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2018 25 October

The SUN Movement put nutrition high on the agenda during the 73rd UN General Assembly

The SUN Movement helped ensure that nutrition was high on the agenda during the 73rd United Nations General Assembly in New York at the end of September 2018. Transforming Food Systems to Drive Impact on SDG2 On 25 September, the SUN Coordinator, Gerda Verburg, shared her views...

2018 17 October

Taking stock: a progress report on Nutrition for Growth

David Martin | Advocacy Capacity building Global initiatives Investments SUN Civil Society Network, SUN Donor Network 0

Article written by Nandini Pillai* and originally published by ACTION This World Food Day, ACTION is reflecting on progress made over the last five years to fill the gap in financing for nutrition by releasing Following the Funding: Nutrition for Growth — Progress Report. It includes ACTION’s...

2018 16 October

Zambian civil society organisations engage the media to increase nutrition advocacy coverage

David Martin | Advocacy Media SUN Civil Society Network 0

The media are critical in influencing the well-being of communities. Advocacy campaigns and visibility, are vital to engage the media in educating the public and raising awareness on the importance of nutrition, as well as its long-term effects. The media can use its collective power...

2018 30 August

Tisu Zimpita, SUN Nutrition Champion: “To boost global nutrition, give local advocates more tools”

David Martin | Advocacy Champions Blogs 0

Article written by Andrew Green, originally published in Malnutrition Deeply Tisungeni Zimpita led one of the first national-level efforts to coordinate organizations to focus on nutrition, which led her to be named a Scaling Up Nutrition Champion. She shares some of the lessons from her work. TISUNGENI ZIMPITA, An award-winning...

2018 27 August

Civil society pushes for more public spending on nutrition in East and Southern Africa

David Martin | Advocacy Investments Nutrition commitments Regional initiatives SUN Civil Society Network 0

Civil societies from Eastern and Southern Africa have called on governments to increase spending on initiatives aimed at fighting malnutrition. The groups have proposed that governments increase their spending from 0.54 per cent of their national budgets to 3 per cent to bolster efforts to...

2018 24 July

Implementing effective actions for improving adolescent nutrition

David Martin | Advocacy Research SUN UN Network 0

This publication is a derivative product summarizing the global, evidence-informed recommendations and principles of the World Health Organization that address malnutrition in all its forms in adolescents with the aim of ensuring healthy lives and well-being among this group. It complements the WHO recommendations on adolescent...

2018 11 July

Marketing of breast-milk substitutes: National implementation of the international code – Status Report 2018

David Martin | Advocacy Breastfeeding Child nutrition Maternal health Women's nutrition SUN Country Network, SUN UN Network 0

This report provides updated information on the status of implementing the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent relevant World Health Assembly resolutions (“the Code”) in and by countries. The report documents the adoption of new legislation implementing the Code in a few...

2018 05 June

Scaling Up Nutrition Champions to gather at the EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2018 for more and better nutrition leadership

Iselin Danbolt | Advocacy Champions Food systems SUN Lead Group and Secretariat 0

The 2017 Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Champions took part in the EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2018, preceded by a first of its kind, three-day Champion Training from 8-10 June, supported by EAT and the SUN Movement [1] and designed to help progress national food and...

2018 10 May

The success story of reducing malnutrition in Ethiopia

David Martin | Advocacy Child nutrition Nutrition commitments SUN Country Network 0

The European Union (EU) and UNICEF launched a photo book entitled “Ending malnutrition in Ethiopia – A success story STORY” which illustrates Ethiopia’s success story in ending malnutrition, through the voices, stories and images of Ethiopians. The nutrition photo book launch and photo exhibition held in the...

2018 11 January

The need for a Parliamentary Alliance on food security in the Congo

David Martin | Advocacy Parliamentarians SUN Country Network 0

On 28 December 2017, the FAO organised an awareness raising workshop for Members of Parliament in Brazzaville. Following the workshop, the participants established a structure to draft legal texts and set up the governing bodies of a Congolese Parliamentary Alliance on food and nutritional security. In her...