Accelerating the end of hunger and undernutrition by 2025 needs swift actions that are well formed and implemented. Decision makers need sound evidence and timely advice, as well as novel approaches, to guide such actions.
At the global level, Compact2025 has developed a Knowledge & Innovation (K&I) Hub to support countries’ own agendas for ending hunger and undernutrition. Through this global K&I Hub, Compact2025 provides policymakers and practitioners with pragmatic, evidence-based guidance on scaling up success stories to end hunger and undernutrition. This hub serves to provide evidence, generate and share knowledge, and experiment with innovative ways to advance food security and nutrition.
The global K&I Hub has four major focus areas:
1. Catalyze Innovation
Through a virtual innovation lab, the Global K&I Hub will engage with researchers and practitioners from a wide range of sectors to pilot and experiment with out-of-the-box ideas for implementing and scaling up strategies against hunger and undernutrition. To further spark innovation and jump-start research and action in areas critical to the mission of Compact2025, the lab will offer access to competitive grants and build local capacity.
2. Generate Knowledge
Through a web-based portal, the Global K&I Hub provides curated knowledge – including key publications, multi-media presentations, toolkits, and more -- on how to accelerate progress towards ending hunger and undernutrition. Best practices from all over the world will be synthesized to promote South-South learning. The Hub will also disseminate regular bulletins on important developments in food security and nutrition. A number of resources are already available as a part of the K&I Hub, including Nourishing Millions, a collection of evidence-based case studies of nutrition successes.
3. Engage Stakeholders
The Global K&I Hub facilitates opportunities for decision makers to interact, learn, and take action on hunger and undernutrition within their countries, networks, and platforms. These opportunities include in-country roundtable discussions and forums as well as South-South learning events and Global Events. The Hub links policymakers, practitioners, and researchers from different sectors through virtual and in-person policy dialogues.
4. Monitor Progress
The Global K&I Hub will assess progress toward ending hunger and undernutrition by 2025 through a dashboard of key indicators, thereby helping provide accountability for global, regional, and national goals and initiatives, such as Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement, and others. Further, the K&I Hub will bring together key reports and indices that track commitments and progress such as the Global Nutrition Report and Global Hunger Index, boosting country capacity to collect and act upon better quality and timely data on food security and nutrition.
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