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9 APRIL 2014: At a two-day consultative stakeholders forum in Lilongwe, the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) countries have agreed to promote small holder farmers in order for the region to boost its agriculture base production. Opening the conference, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Security,…

11 APRIL 2014: The law department has given approval to draft the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Protection of Breastfeeding and Child Nutrition (amended) Act 2013. The proposed law for one of Pakistan’s four provinces, makes the manufacturers of formula milk bound to seek permission for marketing and…

11 April 2014: Action Against Hunger | ACF International has released a discussion paper about recent commitments made by nutrition stakeholders. The paper shares five key recommendations by ACF for nutrition donors and the broader nutrition community: Refine the tracking methodology developed by the main…

In Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on 4 April 2014, the second pilot self-assessment workshop, hosted by the Ministry of Health, brought together over thirty participants to discuss and assess national progress made based on the four strategic objectives underpinning the SUN Movement. Mrs. Bertine Ouaro, the…

FAO NEWS, 4 APRIL 2014: The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP) unveiled results of their joint work to develop targets and indicators for a new global development paradigm for sustainable…

THE GUARDIAN, 9 APRIL 2014: Burundi’s children are among the most malnourished in the world, but a project empowering mothers gives hope for a solution. Of Burundi’s 11 million inhabitants, 90% rely on agriculture, which means a large proportion of the population is affected by acute…

Read the March 2014 Update for news from SUN Countries and around the Movement.

The 10th Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme Partnership Platform (CAADP PP) meeting held from 18 – 22 March, came at a critical reflection moment with 2014 declared as the Year of Agriculture and Food Security as well as the commemoration of 10 years since CAADP…

WFP, 4 APRIL 2014: The first report of the Cost of Hunger in Africa (COHA) Study was launched on 28 March in Abuja during a high level event organized on the sidelines of the Seventh Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development….

On the 30 March 2014, in Yokohoma, Japan, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report on Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. The report acknowledges that human interference with the climate system is occurring, and climate change poses risks for human and…

The Zambia Civil Society Scaling Up Nutrition Alliance (CSO-SUN), in partnership with the United Nations Technical Working Group on Nutrition in Zambia hosted a lecture entitled Understanding Undernutrition! What can we do about it – delivered by Dr. Bjorn Ljungqvist from the United Nations Renewed Effort Against…

On 5 February 2014, the multi-stakeholder platform for nutrition in Cameroon met in Yaoundé to watch the first official screening of the film entitled “Tous les efants sont des princes” (All children are princes). The event was organised by UNICEF and brought together viewers from…

A series of enhanced learning exercises are planned to support the next phase of a project – led by the Global Social Observatory – to explore the issue of preventing and managing conflict of interest within the context of the SUN Movement. These meetings are…

A discussion of the national Nutrition Information System (NIS) for Ethiopia as it was in early 2011 is presented in the box on page 33. In the last few years the system has been strengthened, extended and some of the challenges addressed. These changes are described by the author below.

Namibia has undertaken an ambitious project to develop and pilot a dashboard of indicators for improved nutrition. The purpose of the dashboard is to ensure that information collected is linked to coverage of interventions and can be used to inform decisions at all levels. The dashboard is part of Nambia’s new Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Implementation (2012/2013 to 2015/2016).

In response to persistent hunger and under-nutrition, particularly among the poor, the Government of Zimbabwe launched a Food and Nutrition Security Policy in May 2013. The policy marks the start of a concerted effort to promote economic development by addressing food security and nutrition challenges in a robust, coordinated, and multi-sectoral manner.

Despite the political crisis which has afflicted Madagascar since January 2009, the government is committed to advancing progress on scaling up nutrition through a strong multi-sectoral approach. Representatives from a wide cross-section of sectors and stakeholders work together through the National Nutrition Council or Conseil National de Nutrition (CNN) under the supervision of the Prime Minister.

Sri Lanka made impressive progress in improving the health and nutritional status of its population between the 1970s and 2000. Advances have slowed in the last 15 years, however, resulting in high levels of undernutrition relative to gross domestic product and to infant mortality rates. In rural Sri Lanka, where 80% of the population live, stunting rates are now moderately high compared to other indicators of development.

In Kigali on 26 March, the SUN Focal Point, Dr. Fidele Ngabo, Director of Maternal and Child Health at the Ministry of Health, led a pilot workshop to test tools and methodology for monitoring national level progress on scaling up nutrition. The workshop was attended…

The Government of Rwanda has set itself an ambitious target: to reduce child stunting from 44% to 24.5% by 2018. It has moved food and nutrition to the centre of the country’s development agenda and updated the National Food Security and Nutrition Policy (2013) and the accompanying National Food Security and Nutrition Strategic Plan (2013-2018).