On 8 June 2017, the SUN Business Network in Nigeria held a 1-day workshop on “Nutrition Communication and Social Media Marketing" to build the capacity of Network members to deliver good nutrition messages and grow their businesses. The workshop comes at a time where the...
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On 4 July 2017, the SUN Business Network (SBN) in Nigeria celebrated their one year anniversary with a grand event in Lagos where they presented their 3-5 year Strategic Business Plan in partnership with Accenture Development. The one-year anniversary titled, "Nutrition: Everyone's Business", brought together...
Read MoreFeature: West and Central African Parliamentarians came together in Burkina Faso to rally behind nutrition as the engine of the SDGs. ENGLISH...
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On 7 July 2017, the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) released a new report revealing the social and economic costs of undernutrition in the nation. The study emphasises the significant losses incurred each year through increased healthcare costs, additional burdens to...
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In June 2017, the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN) launched UNSCN NEWS 42. The latest issue focuses on the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition and provides a window of opportunity to enhance coordination and cooperation amongst all actors....
Read MoreOn 27 June 2017, the Inter-Parliamentary Union and UNICEF, in collaboration with Alive & Thrive and the support of the National Assembly and the SUN Movement Secretariat, held a two-day sub-regional seminar in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Titled, "Promoting Maternal & Child Nutrition in Western and Central...
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On 30 June 2017, the European Commission - Development & Cooperation, held a conference in Brussels on the European Union (EU) commitment to the SUN Movement and it's country-led approach to ending malnutrition in all its forms. ...
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On 12 June 2017, a new study was released by the New England Journal of Medicine on the Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries over 25 Years. The study comes at a time where the rising pandemic of obesity is receiving major...
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In June 2017, Bread for the World released a new briefing paper to review the contribution of the United States in ending global malnutrition. The United States has been critical to global nutrition efforts for decades and the paper stresses that the country must continue...
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Following months of strategic inter-agency work undertaken through a participative process by the members of the UN Network for SUN, the Heads of Agencies endorsed the Joint UN Nutrition Agenda for Burkina Faso, 2016–2020 (Agenda commun des Nations Unies pour la nutrition au Burkina Faso...
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