The collaboration with policy makers is essential to achieve the ARISE-NUTRINT project objectives. This project aims to deliver a better understanding of diets and nutrition and physical activity-related risks of non-communicable diseases among adolescents in seven countries in SSA, how to optimize implementation of evidence-based interventions that promote healthy behaviours among adolescents and youth, long-term costs-and effects and impact of these interventions, and the factors that lead to the adoption, scale up, sustainment, and knowledge translation of these interventions. Given this tremendous burden noncommunicable diseases pose in the SSA region, this project aims to ultimately contribute to improving the health, economic and broader societal outcomes of all in the region. The ARISE-NUTRINT project also aims to contribute to major targets of the Sustainable Development Goals, specifically Target 3 “Good Health and Wellbeing”, and the African Union Goals and Priority Areas of Agenda 2063 “Healthy and well-nourished citizens.”