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2020 31 March

SUN Movement Pooled Fund success story in Nepal

Harnessing national reforms to advance nutrition: a SUN Movement Pooled Fund success story in Nepal As the fifth country to join the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement, the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal has continuously shown its commitment to end malnutrition in all its forms since May...

2020 11 March

Obesity, health and economic consequences of an impending global challenge

David Martin | Behaviour change Child nutrition Overweight and obesity SUN Country Network, SUN Donor Network 0

Long believed to be a problem exclusive to high-income countries, evidence shows that over 70 percent of the world's 2 billion overweight and obese individuals live in low- or middle-income countries. Faced with increasing disability, mortality, health care costs, and lower productivity, obesity is a...

2020 28 February

Guatemala launches Grand National Crusade for Nutrition

David Martin | Advocacy Behaviour change Education Multi-stakeholder planning Policies & laws Programming SUN Country Network 0

Guatemala launched one of President Alejandro Giammattei’s most significant projects in January: its Grand National Crusade for Nutrition. It will focus on detecting cases of malnutrition in 114 priority municipalities in order to eliminate this scourge from the population. The priority focus will be on high...

2019 22 October

Guiding principles for sustainable healthy diets

David Martin | Behaviour change Nutrition commitments SUN Donor Network, SUN UN Network 0

In the margins of World Food Day, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) published a set of Guiding Principles for Sustainable Healthy Diets. These guiding principles take into account nutrient recommendations and nutrient intake goals, and...

2019 04 October

Childhood Overweight and the Retail Environment in Latin America and the Caribbean

David Martin | Behaviour change Child nutrition Food systems Overweight and obesity SUN UN Network 0

Factors that promote overweight and obesity are particularly concerning in Latin America and the Caribbean, where an estimated 58 per cent of adults are overweight (compared to 34 per cent globally) and 23 per cent are obese – and 7 per cent of children under...

2019 20 September

A for-profit project has improved nutrition in Rwanda

David Martin | Agriculture Behaviour change Food systems Nutrition commitments SUN Country Network, SUN Donor Network 0

* Originally published by the World Bank No fewer than seven institutional and academic reports on sustainable global food systems were published in 2019. Never has there been so much attention paid to the role our food systems play in safeguarding the health of people and...

2019 13 August

The 2019 nutrition promotion month kicks off in Myanmar

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

The Nutrition Promotion Month (2019) with the theme of ‘’Invest in Nutrition: Join Hands in Building the Nation’’ will be conducted throughout August by seeking attention to the importance of coordinated effort to support good nutrition for all populations in Myanmar. With the leadership of...

2019 24 June

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

Barbara Rehbinder | Behaviour change Child nutrition Food systems Multi-Sectoral Multi-stakeholder planning SUN Movement Coordinator Women's empowerment SUN Civil Society Network 0

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 19 March

A nutrition story of change from Nepal

David Martin | Behaviour change Multi-stakeholder planning Nutrition commitments Policies & laws Information Systems for Nutrition, SUN in Practice, SUN UN Network 0

*An article by Prof. Dr. Geeta Bhakta Joshi and Stanley Chitekwe Background Nepal as part of the Global SUN Movement Nepal is a Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement early riser – the fifth country, joined the Movement on 5 May 2011 with a letter of commitment for scaling...

2019 08 March

Equality works, also for the SUN Movement: The Global Health 50/50 2019 Report

Iselin Danbolt | Behaviour change Equality gender equality Health Women's empowerment SUN Lead Group and Secretariat 0

The Global Health 50/50 2019 report is a review of gender-related policies and practices of 198 global organisations active in health, with a special focus on gender equality in the workplace. In 2019, the SUN Movement has emerged as one of 17 high performing organisations on...