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Hunger, malnutrition, lack of micronutrients, overweight and obesity have greater impact on people with lower income, women, indigenous people, Afro-descendants and rural families in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to a new UN report. The Panorama of Food and Nutrition Security 2018, focuses on the…

The SUN Movement Pooled Fund was formulated in 2017 as a last resort, catalytic source of grant funding to support SUN Civil Society Alliance activities at the national and subnational level. The grants will be administered by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)….

The Global Financing Facility (GFF) in Support of Every Woman Every Child today announced US$1.005 billion in contributions from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Burkina Faso, Canada, Côte d’Ivoire the European Commission, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Laerdal Global Health, the Netherlands, Norway, Qatar and the…

* Originally published by the UN Network for SUN The UN Network for Nutrition (UNN) and its intensive multi-sectoral Technical Assistance arm, REACH (Renewed Efforts Against Child Hunger and undernutrition), worked closely with the Government of Burkina Faso and United Nations Country Team to conduct…

Four specialized agencies of the United Nations today warned of a colossal human loss to Asia and the Pacific and its economies if countries in the region do not recommit themselves to ending all forms of malnutrition and achieving zero hunger by 2030. The warning…

More than two hundred parliamentary representatives from different countries all over the world participated in the first Global Parliamentary Summit against Hunger and Malnutrition in Madrid. This event reaffirmed the political commitment to ensure that everybody has access to sufficient and quality food. 821 million…

* Originally published by the UN Network for SUN A government-led mapping exercise was successfully executed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), culminating in a mapping validation workshop on 28 September 2018 in the nation’s capital. The exercise drew upon UN Network support and…

The Parliamentary Front against Hunger (PFH) in Haiti, together with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), organized a workshop in Port-au-Prince on 10 October to report on departmental consultations regarding the draft law on school feeding with the aim of finalizing…

The 2018 SUN Movement annual Lead Group meeting Over 20 Global Nutrition Champions gathered at the 73rd UN General Assembly to chart a way forward for the SUN Movement English | Français | Español

BREASTFEEDING: Foundation of Life World Breastfeeding Week helps raise awareness about the importance of breastfeeding: it improves the health, wellbeing and survival of women and children English | Français | Español

The SUN Movement conducts a study on the design of an effective multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder platform in Guatemala English | Français | Español

The SUN Movement at the EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2018 SUN Nutrition Champions and SUN Lead Group members gather for more and better nutrition leadership English | Français | Español

In an effort to provide quality emergency health services including basic package of health and nutrition services, WHO is implementing an integrated health, nutrition and WASH services to save the lives of populations at risk. To reach people with virtually no health, WHO deployed the…

The SUN Movement helped ensure that nutrition was high on the agenda during the 73rd United Nations General Assembly in New York at the end of September 2018. Transforming Food Systems to Drive Impact on SDG2 On 25 September, the SUN Coordinator, Gerda Verburg, shared…

In 2017, at the Global Nutrition Summit in Milan, the Eleanor Crook Foundation (ECF) made its first large financial pledge: to invest $100 million in nutrition by 2030. The RISE for Nutrition annual Nutrition Request for Applications (RFA) is one key vehicle through which ECF will fulfill that pledge. This portfolio funds research on cost-effective, scalable innovations designed to improve nutrition interventions in East Africa. ECF launched the RISE for Nutrition grant portfolio in 2016 in order to help bridge the gap between identification of successful nutrition interventions and getting those interventions to those who need them most.

For many women, the journey to access healthcare is long and exhausting, as they walk under the scorching sun while pregnant or carrying small children. They have come to the hospital receive their take home ration of special fortified cereal, attend nutrition counselling and receive a health check-up, a service provided by the Government of Nepal and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). For 33,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women and children under 2, receiving nutritious food not only helps to prevent malnutrition, but is an incentive to attract women and caregivers to local health facilities. Here, they can access services which helps them raise healthier children. WFP is currently providing nutrient-rich foods to families in 6 districts across the country.

On 16th October, the SUN Movement Secretariat, in partnership with the Interparliamentary Union (IPU), FAO, WHO and the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health co-organized a side event at the 139th IPU Assembly in Geneva, titled: Legislating on food and nutrition: lessons learned, challenges…

The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) wrapped up its 45th Session tasking itself with formulating Voluntary Guidelines for Food Systems and Nutrition for approval in 2020. The guidelines are intended to be a reference document providing guidance to governments and other stakeholders on appropriate policies,…

[vc_row row_type=”row” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_column_text custom_options=””] The African Nutrition Society and the Food and Nutrition Society of Ethiopia organized this year, from October 1-5 the Africa Nutritional Epidemiology Conference (ANEC VIII) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The theme of this year’s Conference was “Multi-stakeholder nutrition actions in…