Outgoing IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan reflects in a Global Food Policy article on the promise of food policy to change human lives. He shares experiences from his time at IFPRI and lessons learned about how to best exploit the promise of food policy to eradicate hunger and ensure food and nutrition security for all […]
NIPN in Ethiopia: bringing researchers, decision makers, and program implementers closer together through Policy and Research Seminars
Since the launching of the National Information Platform for Nutrition (NIPN) in Ethiopia, there have been a series of seven topical NIPN Policy and Research Seminars, which were brought by international and national researchers from different backgrounds and disciplines. Last September, the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) and Compact2025 joined hands to organize another seminar. […]
Bringing evidence to nutrition decisionmakers in Ethiopia: NIPN policy and research seminars
For research to inform decisions, evidence must reach decisionmakers. In Ethiopia, the National Information Platform for Nutrition (NIPN) promotes outreach of nutrition-related research findings by organizing topical Nutrition Research and Policy Seminars. These outreach activities are key opportunities to disseminate existing high-level research findings and to promote increased nutrition knowledge among programmatic, policy, and donor decision […]
Compact2025 strengthens capacities of NIPN stakeholders in Ethiopia to analyze existing data
Evidence-based decision making for nutrition policy and programming is critical to accelerate progress. In Ethiopia, the EU-backed National Information Platform for Nutrition (NIPN) supports this process by revisiting existing data and information to answer policy questions and to inform decision making. Ethiopia’s NIPN, established in 2018, is hosted by the Ethiopian Public Health Initiative (EPHI). […]
NIPN brings together researchers, implementers and decision makers to discuss Food Systems and Diets in Ethiopia
Almost eighty researchers, program implementers and policy makers came together at the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) on September 7, 2018 to discuss how food systems and diets are interlinked in Ethiopia. This opportunity was provided by the National Information Platform for Nutrition (NIPN) which convened its first Nutrition Research and Policy Seminar around this […]
