The company was founded in 2024 to fill a need for the private sector to contribute and accelerate progress towards addressing malnutrition and food security challenges in Africa.
With its headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria, Impacter Solutions operates a social impact-driven business model, focusing more on creating impact. We operate with a lean and agile consulting approach and assemble tailor-made teams of experienced experts on a project-by-project basis.
Our strength lies in our network of experts. This model allows us to quickly adapt to our clients’ needs, tackle each project’s unique challenges, and work directly and collaboratively with our clients to deliver the best value for money
Our experts are hand-picked based on a track record of experience working as subject matter experts in the field and demonstrating results. They are local experts who understand local contexts around our projects, bringing hands-on technical expertise and skills with fresh perspectives to each project.
We bring decades of demonstrable experience in policy review and development, regulatory landscape analyses, multi-stakeholder engagement and coordination, strategic advisory, socio-economic impact assessments, gender in nutrition and food systems transformative approaches, and data-driven, AI-powered insights.
The Africa Regional Overview on Food Security and Nutrition (2023) shows that Africa remains off-track to meet the Malabo targets of ending malnutrition by 2025 and food security and nutrition targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 2) by 2030. Over 280 million people (about 20% of the population) are undernourished. In West Africa, for example, the prevalence of undernourishment continues to steadily rise, from 10.6% in 2014 to 14.6% in 2022 and severe food insecurity from 11.4% in 2015 to 22.0% in 2022. Sadly, more people are at risk due to the interplay of factors, including global conflicts affecting food prices, climate change and its impact on food production and nutrition, and the post-Covid-19 effects, from which countries have not fully recovered.
Addressing the complex interplay of factors driving poor outcomes in maternal, child, and adolescent nutrition and food insecurity in Africa is crucial. From weak governance and policy implementation challenges to incomplete and poor-quality data, gender inequalities in food and nutrition, and financing gaps, these setbacks necessitate African countries to step up efforts to reduce hunger and malnutrition and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
The role of private and social enterprise companies and organizations in tackling food security and nutrition challenges has been fully explored and their positive impact documented. From technical expertise, innovative technologies, data-driven solutions to transformative food systems, the private sector is a key player in accelerating progress towards tackling malnutrition and food insecurity.
Impacter Solutions was founded out of the burning desire to contribute to changing this narrative. We believe that the solution to Africa’s challenges of malnutrition and food insecurity lies in the hands of local technical expertise, using evidence-based, innovative, contexual approaches. African countries can change the current narrative to better outcomes. It is not just a possibility; it is a responsibility.
Our solutions are grounded in a comprehensive needs assessment before project design and execution. We use evidence-based methodologies and tools to analyze a program or landscape. The results of the analyses guide us to design targeted, cost-effective, and sustainable solutions for our client. Our services are delivered through four business divisions:
Develop food and nutrition policies. Provide strategy consulting to governments & donors. Conduct baseline, midterm, and impact assessments & policy and regulatory landscape analyses.
✔ Expert-Led Policy and Strategy Advisory Services: Our team brings decades of experience in nutrition, food security, and public health policy and strategy leveraging local expertise and contexts.
✔ Holistic & Scalable Approaches: We focus on feasible and viable local solutions that are scalable and sustainable.
✔ Tailored Approaches: We customize every engagement to meet our clients’ needs and priorities.
✔ Data-Driven Decision Solutions: We use AI, predictive modeling, and impact assessments to guide policy and funding decisions.
We work with national and subnational governments across sectoral ministries, departments, and agencies, international donors, implementing partners, development financing institutions, and private companies to catalyze progress towards addressing malnutrition among women of reproductive age, under-five children, and adolescents, and addressing food insecurity while strengthening human capacity and system efficiencies.
