Find out how SUN countries in West Africa marked World Breastfeeding Week 2017 (WBW2017) under the theme “Sustaining Breastfeeding Together”, highlighting how breastfeeding provides the essential nutrients that infants worldwide need to grow, develop and survive....
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Article originally published by SDG FundOne of the keys to ensuring healthy nutrition is a varied and balanced diet. However, in rural areas of El Salvador where poverty, inequality, low wages and lack of employment mark the day-to-day reality, the scarce variety of nutritious products...
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Launched in July 2018, Nutrition Exchange Issue 8 features articles on community kitchens and school feeding programmes in Lebanon; Ecuador’s policies to tackle overweight and obesity; efforts in Pakistan to 'fill the nutrient gap'; initiatives to make agriculture ‘nutrition-sensitive’ in Ethiopia and Zambia; and many other ‘good reads’. ...
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On 23 and 24 June 2017, in Fianarantsoa, Madagascar, National Nutrition Day was celebrated on the theme: "Investing in the prevention of chronic malnutrition, guaranteeing human capital for economic and sustainable social development".Programs to combat malnutrition are no longer seen as ad hoc responses to those in...
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On 24 May 2017, SUN Movement Coordinator, Ms Gerda Verburg, along with a delegation from the SUN Movement Secretariat, travelled to the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh to review progress and the path ahead for scaling up nutrition.Uttar Pradesh State joined the SUN Movement in...
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On 23 May 2017, SUN Movement Coordinator, Ms Gerda Verburg, along with a delegation from the SUN Movement Secretariat, travelled to Mumbai, in the Indian State of Maharashtra, where they met with a range of nutrition champions scaling up nutrition across the region....
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From 7-8 May 2017, the SUN Movement Coordinator along with a delegation from the SUN Movement Secretariat visited Madagascar to reflect on progress made and the road ahead in the fight against malnutrition. Madagascar has one of the highest rates of childhood stunting in the...
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Healthphone has developed a new set of Mobile apps in partnership with The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and Hyderabad, a research and development organization under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India....
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From 5-7 April 2017, various nutrition champions across Nepal came together to engage on nutrition during a visit from SUN Movement Coordinator and UN Assistant Secretary-General, Gerda Verburg....
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Due to the relatively short, two-year duration of the program, SPRING’s work in Senegal relies on key partnerships with local producer organizations and media outlets to extend the reach of nutrition messages. Community radio programs, which are widely patronized in the three regions where SPRING...
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On 22 March 2017, World Water Day was celebrated to encourage action to tackle the water crisis under the theme "Why Wastewater?" to focus on water use reduction and reuse....
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