Nutrition Commitments Registered in the Nutrition Accountability Framework for the N4G Paris 2025 Summit
The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MEAE) executed a hugely successful Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit in Paris, raising over US$27 billion to end malnutrition.1 The event emphasised the urgent need for collective action to address malnutrition in all its forms. The lives and livelihoods of millions of people depend on sustained efforts and holding ourselves accountable for commitments made.
Emmanuel Macron, President of France, giving his speech at the N4G Paris 2025 Summit.
The Global Nutrition Report (GNR) was honoured to partner so collaboratively with France as the N4G hosts. With the data entrusted to us by those who registered their commitments in the Nutrition Accountability Framework (NAF), the GNR supported the N4G hosts to produce the “pre-Summit” version of the N4G Statement Annex—a compilation of the 403 commitments registered by 127 stakeholders from 66 countries—published on the N4G website.2
"What you have demonstrated by your presence and your commitments says it all: nearly four hundred commitments were made on the [NAF] platform, and tonight, more than $27 billion will be mobilised around these commitments,” said Emmanuel Macron, President of France, in a speech for the Summit.
On Tuesday, 25 March, the eve of the Summit, the GNR hosted an official side event on "Protecting the Ethos of Accountability in a Changing Environment" at the Civil Society Pavilion. Dr Shibani Ghosh and Dr Giacomo Zanello, Co-chairs of the GNR’s Independent Expert Group, moderated a panel on which Save the Children, Scaling Up Nutrition Ethiopia and the World Bank reflected on the evolving challenges and critical importance of accountability amidst shifting dynamics in development. The session:
- Highlighted the importance of nutrition accountability.
- Facilitated a multistakeholder dialogue on approaches to accountability.
- Advocated for sustained investment in accountability mechanisms.
Read our blog about the side event or watch it online, starting at 6 hours, 45 minutes.
Lawrence Haddad, founding chair and the first lead author of the GNR, congratulated the Summit organisers and commitment makers and noted that, given funding cuts, the financial commitments compared to those of 2021 were impressive. “The Summit is a rallying cry to the troops and a call to all to go the extra mile for nutrition, a call that many heeded in Paris,” he said.
Shawn Baker, former Co-chair of the GNR’s Stakeholder Group, shared the importance of global mobilisation for nutrition, honoured the finesse of the Summit’s Special Envoy, and spoke to the GNR’s role in a poem about the Summit.
At the CSO Pavilion, N4D spoke with Dr Zanello and Carrie Hubbell Melgarejo, GNR Programme Director, on The Politics of Ending Malnutrition – Challenging Conversations with Decision Makers” podcast about the GNR’s role and how the GNR would define “success” at the Summit. The Summit clearly met those expectations.
- At the time of the Summit, $27 billion had been raised, a number which was then updated to $30.5 billion by the time we published the final N4G statement annex. Given inflation, this is similar to the financial commitments made for the previous N4G Tokyo 2021 Summit, remarkable given the current political economy situation.
- As of 30 September 2025, 171 commitment makers from 82 countries have registered 586 new commitments in the NAF Commitment Tracker for the N4G Paris 2025 Summit.