* Originally published by the UN Network Peru is the first country in Latin America to conduct a Nutrition Stakeholder and Action Mapping exercise, one of the UNN analytics designed to guide countries in strengthening nutrition multi-sectorality and scale-up. The tool gives stakeholders a comprehensive picture of who...
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* Originally published by the UN Network An unusual combination of factors characterizes the nutrition profile of Papua New Guinea (PNG), located on the eastern half of New Guinea in Melanesia. For the largely rural population of eight million, with only 18 percent in urban areas,...
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* Originally published by the UN Network for SUN Honduras joined the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement in 2019 as the 61st member, making it the fourth Central American country to join SUN. The move was one of the latest signs of the Government’s commitment to...
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Zimbabwe has established functional Multi-sectoral platforms (MSPs) from national to sub-national level, responsible for implementing a coordinated and holistic response to food and nutrition insecurity in the country. The Food and Nutrition Council (FNC), also the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Convener, has the mandate to...
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The determinants of malnutrition are varied, encompassing a range of biological, economic and sociocultural factors. Achieving global targets for reducing undernutrition calls for a multisectoral approach that includes scaled-up, proven, nutrition-specific interventions as well as nutrition-sensitive interventions and approaches.1 The last two decades have seen...
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Dedicated local leadership supported by the SUN Movement Pooled Fund is delivering results for communities through multisectoral platforms Following Mali’s constitutional revision in 2017, recognizing the right to food and adequate nutrition as a constitutional right for Malians, strengthened advocacy towards decision-makers at various levels was...
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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...
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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...
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Foreword to the SUN Business Network Independent Evaluation (2019). By Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and Lauren Landis, Director of Nutrition, World Food Programme (WFP). * Originally published by the SUN Business Network In 2017, the SUN Business Network (SBN) formalised its theory of change and revised its...
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