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2017 15 November
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Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) – the 2017 Global Gathering: Inspiration, Connection, Progress and Love

David Martin   |   Blogs, SUN Business Network 0

Blog by Lawrence Haddad, GAIN’s Executive Director and Member of the SUN Movement Executive Committee Read the original article published on the GAIN Website: www.gainhealth.org/knowledge-centre/scaling-nutrition-sun-2017-global-gathering-inspiration-connection-progress-love I just returned from the 2017 SUN Global Gathering (GG) in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. This three day meeting brought together teams from all of the 60 SUN...

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2020 19 March
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Tanzania selects nutrition sensitive SMEs through the 2019 Lishe Accelerator

David Martin   |   SUN Business Network, SUN Country Network 0

* Originally published by the SUN Business Network The Lishe Accelerator, launched in 2018, is a programme aimed at accelerating Tanzania’s nutrition sensitive SMEs through business development and investor readiness training. The second edition of the competition, organised by the SUN Business Network Tanzania, GAIN and Sahara Ventures ran from September...

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2020 25 February
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SUN Business Network independent evaluation 2019

David Martin   |   SUN Business Network 0

Foreword to the SUN Business Network Independent Evaluation (2019). By Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and Lauren Landis, Director of Nutrition, World Food Programme (WFP).  * Originally published by the SUN Business Network  In 2017, the SUN Business Network (SBN) formalised its theory of change and revised its...

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2019 12 November
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Working with businesses: How to improve the positives and minimise the negatives to better advance nutrition?

Iselin Danbolt   |   Blogs, Engaging Multiple Stakeholders, SUN Business Network 0

A blog by Lawrence Haddad* based on a plenary panel presentation made at the 2019 SUN Global Gathering in Kathmandu, 4-7 November The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement has been a pioneer in multi-stakeholder action to advance nutrition, bringing together government, civil society, business, donors and...

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2019 05 November
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SUN Movement Global Gathering brings together over 1,200 participants committed to improving nutrition

David Martin   |   Parliamentarians, SUN Business Network, SUN Civil Society Network, SUN Country Network, SUN Donor Network, SUN Lead Group and Secretariat, SUN UN Network 0

Every country in the world now faces a serious nutrition-related challenge, whether stemming from undernutrition, overweight/obesity, including non-communicable diseases. High-level representatives and over 1,200 participants from 73 countries committed to urgent actions to create a healthier, better-nourished future for all people and planet at the...

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2019 25 September
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Nutrition business monitor: a new self assessment tool for SMEs

David Martin   |   SUN Business Network, SUN Country Network 0

This article was originally published by the Access to Nutrition Initiative Together with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and the Access to Nutrition Initiative (ATNI), the SUN Business Network has started to develop a voluntary self-assessment tool for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to review where they stand in...

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2019 04 September
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World Breastfeeding Week 2019 in SUN countries

David Martin   |   SUN Business Network, SUN Civil Society Network, SUN Country Network, SUN UN Network 0

World Breastfeeding Week (#WBW2019) is celebrated every year from 1 to 7 August to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of babies around the world. It commemorates the Innocenti Declaration signed in August 1990 by government policymakers, WHO, UNICEF and other organizations to protect, promote and support breastfeeding.  This...

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