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2019 20 May

Nutrition International launches bold plan to drive SDG progress

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 13 May

Pakistan proudly kicks off the 2019 Joint-Annual Assessment for the Scaling up Nutrition Movement!

Sara Quinn | Advocacy Multi-Sectoral Multi-stakeholder planning Nutrition commitments SUN Country Network 0

Pakistan is the first SUN Movement country to conduct the Joint Assessment in 2019! The assessment was launched at the 6th Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Joint-Assessment Workshop held on April 26 in Islamabad, Pakistan. The event saw key stakeholders come together to review progress, reflect...

2019 15 April

A “national nutrition champion” to use advocacy to accelerate progress in nutrition

David Martin | Advocacy Champions SUN Country Network 0

On the sidelines of the first session of the National Nutrition Consultation Council (CNCN) to be held in 2018, Burkina Faso officially inaugurated its « "National Nutrition Champion", His Majesty Larlé Naaba. Held on 17 July 2018 at the Royal Beach Hotel in Ouagadougou, the...

2019 03 April

South Sudan moves forward on developing a Multi-sectoral Nutrition Action Plan

Barbara Rehbinder | Advocacy Multi-Sectoral Multi-stakeholder planning Programming SUN Movement Secretariat SUN Country Network 0

The Ministry of Health in collaboration with WFP and Save the Children on behalf of the UN Network and Civil Society Alliance organized a half day SUN Movement advocacy workshop on 22 February, bringing together 49 people from Ministries of Health, Education and General Instruction,...

2019 25 March

The SUN Business Network unveils its new website

Iselin Danbolt | Advocacy Business Global initiatives Multi-stakeholder planning Private sector SUN Business Network 0

The Scaling Up Nutrition Business Network (SBN), which is the world’s leading private sector initiative focused on nutrition, has launched a brand-new website. The launch signifies a new era for the SBN as it enters its second phase (SBN 2.0), with a renewed determination from...

2019 25 February

Nepal Zero Hunger, a strategic review of food security and nutrition

David Martin | Advocacy Food systems Multi-Sectoral Multi-stakeholder planning Nutrition commitments Policies & laws SUN Country Network, SUN UN Network 0

For Nepal, ending hunger and improving nutrition for all its citizens will be a significant task, but one that is within its grasp. The country has already made great strides in reducing undernourishment and stunting. However, the prevalence of both are still high and challenges...

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 12 February

African Union Commission and African Development Bank launch scorecard to track nutrition progress

David Martin | Advocacy Policies & laws Regional initiatives SUN Country Network, SUN Donor Network, SUN UN Network 0

The African Union Commission, the African Development Bank and global partners today launched the Continental Nutrition Accountability Scorecard to raise awareness and reinforce commitments by African governments to help end malnutrition. His Majesty King Letsie III of the Kingdom of Lesotho and African Union Champion for...

2019 07 February

ENN Online Nutrition Exchange Issue 11 – January 2019

David Martin | Advocacy Community Food systems Info systems SUN Country Network, SUN Donor Network 0

Launched in January 2019, ENN’s Nutrition Exchange Issue 11 features articles on stunting prevention in Indonesia; parliamentarian networks for nutrition in West Africa; SUN Networks in fragile and conflicte-affedted sates; interview with Mali's SUN focal point; and the development of a common results framework for nutrition...

2019 14 January

America’s countries establish action networks to contribute to the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition

David Martin | Advocacy Regional initiatives SUN Country Network, SUN UN Network 0

The Ministry of Health of Brazil has announced the launch of two new action networks in the Region of the Americas, in partnership with health ministries in other countries, as part of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition 2016-2025. The Action Network on Strategies for...