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ENN has published a series of case studies on multi-sector nutrition programming at the sub-national level as part of our Knowledge Management (KM) work under the DFID funded TAN Programme (supporting learning within the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement).

In Tajikistan, more than 20 percent of children under the age of five are stunted. Stunting and undernutrition in childhood are usually the result of several contributing factors related to environment, food, hygiene, and health. Risks related to malnutrition are most concentrated in rural areas of Tajikistan, underscoring the large disparity between rural and urban areas.

“Colorful dishes, convincing hygiene practices, diverse kitchen gardens and an innovative nutrition hotline – the Malawi country package carries out activities in close consultation with partner organizations and government representatives. But how are they perceived by the population? Mothers from the districts of Dedza and…

Every third person in the world is malnourished. Alarmingly, around eight out of ten malnourished children reside in middle-income countries (MICs) with lower middle-income countries (LMICs) shouldering the biggest share of this burden. This ‘silent emergency’ is dictating the survival and potential of these populations,…

Viet Nam champions the SUN Movement and leads the way for other SUN Countries English | Français | Español

On 9 March 2018, UN Secretary-General António Guterres appointed the Executive Director of UNICEF, Henrietta H. Fore, as the new Chair of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Lead Group in recognition of her strong commitment to improving human development globally and experience bringing together…

More than 7 million people in South Sudan – almost two-thirds of the population – could become severely food insecure in the coming months without sustained humanitarian assistance and access, three United Nations agencies warned today. If this happens, this will be the highest ever…

Between 2007 and 2016, El Salvador recorded a fall in chronic malnutrition in girls and boys in the first grade of education in 93.4 per cent of its municipalities, according to the fourth National Height Survey and first National Weight Survey of schoolchildren, presented by…

The newly established National Early Childhood Development Programme will help fast-track implementation of anti-mulnutrition measures in the country, the Prime Minister has said. Edouard Ngirente gave the reassurance in the Senate where he laid out strategies to eradicate malnutrition, especially among children under five years in Rwanda.

On 19 February 2018, the office of the Prime Minister of Somalia held a high level roundtable meeting supporting the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement. The meeting was graced by a number of ministers, high level government officials, donors, UN agencies, business community and civil society members….

Celebrating our 2017 successes and Scaling Up (Nutrition) for the year ahead English | Français | Español

On 14 and 15 February 2018, the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement Networks gathered at the SUN Secretariat in Geneva for their annual retreat. The two-day meeting provided an opportunity for the four networks (Business, Donor, Civil Society, UN Networks) to define, along with the SUN Secretariat, actions to improve coordination of the SUN Movement support system and tailor support to countries with different rates of Progress.

On 7 March 2018, the NEPAD Agency and its development partners at the first NEPAD Agency-Pan African Parliament high level event on Nutrition and Food Systems, made the call for more action towards addressing the scourge of hunger and all forms of malnutrition on the…

On 5 March 2018 the Trade and Markets Division of FAO issued the Crop Prospects and Food Situation report. According to the report, some 37 countries are in need of external assistance for food, unchanged from three months ago.

The Fill the Nutrient Gap* tool is used to identify which nutrition specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions are most appropriate for a given context to improve nutrient intake, one of the two direct causes of malnutrition (the other cause being disease). Any intervention should ultimately result…

The Swiss Cooperation contribution in DRC will contribute to reducing the prevalence of chronic malnutrition in children under 5 years old and to meeting the nutrition needs of 12,000 pregnant women and nursing mothers and 12,000 children aged 6 to 23 months, through the various interventions of United Nations agencies. This funding will be over a period of three years. Aid with a value of US$3 million will enable UNICEF, FAO and WFP to continue and extend their project to combat chronic malnutrition in the health areas of Bunyakiri and Minova, in Sud-Kivu province.

The fight against nutritional deficiencies can only be won with a multifaceted approach. It calls for individuals, food producers and the government joining hands together to ensure success. In the last few years, there has been some heightened level of nutrition awareness amongst some Nigerians.

The *Somalia Nutrition Cluster commissioned Forcier to geo-tag nutrition services delivery sites and assess their capacity across Somaliland, Puntland and central and southern Somalia. The main objective was to validate the operational status of the sites and identify gaps in service delivery to strengthen the…

In late December, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP) announced an alliance “to join forces to support the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean in the fight…

On 25 Jan 2018, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) presented the report “Chad: food security and nutrition crisis. Appeal for a response at scale“. In Chad, over four million people are affected by food insecurity and malnutrition each year….