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The Lancet was founded in 1823 and has strived to make science widely available to positively impact the lives of people. The core belief of its family of renowned medical journals aim to serve society and helps ensure that the best science leads to better lives. A number of key publications based on conclusions from international collaborations of investigators have formed the basis of evidence for many nutrition-related efforts across the SUN Movement.

The UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank inter-agency team regularly updates joint global and regional estimates of child malnutrition. These estimates of prevalence and numbers for child stunting, overweight, wasting and severe wasting are derived by United Nations (UN), Millennium Development Goals (MDG), Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), UNICEF, WHO and World Bank regions, as well as World Bank income group classifications.

The Global Nutrition Report (GNR) is the only independent and comprehensive annual review of the state of the world’s nutrition. It is a multipartner initiative that holds a mirror up to successes and failures at meeting intergovernmental nutrition targets. It documents progress on commitments made on the global stage, and it recommends actions to accelerate that progress.

The SUN Movement supports collaboration to enable SUN countries’ access to different initiatives and ensure these innovative financing mechanisms are part of the solution to mobilize more nutrition funding, to reach the 2025 WHA and 2030 SDG targets on nutrition.

Since 2015, four new financing mechanisms were launched with a significant nutrition focus: Global Financing Facility (GFF) (36 SUN countries); Power of Nutrition (PofN) (10 SUN countries); UNITLIFE; Nutrition impact bonds. In addition to these four mechanisms, the World Bank Human capital project launched in 2017 (33 SUN countries out of 60 countries overall) will provide an opportunity to secure nutrition financing for the next years through new partnerships with the GFF, the Power of Nutrition and the SUN Movement.

The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) (40 SUN Countries), initiated in 2009, is a multilateral financing mechanism dedicated to fighting hunger, malnutrition and poverty in developing countries in line with the SDG 2.

The UN Decade of Action on Nutrition 2016-2025, has been a leap forward in galvanizing international action on nutrition. The resolution invites governments to actively support its implementation, including the setting of national nutrition targets for 2025 and milestones based on internationally agreed indicators.

The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) is an inclusive international and intergovernmental platform for all stakeholders to work together to ensure food security and nutrition for all. Using a multi-stakeholder, inclusive approach, CFS develops and endorses policy recommendations and guidance on a wide range of food security and nutrition topics.

The Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) was a 2014 high-level intergovernmental meeting that focused global attention on addressing malnutrition in all its forms. The two main outcome documents, the Rome Declaration on Nutrition and Framework for Action, committed world leaders to establishing national policies aimed at eradicating malnutrition and transforming food systems to make nutritious diets available to all.

World Health Assembly Resolution 65.6 endorsed a Comprehensive Implementation Plan on Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition, which specified six global nutrition targets for 2025.