Meet the Pitch Your Partnership Winners
World Food Day 2025 featured the Pitch Your Partnership final, spotlighting scalable ideas that accelerate sustainable and inclusive food systems. From 29 entries, five finalists pitched live to a jury and audience. Two winners were selected: a Jury Prize and an Audience Prize.
Jury Prize: Helen Keller Intl · INAS Integrated Nutrition
What it is
INAS is a multi‑sector partnership led by Helen Keller Intl and NFP that works with local governments to identify acutely malnourished children and link their caregivers to integrated nutrition education, climate‑smart food production, income activities, and school‑based meals, while building savings groups, system coordination, and evidence for scalable policy.
Why the jury chose it
A strong systems approach connecting health, food, and education with clear pathways to scale, building on a Cambodia pilot and LMIC priorities.
Our 1‑minute pitch on the INAS Integrated Nutrition concept—building on our Cambodia pilot—stood out for its creativity and systems thinking, connecting health, food, and education for better nutrition outcomes. We’re excited to receive NFP’s support in building new partnerships and the visibility that comes with it.
Audience Prize — INCLUSA · Inclusive Agribusiness Accelerator
What it is
The Inclusive Agrifood Systems Accelerator is a practitioner‑led initiative from INCLUSA and a global network of GESI and agribusiness experts, building on years of work with agribusinesses through AgriProFocus, GIZ, 2SCALE and other market systems programmes to help firms design, finance and scale inclusive models.
Why the audience chose it ( with 45% of the vote)
A clear business case for inclusion across supply chains, workforces, and markets, linking gender data to measurable Return on Inclusion for agribusiness and investors.
"Inclusion isn’t charity, it’s smart business. With NFP’s support I look forward to partnering with agribusinesses and investors to measure Return on Inclusion and show that gender‑responsive businesses perform better.”
What Winners Receive
Jury Prize: 30 hours of intake and ideation support from NFP, plus 80 hours of scoping facilitation with third‑party costs included. Audience Prize: 40 hours of intake, ideation, and matchmaking support from NFP. Visibility across NFP channels and the World Food Day community.
Author
Mark Fonseca Rendeiro
Communications Officer - NFP
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