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2017 15 November

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...

2019 31 December

Business joins the fight against malnutrition in Sri Lanka with the support of the SBN

David Martin | SUN Business Network 0

The SUN Business Network (SBN) brought together thirty leading Sri Lankan businesses to pledge their support for three important agendas: improving workplace health and nutrition efforts; producing healthy food; and promoting healthy food consumption. The SUN Business Network (SBN) in Sri Lanka was launched in March 2019, amidst...

2019 12 November

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...

2019 05 November

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...

2019 25 September

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...

2019 04 September

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...

2019 02 September

Private sector role in improving nutrition at the Asian congress of nutrition

David Martin | SUN Business Network 0

* Originally published by the SUN Business Network Axton Salim, Co-Chair of the SUN Business Network’s Advisory Group and Director of Indofood spoke of the role of the private sector in accelerating the end of malnutrition at the 2019 Asian Congress of Nutrition. The Conference, entitles ‘Nutrition and Food...

2019 06 August

Launch of the 2019-2020 SUN Business Network pitch competition

David Martin | SUN Business Network 0

*Originally published by the SUN Business Network "Showcasing SMEs that are innovatively improving diet and tackling malnutrition" The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Business Network, in collaboration with key partners, has launched the second edition of the SUN Pitch Competition for 2019/2020. The SUN Pitch Competition will support innovative solutions for...

2019 30 July

Beacons for exploring uncharted nutrition territory: together for nutrition short course

David Martin | SUN Business Network 0

By Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director, GAIN and Myriam Sidibe, Senior fellow, Mossavar Rahmani Centre for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) co-led a 5 day Executive Short Course entitled “Together for Nutrition: Public-Private engagement to improve the consumption of nutritious...

2019 26 July

Leveraging public-private partnerships to champion better nutrition in South Asia

David Martin | SUN Business Network 0

* Originally published by the SUN Business Network More than 120 government officials, civil society organisations, private sector members and international donors from across South Asia gathered on 17-18th June 2019 at a regional roundtable hosted by SAFANSI, the World Bank’s South Asia Food and Nutrition Security Initiative. SAFANSI...

2019 02 July