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On 11 May 2016, the national Multisector Nutrition Plan (2016-2020) was adopted in Côte d’Ivoire at an event chaired by President Alassane Ouattara. The President noted that the plan will allow a stronger population with optimal nutrition by 2020 who will help drive sustainable growth…

By Denis Kovalenko, Corporate Grant Manager, Save the Children It’s five in the afternoon in Lilongwe and my colleagues are setting off from Save the Children’s office after a busy day… June is winter here in Malawi and it gets dark early; the last rays of…

19 May 2016 | By Denis Kovalenko, Corporate Grant Manager, and Sylvia Szabo, Nutrition Policy and Advocacy Adviser. Poor infrastructure and lack of employment opportunities contribute to high malnutrition rates in Niger. The latest Human Development Report ranks Niger bottom out of 188 countries on the…

Titus Mung’ou reflects on the 23rd Series of SUN Country Network Meetings where over 300 participants from 49 SUN Countries joined to share and learn from one another on sustaining political commitment to nutrition. About the author: Titus Mung’ou is the ENN Knowledge Management Specialist…

From 7 to 8 July 2016, SUN Government Focal Point, HE. Jean -Baptiste Ondaye, Secretary General of the Presidency, held a workshop in Brazzaville to identify and discuss budget allocations which contribute to the improvement of nutrition. Representatives from over twenty ministries were joined by…

In June 2016, an 11 member Ghanaian team was hosted by the Government of Japan to learn about how Japan is mainstreaming nutrition as a development agenda. The programme was sponsored by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and resulted in an action plan to be…

From 6 to 10 June 2016, Mozambique’s National Food Security and Nutrition Secretariat (SETSAN), which is tasked with coordinating nutrition action in the country, hosted a five-day, multi-country, interactive training on the Cost of Hunger in Africa (COHA) in Maputo.

UN Network colleagues from country, regional and global levels coalesced during a series of ten conference calls that took place on 27-29th June, engaging 46 countries. With representation from six UN agencies (FAO, IFAD, UNFPA, UNICEF, WFP and WHO), REACH facilitators and members of the…

Dr. Neelofur Malik is a private practitioner working in Pakistan and an advocate for hygiene and nutrition for healthy families. After facing her own challenges in life, she recognises how the confidence and self-esteem acquired in completing her studies has helped pull her through the challenges.

On 29 June 2016, the book Nourishing Millions: Stories of Change in Nutrition was launched in Washington DC by Transform Nutrition, a consortium led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Nourishing Millions brings together the most intriguing stories about improving nutrition from the past five…

In April 2016, the Food and Agriculture Organization launched the results of a case study titled “The Impact of Gender Policy Processes on the Right to Food”. The purpose of this study was to identify potential gender-related entry points for the development of activities on…

William Chilufya is a civil society advocate with a background in international development and poverty reduction. As a child growing up in the Central Province of Zambia, he remembers how children at school were divided according to their school performance and how children with difficulties…

Throughout her career working on health programmes in several countries in Africa and Asia, SanSan Myint, a medical doctor by training and currently the head of the Three Millennium Development Goal Fund in Myanmar, became increasingly aware of the nutrition issues faced by the population…

After training as a nutritionist, Manaan Mumma started her career working in maternal and infant nutrition. Working at the community level was a turning point for Manaan who witnessed how children suffering from acute malnutrition could recover when simple solutions, in the hands of community…

When Frealem Shibabaw was running a private school in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, a five year old child approached her and asked to be registered at the school despite him not being able to afford it. He was enrolled and performed very well until third grade,…

Being a medical doctor, Dr Christopher Dube has always been interested in nutrition and the wellbeing of children. But it was when he started working on the concept of the Mumbwa District Nutrition Coordination Committee (DNCC) – an initiative initially supported by Concern Worldwide as…

Christine Muyama has always been passionate about children’s wellbeing. From a young age she wanted to be a doctor and later went on to study nutrition at University. It was during a study trip to a health centre in Northern Uganda that Christine first encountered…

Basanta Kumar Kar is a poet, a development practitioner and a nutrition champion. He has seen poverty and malnutrition at close quarters since childhood. He has led, or been involved in, many successful nutrition initiatives in South Asia (particularly in India and Bangladesh) whilst working at…