Erwan Chapuis, International Development Director at NUTRISET

1. SUN Business Network, Nairobi, June 10th 2015
Erwan Chapuis, International Development Director, NUTRISET
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Local Solution
to Fight Malnutrition

2. PlumpyField is a network of entrepreneurs based as closely as possible to the needs, who produce
solutions for the treatment and prevention of malnutrition. By using local agricultural resources and
developing agribusiness, they durably participate to socio-economic of their regions.
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PlumpyField network in 2015

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4. Missions to achieve the « Nutritionnal Autonomy for all »
 Manufacturing quality nutritional solutions to
meet the needs
 Developing industrial facilities and competencies
to meet increasing demand
 Working with upstream raw materials supply
chains to ensure high quality products
 To develop other related services such as Lab
facilities or innovative distribution channels
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5. Centre of services & expertise
Technology transfer and continuous support on:
- Quality management
- Process technologies
- Purchase & logistics
- Finance & management control
- Management tools…
Since 2004
68 people trained
at Nutriset
20 persons daily
dedicated to the
network
11 centers of
expertise
PlumpyField business case
Franchiser & Coordinator
Selection of entrepreneurs who share a cause
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6. 650 employees
Socio-economic contributions
Number of people benefitting from products made by members of the
network who are based in programmatic countries (in thousands).
17000 MT procured
from 2005
Quality enhancement
of R/M suppliers
New business
opportunities
NUTRITIONNAL IMPACT
 Between 50 and 100% coverage of SAM in
programmatic countries
 Quick access to solutions
 A way to sustain national nutritional strategies
450 employees
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7. Zoom on HILINA Foods, ETHIOPIA
 Member of the network since 2007
 Production of Plumpy’Nut and Plumpy’Sup
 224 permanent jobs and a capacity > 10 000 tons /year
 > 1 million children have received products from HILINA
New projects for scaling-up nutrition
 Chick Pea based RUSF
 Enov’Range of products for Pregnant and
Lactating Mothers
Product diversification Related activities
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8. Next steps for scaling-up
Increase the coverage for SAM/MAM through local response
 Extend the network in programmatic countries
 Promote local production vs import, especially governments, donors and procurement agencies
 Legal status for nutritional solutions for tax exemption
Tackling the chronic malnutrition with innovative production and distribution systems
1’000 days
The PlumpyField network is
engaged in Ethiopia, Ouganda
and Burkina Faso
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9. THANK YOU
For your attention
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