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This brief presents key outcomes from the Cross-Country Learning and Knowledge Exchange on Nutrition-Sensitive Social Protection, convened in Islamabad in December 2025 by the Global Task Force on Social Protection for Nutrition (GTF) and hosted by the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), Government of Pakistan, and by the Government of Timor-Leste, with facilitation from the World Food Programme (WFP).
The GTF, chaired by H.E. President Ramos-Horta of Timor-Leste, is a country-led initiative dedicated to strengthening social protection’s role in addressing the growing challenges of hunger and malnutrition, particularly in fragile and least developed countries. Its key objectives are to ensure nutrition sensitive social protection is a priority in the global agenda, and to foster peer-to-peer learning and exchange on scaling up such approaches.
The South‑South learning exchange served as a dialogue among countries committed to integrating nutrition outcomes into social protection systems. It built on the momentum of the Second World Summit for Social Development held in Doha on 4-6 November 2025 reinforcing the leadership of the Global South in shaping the nutrition-sensitive social protection agenda.
Participants included representatives from the governments of Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, Niger, Lao PDR, Pakistan (national and provincial) and Timor-Leste, as well as development partners and international financial institutions. Reflecting the multisectoral approach needed to address malnutrition, sectors represented included social protection, health and nutrition, education, agriculture, and planning and finance.