Empowering Communities Through Nutrition: Aline’s Journey with the NICE Project

The Nutrition in City Ecosystems (NICE) project is transforming lives by improving nutrition and promoting healthier diets through locally-led actions. Across six secondary cities in Rwanda, Kenya, and Bangladesh, NICE works closely with local communities to connect consumers with farmers who produce food sustainably. The following story of Aline Ayingeneye and her son is a …

NICE showcasing its multisectoral governance efforts at #WPHNCongress2024

What makes a successful nutrition collaboration? was one of the key questions during the World Public Health and Nutrition Congress 2024, June 10-13, in London. We as NICE were extremly honoured to contribute to the discussion by briefly presenting our NICE project in an oral parallel session and contributing to the discussion on the HOW …

NICE showcasing its multisectoral governance efforts at Geneva Health Forum 2024

27May2024 was Health and Environment: A Time for Solutions Day at Geneva Health Forum accompanying the 77th World Health Assembly. The event’s call has been clear, we need to work interdisciplinary and in a mutlisectoral, mutli-stakeholder approach bringing all, CSO, authorities, science etc. on the same table. The momentum of such discussion is now key …

Local government representatives and NICE country managers involved in a peer-learning study tour to Zurich and Geneva, Switzerland

What can cities learn from each other, when it comes to nutritious and climate-friendly solutions? A diverse group of local government stakeholders from the NICE cities (Dinajpur and Rangpur, Bangladesh, Bungoma and Busia, Kenya, and Rubavu and Rusizi, Rwanda) accompanied by the NICE country managers and some consortium staff went on a peer-learning field trip …

NICE discussing how multi-level governance helps secure urban food security, the right to food and healthy diets

Cities stand as pivotal players in shaping the trajectory of food systems across urban, peri-urban and rural landscapes, as well as in implementing the right to food and enabling healthy diets. This urban shift brings both opportunities and challenges to the forefront. The critical role of cities in addressing challenges within food systems and countering …

NICE @ ETH Food Day 2023

NICE participated with 3 posters in the 2023 edition of ETH World Food Center’s Food Day 02Nov2023 in Zurich and appreciated the great opportunity for exchanging on ideas, insights and innovations with like-minded people and initiatives, and simple networking.

NICE organizing a sponsored session “Cities Session: Nutrition Interventions to Close the Micronutrient Gap in Secondary Cities” at the 6th Micronutrient Forum Global Conference 16-20Oct2023 in The Hague

Secondary cities tend to be better linked with their surrounding foodshed than primate cities and act as important platforms to trade agricultural produce within their rural surrounding. With more and more people living in cities, urban food systems become increasingly important, and urban contexts and modern lifestyles also present opportunities to better reach consumers through …

NICE hosting a Breakfast Partner Side Event at Women Deliver 2023 in Kigali on “Empowering women as change agents in nutrition-sensitive food systems”

Women play an essential role in food systems, often leading growing, processing, and marketing of food. When women are given equal opportunities to succeed, they can be powerful agents driving economic growth, peace, and improved quality of life. On 19Jul2023, NICE hold an inspiring #Women Deliver 2023 Partner Side Event on “Empowering women as change …

NICE at the 2023 World Congress of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Nairobi

On 12Jul2023, Straton Habumugisha, NICE Country Manager Rwanda, took the opportunity to showcase the NICE project in IALE World Congress‘ special session on Food sensitive planning levers for sustainability: scales and spaces. In the presentation, the numerous dimensions of malnutrition in Western Rwanda and their request for collaborative, multisectoral, social-ecological interventions have been shared with …