PATH is awarding grants to civil society organizations to improve maternal and child nutrition. The grants are part of the four-year Nutrition Embedding Evaluation Programme (NEEP), funded by the UK Department for International Development, to generate evidence on best ways to address undernutrition with a...
Read MoreFrom the 1st to 4th December 2013, a large delegation of senior donor officials visited Zambia to look at the current state of nutrition in the country and government’s progress to scale up nutrition interventions. The officials are members of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN)...
Read MoreThe most recent SUN Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF) call for proposal under the fund’s ‘window 2’ (which supports civil society organization alliances) closed on November 11, 2013. On 27 November, members of the SUN Movement MPTF Management Committee met to review the proposals. Altogether 83 proposals...
Read MoreThe new guidelines provide global, evidence-informed recommendations on a number of specific issues related to the management of severe acute malnutrition in infants and children, including in the context of HIV....
Read MoreThe AFC on Monday kicked off the ‘One Goal’ campaign along with partners World Vision, DSM, Global Alliance for Improving Nutrition and the Asian Football Development Project to ensure that children across Asia eat, live and play right. Focused on providing nutrition for every child in...
Read MoreIn Malagasy, the word ‘Hina’ signifies characteristics of unity, strength, support and consolidation. In collective commitment to work together, representatives from across the country came together in Antananarivo on 5 November 2013 to launch, Hina – the country’s Civil Society Alliance for Scaling up Nutrition. Representatives...
Read MoreIn this report, authors Jim Levinson and Yarlini Balarajan of UNICEF New York and Alessandra Marini of the World Bank present three major case studies from Peru, Brazil and Bangladesh, but also a historical review of multisectoral nutrition activities in several other countries around the...
Read Moreen-net is a free and open resource to help field practitioners have access to prompt technical advice for operational challenges for which answers are not readily accessible. It is hosted and run by the Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN) (www.ennonline.net). en-net is an interactive online forum that...
Read MoreOn 4-5 November 2013, an official ceremony and workshop took place to launch, review and approve Chad’s National Nutrition Policy (2014-2025). The official opening ceremony of the workshop took place just after the presentation session of the policy document. It was chaired by the Minister of Public...
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