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2019 24 June

The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement: striving for impact at scale

In 2019, I do not think we need to talk about ‘why’ when it comes to scaling-up nutrition. We are far beyond that. According to the report The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018, for the third year in a row...

2019 20 May

Nutrition International launches bold plan to drive SDG progress

David Martin | Advocacy Global initiatives Investments Multi-stakeholder planning Nutrition commitments SUN Civil Society Network, SUN Donor Network 0

Nutrition International released its plan to mobilize CAD 700 million through 2024 in the global fight against malnutrition. The investment case, the first of its kind for a global nutrition organization, will finance the scale-up of proven high-impact, low-cost nutrition interventions, particularly for women, adolescent girls and children. It lays...

2019 11 May

SUN Movement Coordinator visits Burkina Faso: “Better institutional anchoring for nutrition”

David Martin | Nutrition commitments Policies & laws SUN Movement Coordinator SUN Civil Society Network, SUN Country Network 0

On 29 and 30 April 2019, the Coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement, Gerda Verburg, made a working visit to Burkina Faso. During her stay, Gerda Verburg held discussions with the political authorities, including the President of Burkina Faso and the president of...

2019 08 April

SWA sector ministers’ meeting, an agreement on decisive actions to end inequalities in access to water and sanitation

David Martin | SUN Movement Coordinator Sustainability WASH SUN Civil Society Network, SUN UN Network 0

Over 50 ministers came together to agree on joint action towards achieving universal access to water, sanitation and hygiene at the two-day SWA 2019 Sector Ministers’ Meeting. These discussions among ministers and their development partners mark a breakthrough in the global approach to the governance,...

2019 01 April

Ethiopia Nutrition Leaders Network launched

David Martin | Champions Nutrition commitments SUN Civil Society Network 0

The Ethiopia Nutrition Leaders Network (ENLN) was launched the past month of February. Committed to ending child malnutrition by 2030, Ethiopia has now approved its Food and Nutrition Policy (FNP) and is moving forward in creating food and nutrition council and a Secretariat, a governing...

2019 20 March

An Investment Framework for Nutrition: reaching the global targets for stunting, anemia, breastfeeding, and wasting

David Martin | Global initiatives SUN Civil Society Network, SUN Country Network, SUN Donor Network 0

In 2015, 159 million children under the age of five were chronically malnourished or stunted, underscoring a massive global health and economic development challenge (UNICEF, WHO, and World Bank 2015). In 2012—in an effort to rally the international community around improving nutrition—the 176 members of...

2019 18 March

Innovative financing mechanisms in nutrition, a policy brief by ACF

David Martin | Humanitarian field SUN Civil Society Network 0

The 2018 Global Report on Nutrition (GNR) highlighted that undernutrition remains a major global problem causing at least 45 per cent of deaths of children under 5 years in most developing countries. Specifically, chronic undernutrition continues to affect the world with 150.8 million stunted children...

2019 08 March

Activism brings fortified flour to Suusamyr in Kyrgyzstan

David Martin | Equality Food systems gender equality Women's empowerment SUN Civil Society Network, SUN Country Network 0

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2019 Think equal, build smart, innovate for change! Ainagul Muratalieva has never seriously thought about fortification. To her, a simple sense of fullness was equal to good nutrition. She is the head of a local community-based nongovernmental organisation. Ainagul and her family live in...

2019 22 February

Senegalese civil society takes action to make nutrition a key issue of the presidential election

David Martin | Advocacy Nutrition commitments SUN Civil Society Network, SUN Country Network, SUN UN Network 0

Senegalese civil society used a press conference in Dakar to challenge candidates in the country's presidential election to be held on 24 February 2019. "The fight against malnutrition is a development imperative," said Mr Seydou Ndiaye, National Coordinator of the Civil Society Organisations Platform for Nutrition...

2019 19 February

Nourishing Africa through improved nutrition and sustainable food systems: African launch of the EAT-Lancet Report

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

During an official side event at the 32nd African Union Assembly, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – the SUN Movement, EAT and NEPAD came together to focus on the question - How to Nourish Africa through improved nutrition and sustainable food systems? The side event officially Launched the...