About

The Workforce Nutrition Alliance

Good nutrition is a key driver for both healthy lives and healthy business. Yet worldwide, one in three people suffer from malnutrition, impacting individuals, businesses and economies alike.

The Workforce Nutrition Alliance was launched in October 2019 by the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) to help employers ensure their employees have access to and knowledge about healthy nutrition, breastfeeding support and nutrition-focused health checks. The Workforce Nutrition Alliance’s aim is to support employers to adopt and expand healthier workforce nutrition programmes. We are proud to have reached 6 million workers through advocacy and technical support, and we are working towards 10 million by 2030.

We make this impact by focusing on three areas of work.

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Advocate

We advocate for the benefits of workforce nutrition programmes to improve the livelihoods of millions of people worldwide.

Support

We support organisations in assessing their workforce nutrition programme, developing an enhancement plan, and implementing their new programme.

Monitor

We enable monitoring progress in creating successful workforce nutrition programmes that support global nutrition goals.

WHO WE ARE
OUR PILLARS
OUR DONORS

Conveners

The Workforce Nutrition Alliance is convened by The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). The CGF bring their expertise in bringing together retailers and manufacturers that collectively have a reach of 10 million direct employees and indirectly an estimated 90 million workers, while GAIN contributes extensive technical know-how and experience in implementing workforce nutrition programmes across various settings.

Partners

The Workforce Nutrition Alliance connects with a diverse range of partners from the private sector, civil society, government, and knowledge institutes. Together, we work towards improving the nutrition of workers and their communities. Partners strengthen the Alliance by bringing technical expertise on nutrition themes, leveraging member platforms, creating benchmarking mechanisms, and by co-developing our offering for companies willing to invest in nutrition.

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Four themes for enhancing workforce nutrition

We have identified four pillars to excellence in workforce nutrition. All our materials use these pillars as their foundation.

Healthy food at work

Increase access to healthy and safe foods at work by improving meals and snacks or by working with local vendors.

Nutrition education

Support behavior change towards healthier eating habits and lifestyles through increased knowledge on good nutrition.

Nutrition health checks

Provide periodic meetings with health professionals for assessments and guidance for better health.

Breastfeeding support

Create breastfeeding-friendly workplaces and policies that support parental and child health and well-being.

Have a look at the stories from our lighthouse leaders who each excel at one of the workforce nutrition pillars.

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Who funds us?

The Workforce Nutrition Alliance is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The ideas, opinions and comments herein are entirely the responsibility of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent or reflect the policy of the funding organisations.

TEAM

Meet our team

We are comprised of experts from The Consumer Goods Forum’s Health & Wellness team, and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition’s Workforce Nutrition team. Together, this team brings together a diverse range of skills and expertise to help guide employers to design and implement innovative workforce nutrition programmes.