2025 GNC Annual Report

GNC 2025 Global Annual Report

Global Nutrition Cluster 2025 Annual Report – Summary

The GNC’s 2025 Annual Report highlights the collective response to rising malnutrition amid intensified global crises, including conflict, climate shocks, economic instability, and shrinking humanitarian financing. Despite these challenges, the GNC and its partners sustained coordinated nutrition responses across 45 countries, reaching millions of vulnerable people and strengthening locally led action. 

Guided by its 2022–2025 Strategy, the GNC focused on three strategic pillars: People, Operational and Technical Support, and Enabling Environment, while laying the foundation for a new strategic phase (2026–2029). Our key achievements are noted below. 

Capacity Strengthening (CS)

• Delivered 14 Nutrition in Emergencies (NiE) trainings reaching 458 participants, including 77% from Local and National Actors (LNAs).
• Over 12,000 learners across 157 countries accessed GNC Learn, with new modules on disability inclusion, CVA, and coordination.
• Conducted 9 blended coordination trainings across 6 countries, with increasing national ownership in contexts such as Sudan and Cox’s Bazar.
• Continued mentoring programmes reaching participants across 14 countries to strengthen coordination, programming, and information management capacity.  

Localisation

• Strengthened localisation efforts, with 58% of in-depth support sourced from within the region or country, reflecting a shift toward locally led responses.
• Engaged 991 partners at country level and 54 global partners, reinforcing inclusive and people‑centred coordination.
• Advanced tools and support for LNAs, including localisation strategies, directories, and inclusive practices scorecards. 

Operational Support

• Provided support in 45 countries, including 19 Humanitarian Response Plan contexts.
• Responded to 212 support requests across coordination, information management, and technical programming.
• Facilitated 36 deployments to 16 countries, alongside remote and helpdesk services.
• Maintained coordination capacity, with 86% of HNRP countries retaining a Nutrition Cluster Coordinator.
• Strengthened Nutrition Information Systems with new guidance on alternative data sources and analysis in constrained settings. 

Preparedness and Climate Integration

• Ensured 100% of HNRP countries received Emergency Response Preparedness (ERP) support, including training and updated contingency plans.
• Advanced integration of climate risk, anticipatory action, and environmental analysis into nutrition coordination and programming. 

Enabling Environment

• Hosted 24 webinars with over 2,400 participants, advancing knowledge on coordination, climate, gender, CVA, and nutrition data.
• Strengthened global technical guidance through active working groups on gender, disability inclusion, climate, and nutrition systems.
• Expanded digital engagement, reaching nearly 700,000 impressions across platforms. 

Looking Ahead (2026)

• Accelerate localisation and capacity transfer, strengthening country-led coordination.
• Expand preparedness and anticipatory action, including climate-responsive programming.
• Adapt to funding constraints through agile, partnership-driven coordination models.
• Launch the GNC Strategy 2026–2029, focusing on a more connected, locally led, and impact-driven approach to nutrition in emergencies.