The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation’s (SDC) Nutrition in City Ecosystems (NICE) project connects the demand and supply side of food systems, engages women and youth – including through social business models – and builds local governance capacity initially in two secondary cities each in Bangladesh, Kenya and Rwanda. Emphasis is placed on increasing the production and demand for nutritious, and agroecologically produced foods, and on making food value chains more nutrition-focused so they contribute to better health. Multi-stakeholder and multisectoral collaboration bring together city authorities, local businesses and civil society and creates a dynamic network of city learning hubs for dissemination and scale up. Applying a holistic food systems approach, the NICE project is focusing on four main outcomes: