI), the SUN Business Network has started to develop a voluntary self-assessment tool for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to review where they stand in terms of nutritional policies and practices. The SUN Business Network and ATNI believe that SMEs have an important role to play in making nutritious food accessible and affordable to consumers. The tool will be piloted in both Nigeria and Bangladesh across the next 3 years. With the tool, businesses will be able to assess their performance in increasing the availability and affordability of food and beverage products with high nutritional quality. An online platform will be used for data collection to automate recommendations, generate a scoring and inform companies on how to improve their performances on nutrition to the benefit of consumers at a country level. Along with piloting the tool, various elements of capacity building are incorporated into the project for the companies who decide to participate. The project started with country visits, where ATNI was able to do stakeholder consultations, and in turn understand the business environment for SMEs in the food and beverage sector in both Nigeria and Bangladesh, as well Participants from CSOs and Government representatives who attended ATNI’s roundtable as identify companies that are interested in participating in the pilot phase of the tool. In June 2019, ATNI held roundtables with CSOs, policymakers, and companies in Nigeria and in August 2019, ATNI repeated the same roundtables in Bangladesh. The roundtables were co-organised by GAIN and the local SBN networks. ATNI is aiming to develop the tool by the end of 2019 and start the pilot phase in January 2020. If you are interested in learning more about the project, please contact ATNI’s programme coordinator Efi Chatzinikolaou (efi.chatzinikolaou@accesstonutrition.org). Find out more about the SUN Business Networks in Bangladesh and Nigeria.
