A new report by the International Food Policy Research Institute reflects on the concept and measurement of women’s empowerment and reviews some of the structural interventions that aim to influence underlying gender norms in society and eradicate gender discrimination. The report then proceeds to review...
Read MoreThe Global Gathering was an extraordinary moment in the SUN Movement. It brought together 140 participants from 40 SUN Movement countries, and more than 60 participants from the SUN Movement Networks. David Nabarro, SUN Movement Coordinator, shares his reflections on the lead up to the event,...
Read MoreTilaye Nigussie, former Country Director for Concern Worldwide Rwanda (now in Tanzania) wrote this poem for Rwanda’s second national nutrition summit, held in Kigali from November 22-23, 2011. The conference focused on scaling up nutrition interventions to prevent irreversible physical and mental stunting during the...
Read MoreNoble Nketia is the leading celebrity ambassador of Ghana’s Civil Society Association (CSA) - the Ghana Coalition of Civil Society Organizations for Scaling up Nutrition. He is a Ghanaian gospel artiste with a successful music career spanning 13 years and several awards including the best...
Read MoreThe first meeting of the Global Panel meeting took place on 28th and 29th October 2013 in London. Co- chaired by former President Kufuor of Ghana and Prof Sir John Beddington, former UK Chief Scientific Advisor, the Panel agreed its aims and objectives, identified the...
Read MoreDuring the 68th session of the UN General Assembly in New York in September 2013, the Safe Water for All (SWA) Chair and former President of Ghana H.E Kufuor co-chaired a roundtable breakfast meeting with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to discuss linkages between nutrition...
Read MoreThe SUN Movement recognises that no one single sector can scale up nutrition alone. At the core of the Movement are nationally owned and ambitious plans to scale up nutrition by 43 countries, supported by four global networks- Donor, Business, Civil Society and UN agencies....
Read MoreA seminar on "Nutrition and Sustainability : A Practical Approach to Integrating Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Nutrition and Health Agendas" co-organized by the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition, (UNSCN), Bioversity International, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of the Republic of...
Read MoreOn 7 October 2013, the Republic of the Congo became the 43rd country to commit to scaling up nutrition with the SUN Movement. ...
Read MoreThe latest report of the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2013 was published on 8 October and identifies a number of policies that generate hunger and malnutrition rather than reducing them. One of the articles in the report ‘The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Initiative’...
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