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  • SCHOOL

    Guide to Business

    Engagement

  • 1

    What is the purpose of the guide?The Guide to Business Engagement has been requested by SUN countries to help inform the development of local

    Drawing on a wide range of insights and experiences, the guide aims to:

    Share best practice examples from SUN countries of the wide range of ways that business can contribute to nutrition and examples of multi-stakeholder partnerships

    Summarise the opportunities for governments and civil society organisations to work with business to support local nutrition priorities

    Provide tools to support and inform the development of local business engagement strategies

    Who is the guide for?The intended audience for the guide are SUN Focal Points in countries and

    How to use the guide?The guide can be used as a resource to stimulate ideas and dialogue amongst local SUN teams about the potential role of business in local nutrition plans, in addition to supporting the development of local strategies and programmes

    We would welcome feedback on the guide and suggestions on how we can continue to develop

    from SUN countries in order to produce a revised version at the beginning of 2015, which will also

    Introducing the guide

    Navigating the guideANYWHERE YOU SEE THESE BOXES YOU CAN CLICK ON THEM TO JUMP TO THE START OF THAT SECTION

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    Guide Contents

    1. Agriculture and nutrition 10

    1. Our approach to private sector engagement 26

    13

    2. The SUN Business Network's key principles for building trusting relationships with business 27

    3. Specially formulated food for targeted groups 16

    3. Guidelines for developing a private sector engagement strategy 29

    More resources 33

    4. Workplace 19

    5. Supporting nutrition sensitive interventions 22

    32

    Why engage with business? 31

    How can business contribute to nutrition? 82

    Developing a business engagement strategy 253

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    Section 1Why engage

    with business?

    1.1 All sectors must play a role

    1.2 Business matters to nutrition

    1.3 Nutrition increasingly matters to business

    1.4 The comparative advantage of business in nutrition

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    All sectors must play a role

    SUN Movement Multi-Stakeholder ApproachThe SUN Movement provides the platform to enable stakeholders to work together to define

    roles in support of business engagement goals:

    Movement recognises that combining

    governments have the primary

    policies and encouraging trust and mutual accountability of stakeholders in

    country-owned approach to scaling

    business , development agencies, civil

    National Governments

    appropriate regulatory frameworks

    to the most vulnerable

    DonorsProvide risk sharing support and

    Businesses

    Civil Society

    capacity building, networks and

    delivery channels, advocacy

    LOCAL NUTRITIONAL PRIORITIES

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    1.1

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    Business matters to nutrition

    We know that the market is where most people access most products and services to meet most of their food and dietary

    In its capacity as a supplier, distributor and marketer of

    companies or SMEs, can be the source of many of the

    This is not to suggest that companies and markets can

    services to the poorest of the poor, working with business

    The International Finance Corporation estimates that the 4.5 billion people at the base of the economic pyramid spend $2.3 trillion a year on food and beverages.

    THE LANCET

    "

    JUSTINE GREENING SECRETARY OF STATE, DFID

    " JUSTIN FORSYTH CEO, SAVE THE CHILDREN

    "

    SHRI PRITHVIRAJ CHAVAN HONORABLE CHIEF MINISTER OF

    MAHARASHTRA, INDIA

    "

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    Nutrition increasingly matters to business

    More and more businesses are

    security is intrinsically linked to business growth, performance and

    of a wide spectrum of businesses across

    can be summarised around four drivers that underpin the business case for

    DEVELOPING NEW MARKETS TO INCREASE SALES AND PROFITSAs consumer demand for good nutrition grows, businesses along the food value chain increasingly see opportunities to build new

    More and more companies are building dynamic consumer markets through product, service and business model innovations that lower the cost and increase the availability of

    ACTING RESPONSIBLY AND MAINTAINING LICENSE TO OPERATE Many businesses, especially those more directly linked to the food sector, recognise that access to food and nutrition security is both a moral

    socially responsible helps strengthen corporate

    IMPROVING WORKFORCE AND SUPPLY CHAIN PRODUCTIVITY Businesses increasingly appreciate that good nutrition is an essential foundation of a productive

    nutrition undermines business productivity amongst the direct workforce and along the supply chain, and impacts occupational health

    in workplace nutrition programmes see their investments repaid in a reduction of sick-days and

    ENSURING MORE SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES AND SUPPLY CHAINS It is estimated that 11% of GDP in Africa and Asia is lost to under nutrition every year, with productivity losses to individuals estimated at

    thrive when they operate in healthy communities and see a direct commercial linkage between their contribution to the health and well-being of the communities within which they operate and their

    1.3

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    The comparative advantage of business in nutrition

    Scale: The processes and systems underpinning business

    Businesses have the

    Quality management and food safety systems: Businesses can embed quality management and safety

    Along the

    With its action and output orientated approaches, the business community has the ability to add value along the entire food chain from farm to fork.

    SOURCING

    PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

    MANUFACTURING

    PACKAGING

    DISTRIBUTION

    ADVERTISING & PROMOTION

    RETAIL SALES

    1.4

    1

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    Section 2How can business contribute to nutrition?

    2.3 Specially formulated food for targeted groups

    2.1 Agriculture and nutrition

    2.4 Workplace

    2.2

    2.5 Supporting nutrition sensitive interventions

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    1. Agriculture and nutrition

    At each stage of the food value chain, businesses can provide investment,

    3. Specially formulated foods for targeted groups

    Market based approaches can increase the availability of specially formulated

    2. Large scale food

    5. Supporting nutrition sensitive interventions

    Businesses can play a key role in strengthening underlying health systems, for example providing health and hygiene products and health services, supporting women economic empowerment and

    4. WorkplaceBusinesses across all sectors can educate employees about the importance of

    Businesses can also introduce workplace policies that facilitate access to breast feeding

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    Along the food value chain and in

    and civil society.

    How can business contribute to nutrition?2

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    Agriculture and nutrition The role of business

    countries are strongly linked to local agricultural and food systems. Providing the local

    nutrient requirements requires the agricultural

    and basic cereals. It also requires a food system

    and desirable to local

    farming communities where malnutrition

    encouraging on-

    nutritious foods can have

    under-nutrition.

    To encourage

    reduce food wastage, increase food safety and quality, and

    to be linked more directly to predictable market demand for

    companies along the food value chain can build this market by

    and by helping to create demand for them by improving public

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    2.1

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    Agriculture and nutrition Examples of partnerships with business

    Sweet Potato in Uganda and Mozambique

    Nutrition context / project objective

    Project scope and partner roles

    Impact The project resulted in 61% of households adopting the vitamin A-rich OSP to grow on their

    numbers of children and women over the threshold, ensuring that their daily requirements for

    Vitamin A intake increased by two-thirds for older children and nearly doubled for younger

    Supporting the dairy sector in Bangladesh

    Nutrition context / project objective

    Tetra Pak has worked with a range of development partners and businesses to increase milk

    Project scope and partner roles

    Group to build up the Dairy Hub concept and to educate commercial distributors and consumers

    Impact

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    Agriculture and nutrition How can governments and civil society work with business?

    Governments can draw on a range of policy levers to encourage business investment in and support

    development agencies can

    and support to businesses,

    funding, to help share the risks associated with developing new business

    Supportive national polices for nutritionGovernments can include nutrition goals in national agricultural plans

    that companies involved in national food and agriculture plans will also be encouraged to deliver improved

    Reducing the costs of nutritious inputs (fertiliser, seeds)Governments can provide incentives for businesses to use nutritious inputs by reducing import tariffs and by investing in national research and

    Standards for agricultural technologies and food safetyGovernments can establish clear regulatory frameworks around standards for new agricultural technologies, eg:

    and work with businesses to build the capacity to facilitate required clearance

    Farmer training and aggregation

    development agencies can work with

    Incentivising markets for nutritious foodsGovernments can provide tax and policy incentives for local retail schemes and market development innovations that make nutritious foods more available and affordable

    Strengthening essential infrastructureGovernments can invest alongside businesses to strengthen critical infrastructure to enable farmers to

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    The role of business

    deliver adequate levels of nutrients in

    to reduce ingredient costs through

    and civil society in countries to

    manufacturing: Large, medium and small-

    businesses can re-engineer food processing and manufacturing to integrate vitamin and mineral procurement, storage, mixing, labelling and

    Increasing availability: Businesses can ensure

    with governments and civil society which are

    Businesses can also create

    and reinforce messages around the importance

    resources to build consumer awareness, and

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    Examples of partnerships with business

    vegetable oil in Senegal

    Nutrition context / project objective The gap in vitamin A and iron intake in Senegal reveals a severe public health burden: 46% of

    Project scope and partner roles Several actors have contributed to strengthening the national fortification programme,

    also supports the production, monitoring and quality control, and demand creation of Senegals

    Both government and industry have demonstrated continued commitment to the fortification

    Impact The results indicate that large-scale food fortification is contributing positively to intake and

    population, with over 50% of both rural and poor women consuming at least 10% of their daily

    Fortifying edible oils in India

    Nutrition context / project objective

    and fortifying oil with essential vitamins A ,D and E creates the opportunity to reach all income

    Project scope and partner roles By voluntarily fortifying its edible oil brands, Cargill saw the opportunity to build competitive advantage and brand loyalty through an enhanced value proposition to increasingly health

    Cargill in India re-designed its brands to emphasise fortified oils health benefits, raised consumer awareness of fortified products through marketing and word of mouth campaigns

    Impact

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    2.2

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    Through National Fortification Alliances, governments and civil society can support businesses as they integrate micronutrient fortification in

    standards, monitoring and enforcement

    governments can establish clear regulatory frameworks for food processing, including

    Governments can play this role and also work with businesses to establish public-

    compliance and monitoring processes, including industry quality assurance

    Product formulation requirementsBusinesses need to understand recommended daily vitamin allowances and dosages, and secure regulatory clearance and certification for fortified food products from

    and civil society organisations can advise businesses on appropriate product formulations and technical

    Standards for marketing, including labelling and

    Governments can establish regulatory frameworks for marketing practices, including clear and consistent labelling and certification standards that build consumer confidence in

    Reducing the cost of

    Governments can minimise import

    Data collection and analysisGovernments can work with business,

    to collect and analyse data on food

    Consumer awarenessGovernments can work with businesses to build consumer awareness of the

    key to the long-term sustainability of

    How can governments and civil society

    work with business?

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    Specially formulated foods for targeted groups The role of business

    In countries with the highest

    whole family when mixed in to meals just before serving.

    and are easy to consume.

    Business can increase access to specially formulated foods for targeted groups:

    points including pharmacies, health centres and markets, and maintains availability should subsidised access to specially

    is a partnership in Bangladesh between the Global Alliance for

    company, and BRAC, the worlds largest NGO in the world has

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    Specially formulated foods for targeted groups

    Examples of partnerships with business

    via multiple retail channels in Ivory Coast

    Nutrition context / project objective

    Project scope and partner roles

    Impact

    PKL pricing for individual sachets has led competing brands to lower their prices, making the

    Increasing availability of ready-

    areas of Madagascar

    Nutrition context / project objective

    Project scope and partner roles

    availability through sales ladies selling the product inside the baby restaurants, to grocery stores

    Impact

    grant funding and investment, the business aims to be self sustaining in five years through a

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    The SUN Business Network adheres to international standards and guidelines, including WHO and UNICEF recommendations on optimal infant-feeding practices, the International Code on Breast Milk substitutes and FAO/WHO Codex

    important standards mothers should:

    Introduce complementary feeding as of 6 months of age in a timely and

    Governments and civil society can help businesses to increase access to specially formulated foods for targeted groups:

    Specially formulated foods for targeted groups How can governments and civil society work with business?

    Public distribution

    through government or donor subsidy, or through corporate

    Donors can explore models for subsidising the costs of

    Public private partnershipPublic sector actors can explore partnerships with businesses to expand the reach of products with the middle 40 percent of wealth groups, with the emphasis on reducing

    Community distribution

    informal community networks such as community sales

    Regulatory frameworks and capacity buildingGovernments can establish clear regulatory frameworks

    especially important for providing clarity around the scope for

    Public sector actors can develop targeted mechanisms

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    2.3

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    Workplace The role of business

    and governments are

    a strategic investment with high returns in worker

    backgrounds and health

    working hours may be the

    workers have to eat a

    Employers can adopt a range of policies and programmes to

    Canteens and kitchens:

    Vouchers:

    with companies partnering with community health centers and

    Community Gardens:

    An employer-provided vitamin and mineral

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    Workplace Examples of partnerships with business

    Alive & Thrive: Supporting breastfeeding in the workplace in Vietnam

    Nutrition context / project objective

    Project scope and partner roles The programme is comprised of four distinct steps: the development of behaviour change communication materials on labor policy relating to female workers, maternity policy and

    provided training on breastfeeding for female workers and a hygienic and private space to

    Impact

    Unilever Lamplighter Programme

    Nutrition context / project objective

    Project scope and partner roles

    Impact

    Global successes include:

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    Governments can establish legal and policy frameworks that encourage employers to take more responsibility for supporting nutrition and health in the workplace, which include:

    Maternity/breastfeeding protection lawsGovernments can pass laws that

    are supported and protected from

    Tax incentivesGovernments can incentivise businesses through tax breaks to provide nutritious meal plans, invest in canteen equipment and food, and

    Break timesGovernments can put businesses on an

    message about the importance of

    Nutrition promotion

    programmes, which typically target elementary schools, disadvantaged

    could be extended to also target the

    (Nutritious) meal provisionEmployers should be properly incentivised, or ideally required, to not only provide access to food, but to the proper nutrition for its workforce appropriate to the

    Workplace How can governments and civil society

    work with business?

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    2.4

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    Supporting nutrition sensitive interventions The role of business

    SCHOOL

    A number of wider systemic issues have a

    on these wider health and well-being issues. Businesses can contribute

    Businesses can provide hand-washing soaps, purification tablets, water filters, hygienic latrines and behaviour change education on good hygiene

    Businesses can provide access to affordable health insurance services, and improve access to health information through

    can support data collection and analysis of nutrition and health information, and share

    Women, the main caretakers of their children, tend

    families, resulting in better education, health

    women economic empowerment in their supply chains through access to training, mentoring, financing and markets, and more widely through local community programmes that leverage social

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    2.5

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    Strengthening underlying health systems Examples of partnerships with business

    The Global Public Private Partnership for Handwashing (PPPHW) - partnerships for improved hygiene habits

    Nutrition context / project objective

    Project scope and partner roles The PPPHW secretariat leverages public and private skills, reach and resources to deliver

    Soap companies Unilever, Procter and Gamble, and Colgate Palmolive, bringing state-of-the-art

    Impact PPPHW has increased the number of people washing their hands with soap through research and

    MAMA - Using mobile technology to deliver vital health information to new and expectant mothers in Bangladesh

    Nutrition context / project objective Of every 100 people living in Bangladesh, just 55 have access to sanitation services, while 64 have

    MAMA is a public-private partnership that supports programmes to deliver vital health

    Project scope and partner roles The MAMA Bangladesh programme, Aponjon, is a Voice and SMS based mobile Health Service which provides important twice weekly health messages to pregnant women, new mothers and

    personalised, reliable and accurate messages keeping in alignment with her week of pregnancy or

    social enterprise Dnet, in partnership with the Government of Bangladesh Ministry of Health

    because some of the subscribers are the women themselves, some are husbands and mothers in

    Impact

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    2.5

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    Strengthening underlying health systems How can governments and civil society work with business?

    Governments and civil

    facilitate business support

    Multi-sector strategy Government national nutrition strategies should acknowledge and encourage the key contribution of businesses to improving access to clean water, sanitation and good

    Data collection and analysis Governments should recognise the role that ICT can play in data collection and analysis, consumer education and behaviour change, and actively engage with the ICT sector to leverage their capabilities and

    Enabling economic opportunity for womenGovernments can create a supportive policy environment to encourage women entrepreneurship, and in partnership with businesses, enable greater access to training, mentoring,

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    2.5

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    Section 3Developing a private

    sector engagement strategy

    3.2 The SUN Business Network's key principles for building trusting relationships with business

    3.1 Our approach to private sector engagement

    3.3 Guidelines for developing a private sector engagement strategy

    3.4

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    The SUN Business Network's approach to private sector engagement

    can best be summarised through the below diagram which explains our theory of SUN Business Network's pathway to engaging business in nutrition:

    BY ADDRESSINGTHESE CHALLENGES

    WITH THESE SOLUTIONS

    WE CAN ACHIEVE

    AND DEMONSTRATETHIS IMPACT

    Identify potential entry points in national strategies

    Develop roadmap for action

    Partnerships brokering

    Develop detailed investment plan

    Harmonised messaging to consumers

    Consult with key stakeholdersto build consensus around entry points

    Analysis of how to leverage existing programs/commitments, infrastructure, finance

    Clear policies and strategies on role of private sector in nutrition

    Increased investment from public sector incentivise investment from business

    Increased business investment into nutrition solutions

    Improved consumer education

    Access to nutritious foods

    Awareness of/demand for good nutrition

    Improved nutrition outcomes

    Limited business investment

    No consensus amongst stakeholders about value-add of business

    Few public sector incentivesfor business

    Low consumer education

    Unclear role for business in nutrition strategies

    Business has little awareness of nutrition issues

    Engaging business in national nutrition strategies can lead to improving access and demand for nutritious food, which can help achieve country strategies to improve nutrition.

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    with business

    A wide range of businesses can play a direct role in supporting the goals of national nutrition strategies, from food companies through to the non food

    Engagement with business in the development of national strategies and

    an acknowledgement of the role market-based approaches can play in increasing access to nutritious products and services, and acceptance that

    Governments should recognise the value of private sector contributions, while understanding motives and ensuring the proper incentives and risk-management strategies are in place to ensure sustainable, effective

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    Develop your business engagement strategy with all stakeholders through a transparent and inclusive dialogueIn our experience, all stakeholders should be involved in developing an

    civil society, donors, government and academia, with business, will allow all partners in SUN country platforms to play a role in developing a strategy to

    stages will ensure that you can map existing partnerships and experience

    an open and transparent dialogue with all groups will ensure partners in SUN multi-stakeholder platforms can be included in the development of any

    potential for conflict of interest, please see page 32

    The SUN Business Network's 4 key principles for building trusting

    relationships with business

    for building successful engagement strategies at country level.

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    Identify how business can contribute to country nutrition prioritiesEffectively engaging businesses will require identifying the sectors and industries most

    business engagement strategy can develop in a way that will seek to align business activities in the areas where government requires most support for its national

    help outline where government wants support from business and spark an interest from

    companies, most businesses are not familiar with public policy debates or government

    Many businesses have informed SUN Business Network that would like to have more

    Identify business leaders to be champions of SUN Securing senior leadership engagement is key to

    reaching out to other business and civil society leaders to

    The SUN Business Network's 4 key principles for building trusting relationships with business

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    suggested guidelines for

    engagement strategy alongside

    engagement to achieve local

    outreach to discuss and

    Guidelines for developing a private sector engagement strategy

    Step 1: Review national nutrition prioritiesConduct landscape analysis of key strategy

    these documents business investment is

    Step 2: Assess private sector investment landscapeAssess key ongoing investments, either from public donors which implicate business or direct commercial investment,

    Conduct interviews with key stakeholders from business and stakeholder groups

    Step 3: Report on opportunities to engage with business

    are relevant for business and highlight key

    in partnership with business and which

    Step 4: Multi-stakeholder conveningEngage government focal points to validate first opportunity report and topline recommendations, then convene a cross section of government ministries, bilateral and multilateral donors, local and multinational businesses and civil society organisations to build wider consensus and awareness of the priorities agreed with government

    Step 5: Detailed Roadmaps

    stakeholder convening, appoint lead

    to strengthen ongoing investments, key policies, infrastructure, technical and

    and gaps if mechanisms do not exist, and

    If necessary, develop more detailed investment blueprints which analyse key

    Step 6: Partnership brokering, technical

    Engage government, key donors and social investors throughout the process to ensure alignment between Roadmap

    recommended programs can be aligned

    assistance mechanisms conducted during the Roadmap development process, select mechanisms in-country which can provide

    partnerships and business investment, or build new mechanisms if appropriate ones

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    Step 1: Review national nutrition priorities

    Step 2: Assess private sector investment landscape

    Step 3: Report on opportunities to engage with business

    and implementation plans encompass a range of actions to tackle malnutrition including agriculture-related nutrition interventions and a focus on

    Step 4: Multi-stakeholder convening

    commitment, both from the President and Prime Minister to the NNS and stated that society and business

    Growth in this sector is not having the desired impact

    Business to play its part in consumer behaviour

    partners from Donor, UN and Civil Society networks included:

    The need for donors, CSOs and businesses

    The role for mobile technology in consumer behaviour change due to the increasing reach of

    and sharing new programme and partnership

    can be replicated in other Grow Africa Countries

    Point outlined plans for three working groups to take the next steps to integrate business into the NNS:

    supplements

    Engagement in action: Tanzanias approach to developing a private sector strategy

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    Engagement in action: Tanzanias approach to developing

    a private sector strategy

    Step 5: Detailed roadmaps

    Integrating nutrition in to investments in agriculture through the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor

    The Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of

    development partners has been established to catalyse private investment to deliver rapid and sustainable agricultural growth to improve food

    In recognition of the strong linkages between agriculture and nutrition, the High Level Steering Committee on Nutrition and SAGCOT platforms have come together to identify opportunities to incorporate nutrition interventions in to ongoing

    Through the SAGCOT initiative, rural farming

    of support from government and businesses, including seeds, fertiliser and training, and are also participating in projects which give them

    delivery infrastructure already in place significant opportunities have been identified to overlay a

    A detailed roadmap produced by local stakeholders

    Helping workers in agricultural supply chains to

    The SAGCOT partnership is now asking investors

    of these investments include improving the

    A strong monitoring and evaluation system is also being established, in combination with a comprehensive research agenda, to establish the

    It is hoped that the initiative will provide models for investment in agriculture and nutrition which

    Step 6: Partnership brokering, technical assistance and

    The roadmap will be launched in December 2014 and will be used to guide all partners within the SUN country

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    has emphasised that the strength of

    stakeholders working through these

    impact in the countries that have joined

    private sector, a lack of familiarity of

    in government and civil society can also

    Global Social Observatory on behalf of the SUN Movement has produced a reference guide and toolkit to assist

    materials lay out the key elements of

    when they do arise, managing them in

    policies and procedures for the

    are an integral part of good governance

    SUN Movement at the country or global

    The SUN Movement Strategy 2012

    2012 outline a number of Principles of

    stakeholders should engage in the

    behaviours and mutual accountability

    requirement that those who engage in the Movement avoid behaving and

    SUN Principles of Engagement

    serve as the ten SUN Principles of Engagement for the SUN Movements guidance

    1BE TRANSPARENT, ESPECIALLY ABOUT INTENTIONS AND

    IMPACT

    2BE INCLUSIVE

    3BE RIGHTS-BASED

    4BE WILLING TO

    NEGOTIATE

    5BE PREDICTABLE AND MUTUALLY ACCOUNTABLE

    6BE COST-

    EFFECTIVE

    7BE CONTINUOUSLY COMMUNICATIVE

    Additional principles:

    8ACT WITH

    INTEGRITY AND IN AN ETHICAL MANNER THAT ENHANCES THE

    REPUTATION AND IMPACT OF THE

    SUN MOVEMENT

    9BE MUTUALLY

    RESPECTFUL AND SEEK TO EARN THE TRUST OF THOSE WITH WHOM YOU

    ARE WORKING

    10DO NO HARM

    The Global Social Observatory has developed a detailed model for the

    Further details can be found here:

    HTTP://SCALINGUPNUTRITION.ORG/WP-CONTENT/UPLOADS/2013/02/REFERENCE-NOTE-FINAL-0314.PDF

    HTTP://SCALINGUPNUTRITION.ORG/WP-CONTENT/UPLOADS/2013/02/TOOLKIT-FINAL-0314.PDF

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    3.4

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    two goals:

    the SUN Business Network will support SUN countries to develop their own

    Contact usPlease visit www.sunbusinessnetwork.org

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