As part of country preparations for the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit in Paris on 27-28 March, FIAP has supported two national workshops, one in Eswatini and one in Lesotho. Eswatini and Lesotho are part of the group of sixteen SUN Movement countries in Anglophone Africa that have received technical assistance from FIAP since last year in the framework of the EU4SUN project, joining the Latin American and Caribbean partner countries. In this way, FIAP has broadened its scope of action in its capacity building work on food security and nutrition.

In Eswatini, the workshop served as a space for validation, ensuring accuracy, consistency and agreement by all stakeholders on the content of the commitments. Key issues such as increasing exclusive breastfeeding rates and reducing malnutrition in women of childbearing age, children under five and adolescent girls were on the agenda of the workshop.

In Lesotho, the workshop aimed to formulate and validate commitments. The actors involved have prioritised issues such as improving nutrition indicators, with an emphasis on combating stunting, anaemia and obesity in different demographic groups. This has been accompanied by clear legislative and budgetary objectives.

Both countries have benefited from the participation of various key actors in the field of nutrition, including government officials, non-governmental organisations, international organisations, universities and specialists. These workshops have enabled countries to make clear and bold commitments that will be presented at the N4G Summit, a key opportunity to strengthen and mobilise partnerships to advance the implementation of these commitments and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.