Micronutrient Forum

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“THE MICRONUTRIENT FORUM (THE FORUM) SERVES AS A BACKBONE ORGANIZATION BY SUPPORTING PARTNERS AND FOSTERING ALIGNMENT AND COLLECTIVE ACTION ON MICRONUTRIENT-RELEVANT ISSUES FOR ALL ASPECTS OF HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION. THE 2022-2025 STRATEGY IS AN EXTENSION OF THE EXISTING WORK OF THE FORUM, BUILDING ON THE ORGANIZATION'S CAPABILITIES AS A MICRONUTRIENT TECHNICAL RESOURCE, CONVENOR, KNOWLEDGE BROKER, AND ADVOCATE. Over the past three years, the Forum has delivered unique value to the nutrition community by developing collaboration platforms to address pressing topical issues (Standing Together for Nutrition), responding to the needs of partners for greater collaboration on specific topics (Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies), and by addressing longstanding issues (Biochemical Status Coalition). The ability to bring key stakeholders together, create alignment, and drive action on challenging micronutrient malnutrition issues is acknowledged by partners and funders as fundamental to achieving impact. In addition, the Forum observed demand for evidence-based advocacy on micronutrients in general and on women's nutrition specifically, and the need for greater connection between the global and national levels.”

“The healthy mothers healthy babies consortium (hmhb) aims to improve maternal nutrition by accelerating the adoption of multiple micronutrient supplements (mms) while supporting advocacy for better nutritional status of the mother and healthy pregnancy outcomes across low- and middle-income countries (lmic). Hmhb's advocacy agenda reached new audiences with over 30 international and national expert-led briefings. Since the launch, hmhb's membership has grown to include over 90 individuals and organizations worldwide, who have collectively worked to advance a compelling and evidence-driven new agenda on the transformative potential of mms for pregnant women. Throughout the nutrition year of action, hmhb actively engaged with strategic partners to virtually convene experts and practitioners to build awareness and a deeper understanding of maternal nutrition and mms issues. Hmhb curated and synthesized relevant evidence-based knowledge and information on maternal nutrition and mms and developed a range of resources tailored to a broad range of stakeholders. - knowledge hub: a one-stop shop repository of new and existing information on maternal nutrition and mms with over 100 resources including scientific articles, reports, tools, case studies, policy briefs, and videos. - knowledge bytes: a special series of 11 short films (6-8 minutes) that feature global experts explaining specific questions related to maternal nutrition and mms to make this information more readily accessible to a broader audience. - world map on mms: an inventory of mms-related activities amongst hmhb partners, led to the development of an interactive map depicting stakeholder activities related to mms, such as impact studies, implementation research, demonstration pilots, cost-benefit analyses and scaling up activities.”

“The standing together for nutrition consortium (st4n) was established in response to the covid-19 pandemic. St4n worked to address pressing concerns of the global nutrition community alarmed by the rapidly unfolding crisis that threatened millions of mothers and children facing disrupted health and food systems across lmic contexts. St4n drives partnerships by convening expert working groups to develop policy-related evidence and supporting advocacy partners to drive evidence-based policy actions. During the 2021 year of action for nutrition, st4n brought the scientific and academic community together to speak with one voice on the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on nutrition. St4n developed an innovative analysis that modeled the impact of covid-19 on nutrition outcomes for women and children. This research, published in nature food, and titled, "the covid-19 crisis will exacerbate maternal and child undernutrition and child mortality in low- and middle-income countries", was accessed over 20,000 times and cited 20 times. St4n also published an estimate of the impact on the affordability of healthy diets in nature foods, titled "covid-19 pandemic leads to greater depth of unaffordability of healthy and nutrient-adequate diets in low- and middle-income countries." st4n's advocacy and knowledge-sharing work generated a strong media presence, with coverage from global outlets, including bloomberg tv. St4n leveraged global moments to effectively advocate for the inclusion of nutrition in covid-19 recovery funding and policies through tools such as a policy brief and a social media kit. St4n presented at five market-specific events, including a us briefing to congressional staff, a uk parliamentary briefing, a canadian advocacy event with results canada, and a bmgf policy and advocacy staff meeting. St4n represented and led outreach to the academic sector in the run-up to the tokyo nutrition for growth summit and co-hosted a covid-19-focused implementation conference in south asia. Global agencies, funders, governments, and csos consistently cited data from st4n's working groups as rationale for their nutrition advocacy, investments, policies, and programs. St4n is highly sought after for its expertise, and st4n-related speakers appeared in over 14 webinars or events.”

“The forum made material progress in promoting dialogue and collective action to support micronutrient health in 2021. The forum provided technical assistance to the institute of health metrics and evaluation (ihme) and increased efforts to drive the global adoption of multiple micronutrient supplementation (mms) for pregnant women. Women's nutrition emerged as a central theme in 2021, notably anemia in women. The forum drove new insights on micronutrient data in 2021: - publishing a scientific article in current developments in nutrition with co-authors from ihme and the university of california, davis department of nutrition that describes the challenges of estimating the prevalence and related burden of disease, including a review of ihmes methodology, as a case study. A short communication paper provided insights on the differences in the disease burden estimates due to vitamin a and zinc deficiency between the gbd study, 2017 and 2019. - convened and chaired the advisory panel for a usaid-advancing nutrition initiative to update the global estimates of the prevalence of micronutrient deficiency. Such technical assistance on behalf of the community exemplifies the forum's priorities to strengthen global micronutrient data systems. - examined, in coordination with the international zinc consultative group, blockers andenablers for including micronutrient biomarkers in national surveys to support more robust national surveys in an lmic setting. - developed a strategic plan based on the insights of an independent expert group that systemically identifies gaps in the data generation value chain and proposes actionable solutions. The extensive report was summarized and published in the american journal of clinical nutrition.”

“The consortium embraced a common agenda to estimate the risks to vulnerable communities unable to access essential health and nutrition services and facing rising food insecurity. St4n disseminated much-needed evidence on the projected impacts of the covid-19 pandemic on global malnutrition levels through a publication in nature foods. The publication was widely circulated through social media and media outlets, like the bbc, and presented at numerous global events. This evidence helped empower policymakers to commit millions of dollars of investments at the n4g summit. The forum launched a micronutrient data innovation alliance (dina), with support from the bill & melinda gates foundation, to align organizations involved in collecting and using micronutrient data. The alliance will support national-level decision-makers to better design, implement, measure, and optimize micronutrient programs, resulting in more efficient and effective programming.”

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