SUN at the UN Food Systems Summit
On 23 September, the world, and a vast range of SUN Movement actors, will gather for the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021 and speak up and out for the transformations so needed to ensure a healthy people and planet alike.
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2021 World Breastfeeding Week
Each year, from 1-7 August, countries, organisations and nutrition champions celebrate World Breastfeeding Week all over the world. In 2021, under its theme ‘Protect Breastfeeding: A Shared Responsibility’, this week served as an important a time to revisit the commitments made.
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#ACT4FOOD #ACT4CHANGE
On 18th May, a global youth-led food movement was launched, promising to ignite a campaign action to combat hunger, improve health and heal the planet. The #Act4Food and #Act4Change campaign takes the form of a simple pledge and list of actions. The pledge brings together young people from around the world to focus on personal action and advocacy as a contribution to systemic change.
COVID-19 and nutrition knowledge hub
This knowledge hub aims to be a resource for all members of the SUN Movement to get informed and sheds light on important links between COVID-19 and nutrition, hunger, health and food systems
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Nutrition for Growth Year of Action
The Governments of Canada and Bangladesh, in partnership with the Government of Japan, today hosted a virtual launch of the Nutrition for Growth Year of Action, setting in motion a year-long effort to address a global hunger and nutrition crisis that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Get Involved
Join a SUN Network!
Joining the Donor Network
The SUN Donor Network at the global level welcomes all development partners and multilateral donors who are engaged in nutrition or wish to intensify their engagement through stronger contributions with the SUN Movement. The SUN Donor Network is actively engaged at the working level and in the Senior Officials Group, which is providing strategic and political guidance to the network. All donors agencies are represented at both levels.
Membership in the SUN Donor Network is by institution and not by personal interest and there are no application forms or set criteria for joining. To send a request to the SUN Donor Network, complete this Contact Us form with the subject “Join the SUN Donor Network” and address it to the Network Facilitator and Co-facilitators – Maren Lieberum, Anne Peniston & Ben Siddle.
Becoming a Donor Convenor
The appointment of the Donor Convenor at country level is debated and decided at country level by the donors and the relevant government authorities. The Donor Convenor role in each SUN Country is also appointed by institution and not at a personal level. Applicants for the Donor Convenor position are those actively engaged in the country, with a country presence and involved in financing or providing technical assistance to nutrition specific or nutrition sensitive programmes. Donors not represented in the global Donor Network, can be eligible for the donor convener role.
Learn more on the about the SUN Donor Network
Global Membership
Currently, the UN Network’s global membership is made up of FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO. Click here to learn more about the commitment made the the five principals of these agencies.
Country Membership
At the country level, membership of the UN Network includes United Nations funds and programmes, specialized agencies (such as FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO), and other agencies and institutions active in nutrition at the country level. Various additional United Nations agencies are already involved in nutrition and participate in the UN Network in some countries. These include, among others, UNFPA, UN Women, IAEA, International Labour Organisation, UNDP, UNHCR, United Nations Office for Project Services, and the World Bank. The UN Network for SUN encourages full participation of all United Nations entities active in nutrition in a given country as this contributes to the harmonization and effectiveness of the United Nations.
You can access tools and resources developed by the UN Network for SUN here and you can also contact the UN Network at UNNetworkforSUN@wfp.org.
Learn more about the UN Network for SUN.
The SUN Business Network (SBN) has developed a public register of commitment to encourage transparency and accountability. Commitments may have been made to other platforms (such as Every Woman Every Child or Nutrition for Growth Compact) provided their impact on nutrition is clearly articulated. These commitments will be reviewed by the SBN co-chairs and the SUN Movement Secretariat and published on the SBN website. Any organisation submitting a commitment must agree to provide an annual update reporting progress.
Each organisation wishing to become a member of the SBN is required to submit:
- a statement that the organisation supports and complies with the SUN and SBN Principles of Engagement, as well as
- a statement of its planned or actual contribution (either financial, in-kind or knowledge/technology transfer) to either nutrition-specific interventions or nutrition-sensitive interventions, aligned with the SUN Strategy or one or more individual country’s nutrition action plan.
Membership forms, templates and guidance can be found here on the SBN website: www.sunbusinessnetwork.org
Learn more about the SUN Business Network.
Become a Member of the SUN Civil Society Network
Following the principle of inclusiveness of the SUN Movement, membership is open to any civil society organisation and institution wanting to link with the SUN Civil Society Network (CSN). Joining the network should however be an institutional choice and not an individual one. Organisations already member of another network of the SUN movement will not be eligible for SUN CSN membership. By becoming a member, you commit to actively contribute to the objectives of SUN and the SUN CSN. Individuals interested to follow SUN CSN efforts are welcome to become friends of the network to follow our efforts and receive regular progress updates by contacting us here.
- Membership strategy and process
English| Français | Español - Membership form
English| Français | Español - Registration information sheet
English| Français | Español - Disclosure form
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Learn more about the SUN Civil Society Network.
How do countries join?
Committed countries are at the core of the SUN Movement. Any country working to deliver progress and action to scale up nutrition and respects the SUN Movement Principles of Engagement can join the SUN Movement.
Nutrition events
Online Forum
SUN Movement en-net is a free and open resource which provides a space for informal discussion of topical issues, approaches and good practices in relation to SUN Country efforts in Scaling Up Nutrition.
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SUN is a global movement led by countries.
Working together to scale up nutrition in SUN Countries, we are achieving what no one of us can do alone.
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