The Access to Nutrition Index (ATNI) is founded on the premise that Food & Beverage manufacturers can make a strong contribution to addressing poor nutrition and related diseases. The ATNI assesses and ranks the world’s largest manufacturers based on their nutrition-related commitments, practices and performance globally.
This metric assesses the extent to which companies support such efforts through three criteria:
E1 Supporting staff healthy and wellness
E2 Supporting breastfeeding mothers in the workplace
E3 Supporting consumer-oriented healthy diet and active lifestyle programs
To perform well in this Category, companies should:
- Offer comprehensive nutrition and healthy lifestyle programs within their overall staff health and wellness programs, for all employees and their families globally.
- Set and achieve (or exceed) targets for participation in these programs.
- Commission independent evaluations of the health and/or business impacts of these programs, and publish these evaluations.
- Offer supportive maternity leave policies, flexible working arrangements and appropriate workplace facilities for breastfeeding mothers when they return to work.
- Commit to support integrated, comprehensive consumer-oriented healthy diet and active lifestyle programs and campaigns in all major markets, developed and implemented by independent organizations with relevant expertise.
- Commit to not use brand-level sponsorship in association with these programs.
- Commission and publish independent evaluations to assess the health impacts that these programs deliver.
- Support third-party social marketing campaigns aimed at educating undernourished consumers (or those at risk of undernutrition) on a range of nutrition issues, including breastfeeding, the appropriate introduction of complementary foods, and the benefits of micronutrient supplementation, eating fortified products and a diverse diet.