Convened by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), SBN Nigeria was launched on April 21, 2016. Aligned with the SUN movement’s overarching vision, our goal is to create a world without malnutrition by 2030. SBN Nigeria was set up with the mandate to serve as the central hub for engaging the private sector in addressing nutrition-related issues throughout the country. Over the past seven years, SBN Nigeria has been dedicated to strengthening private sector contribution towards improving nutrition and enhancing the impact of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria, thus increasing access to affordable nutritious and safe foods.
The SUN Business Network (SBN) aims to increase the availability and affordability of safe, nutritious foods to consumers, especially low-income consumers through activities at national and sub-national levels. At a national level, SBN convenes businesses, assesses technical, financial and other business support service needs for members, and advocates the role of businesses in addressing nutrition at the country level. At a sub-national level, SBN acts as a focal point for engaging local businesses in nutrition activities such as advocating for adoption of nutrition best practices in promoting healthier diets.
SBN will continue to build on its successes with an enhanced focus on supporting SMEs to scale, including youth and women-led businesses, by advocating and working with the government to facilitate an enabling business environment to unlock business investment in nutrition, both for SMEs and large national companies.
It will also work to further strengthen sub-national engagements with the private sector to build strategic relationships and encourage positive nutrition related contributions by the sub-national members.
The SUN Business Network is co-convened by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and the World Food Programme (WFP). However, in Nigeria it is solely convened by GAIN and the SUN secretariat which is resident in the Federal Ministry of Health.
At a global level, SBN acts as a mechanism for engaging Multi-National Companies (MNCs) in nutrition and critically, for supporting national SBN networks to mobilize local businesses in line with national nutrition priorities and plans.
SBN Nigeria aims to increase the availability and affordability of safe, nutritious foods to consumers, especially low-income consumers through activities at global and national levels. At a national level, the SBN convenes businesses, assesses technical, financial and other business support service needs for members, and advocates the role of business in addressing nutrition at country level.
SBN Nigeria aims to increase the availability and affordability of safe, nutritious foods to consumers, especially low-income consumers through activities at global and national levels. At a national level, the SBN convenes businesses, assesses technical, financial and other business support service needs for members, and advocates the role of business in addressing nutrition at country level.
The SUN Business Network (SBN) website (www.sbnnigeria.org) is legally owned and managed by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN).
GAIN (“We”) is committed to protecting the privacy and security of the site visitors. This policy explains when and why Personal Data (as defined below) is collected, how it is used, and what security measures are put in place to keep it safe.
GAIN is a non-profit foundation, duly constituted under the laws of Switzerland, with the purpose of advancing nutrition outcomes by improving the consumption of nutritious and safe food for all people, especially those most vulnerable malnutrition. In 2010, the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement was launched to support national leadership and collective action to scale up nutrition through a multi-sectoral and stakeholder approach. The SUN Business Network (SBN) is one of the four global networks that support SUN countries (along with UN, Civil Society and Donor Networks). SBN is co-convened by GAIN and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and further supported by an Advisory Group comprised of senior business leaders.
The SBN aims to reduce malnutrition in all its forms through mobilizing business to invest and innovate in responsible and sustainable actions and operations. To do this, SBN provides a neutral platform to broker partnerships and collaboration between business and all actors on nutrition at national, regional, and global level to support SUN Country plans. We believe that when consumers demand improved nutrition, business will act, and national economies will grow.
GAIN is the data controller for the purpose of data protection legislation. GAIN’s registered office is: Rue de Varembé 7, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland.
In this Policy, Personal Data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified.
We may collect, use and store the following types of Personal Data about you when you use the site, register for the course or correspond with us, including but not limited to:
This site is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Data relating to children.
The processing of your Personal Data is necessary:
We will use your Personal Data to:
We will only use your Personal Data for the purposes for which we collected it.
Regarding data security, we have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your Personal Data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In the event of a Personal Data breach where your Personal Data is impacted, we will use the information collected through the Site to contact you.
7. HOW LONG WILL WE KEEP THE PERSONAL DATA?
We will only retain your personal data as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for.
8. SHARING
The Personal Data you provide through the site may be shared with the following categories of companies, if this is necessary to provide with the services or respond to your enquiries or for any of the purposes described in this policy including but not limited to the following- internal third parties, external third parties (other organizations and/or specific service providers.
9. MARKETING
Where you have agreed to or we are otherwise entitled to contact you for marketing purposes, We may use your Personal Data to send you information about GAIN and SBN activities. You can stop receiving such messages at any time by clicking “unsubscribe” in the emails you receive. You can also reach out to us through sbnnigeria@gainhealth.org.
10. YOUR RIGHTS AS DATA SUBJECT
At any time, you have the right:
Any request from you for access to or a copy of your Personal Data must be in writing and We will endeavour to respond within a reasonable period and in any event within one month in compliance with data protection legislation. GAIN will comply with the legal obligations respectively as Data Controller with regards to your rights as a data subject.
We aim to ensure that the information We hold about you is accurate at all times. To assist us in ensuring that your information is up to date, do let us know if any of your personal details change using our contact email : sbnnigeria@gainhealth.org.
11. CONTACT
Please contact us via email sbnnigeria@gainhealth.org if you:
If you have any concerns about our use of your information, you also have the right to make a complaint to the relevant supervisory authority, which regulates and supervises the use of your personal data in your country of residence.
12. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
Any changes We make to the privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to the policy.
This policy was last updated on 30th November 2023.