By the end of 2025, SBN will recruit over 3,000 small and medium enterprises across Africa, Asia and Latin America

SBN pledges

By the end of 2025, the SBN will:

• Recruit over 3000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) across Africa, Asia and Latin America.

This target has been set to increase the ability of national networks, and of SBN globally, to influence the enabling environment for businesses whose activities support access to healthy, nutritious food. This objective is balanced by the need to recruit relevant members that share SBN's vision and mission as well as to ensure that national SBNs include active members.

• Engage SMEs to sign the Nutrition for Growth Responsible Business Pledge for Better Nutrition as an opportunity to:

o Raise awareness of SMEs’ capacity and interest to provide more nutritious food.

o Convey the complementary roles of multinational companies and SMEs in improving food systems.

o Build SMEs’ capacity to design and implement long-term commitments for nutrition.

• Support 3000 SMEs in building their capacity to provide safe nutritious food in partnership with other stakeholder groups, including government, civil society, etc. This target will support multi-stakeholder action to impact both the capacity of SMEs and the enabling environment in which they operate for better nutrition. This approach addresses the need for nutrition-sensitive regulations whilst looking at building the capacity of SMEs to comply with existing and upcoming regulations.

• Each national SBN will pledge to design a national sustainable action plan by a set date, considering options for long-term engagement of the local private sector (especially SMEs) around nutrition. This target will ensure that sustainable country-level support around nutrition is provided to SMEs. The support should include building the capacity of SMEs to provide safe nutritious food, creating a better enabling environment for SMEs to produce and deliver safe nutritious food, and ensuring better access to nutrition-related investments for SMEs.