Our 2025 Year in Review is an overview of a pivotal and challenging year for the international development community.
United Against Malnutrition & Hunger (UAMH) is a cross‑party, cross‑sector alliance advocating for stronger global action on malnutrition and hunger. This review highlights our work to elevate these issues in Parliament and strengthen collaborative efforts across the sector.
As CEO Jonny Oates notes in his Foreword, cuts to Official Development Assistance (ODA) have reinforced our commitment to ensuring that nutrition funding is protected. Investment in nutrition is essential to development, prosperity, peace, and security—and remains firmly in the UK’s strategic interest.
Our Highlights and events section covers a wide range of activity: from the APPG on Nutrition for Development’s delegation to Tanzania, to a Nutrition Breakfast at the Chelsea Flower Show, a photographic exhibition in the heart of Parliament, Party Conference panels, and the launch of Debt and Malnutrition: Ending the Doom Loop, which sets out practical recommendations for transforming debt from a barrier to development into a driver of growth.
As Secretariat to the APPG on Nutrition for Development, UAMH supported the APPG’s focus on the Nutrition for Growth Summit in Paris and on championing UK scientific and development expertise in addressing global food insecurity. More detail is provided in our Spotlight on Nutrition for Growth and Spotlight on Science sections.
We thank the cross‑party Members of both Houses who continue to champion nutrition in Parliament—raising questions, initiating debates, and addressing issues such as ODA cuts, nutrition‑immunisation integration, the use of starvation as a weapon of war, and humanitarian crises in Gaza and Sudan. UAMH also contributed to seven Select Committee inquiries, summarised in News and views from Parliament.
Our interview feature offers insights from sector leaders, including a profile of Geraldine O’Callaghan, Director of the World Food Programme’s Global Office in London, who shares her motivations for working in nutrition advocacy. New Board and Executive Team members are profiled in UAMH Alliance news.
UAMH in the media highlights editorial coverage we secured that chimed with politically salient events. While Reports, publications, and campaigns on nutrition from the sector provides a curated list of key sector resources.
Thank you for reading our 2025 Year in Review. We look forward to continuing our work to end global malnutrition.