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. Workforce nutrition is essential for enhancing overall health.

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.

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

We support organizations to assess their workforce nutrition programme, develop an enhancement plan and implement their new programme.

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

Four themes for enhancing workforce nutrition

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

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

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

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

Pleased to meet you

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.

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.

Six steps to improve workforce nutrition

Our scorecard allows organizations to self-assess their workforce nutrition programme, to identify key opportunities that enhance it, and to create stronger rewards for employees and business.

Our services include readily available guidebooks and our self-assessment scorecard. We have convened top technical partners to help guide organizations in the development and implementation process.

Achievable targets are needed to drive real impacts of workforce nutrition programmes, which organizations can realize given their operating environments and local contexts.

Tracking and reporting on the progress made against the key performance indicators stimulates learning by doing and to share results and demonstrate organizations’ commitments and impacts.

An implementation plan helps to achieve the targets that have been set. To spark creativity and design impactful programmes, we offer learnings from other employers, including the Alliance’s Lighthouse Leaders.

Benefits range from from reduced absenteeism, enhanced productivity, lower accident rates, increased employee job satisfaction, and contribute to reducing malnutrition, a key global goal.

Implementing effective workforce nutrition strategies can significantly improve overall health and productivity.

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.