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Throughout October and November 2015, Action Against Hunger worked with Peru’s most famous chefs to raise awareness of chronic child malnutrition. The fourth ‘restaurants against hunger’ campaign ran for two months and raised money for the detection, prevention, and treatment of malnutrition from special menus designed by…

From 3 to 4 December 2015, the Government of Indonesia and Indofood organised a regional workshop for over 100 delegates from 13 SUN countries in the region attended. Representatives came from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao PDR, Indian state of Maharashtra, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines,…

From 30 November 2015 – 11 December 2015, the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21/CMP11) was held in Paris, France. From the event, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) were able…

On 4 December 2015, a four-year partnership agreement was signed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) to improve diets, strengthen agricultural research to combat hunger, and track international progress toward more food security and better nutrition. The…

In December 2015, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced ta grant of USD 13.4 million to the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative (TCi) to help combat malnutrition in India. The funding would allow the Cornell University project to scale up its work promoting a more nutrition-sensitive food…

From 3 to 5 November 2015, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation hosted a workshop with the Indonesian Government in West Java, Indonesia. Representatives came from Afghanistan, Uganda, and Turkey to; share experiences of and opportunities for successful implementation and scale up of nutrition programs agree on the…

In November 2015, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launched a new manual titled “Designing nutrition-sensitive agriculture investments. Checklist and guidance for programme formulation”. The manual is designed to guide programme planners in the design of nutrition-sensitive programmes. Increasingly, institutions investing in food systems have committed themselves to…

On 1 December 2015, the last bi-monthly meeting of the SUN Network Facilitators for 2015 took place. The meeting, chaired by Christine Campeau of the SUN Movement Secretariat, presented regional updates, such as the latest priorities for future action from Latin American SUN Countries and…

On the 4 and 19 November 2015, the SUN Movement Secretariat chaired the bi-monthly conference calls of the SUN Network Facilitators. An introduction and welcome was given by Ben Siddle, IrishAid’s Policy Lead on Nutrition and incoming SUN Donor Network Co-Facilitator. Ben is supporting Maren Lieberum (SUN Donor…

In November 2015, the evaluation team of the SUN Movement Multi Partner Trust Fund (MPTF) evaluation released the SUN Movement MPTF Interim Report. This Report presents: an update on the progress of the independent evaluation; and principal preliminary findings, including possible options for the future…

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is exploring ways in which it can increase its support to SUN Countries through effective partnerships across the SUN Movement. The African Development Bank (AfDB) recently announced its plans to increase its support to countries on nutrition as part of…

In November 2015, Cote d’Ivoire’s Ministry of Health and AIDS Control launched a national nutrition social and behavior change communication (SBCC) strategy through the Coordinating Director of the National Nutrition Program. It was developed in collaboration with the National Program for Care and Treatment of…

Ann Jimerson As the clock ticks to mark the first hour of the baby’s life, a young mother raises her hand to contradict her mother-in-law, who wants to give the baby honey instead of breastmilk. It’s one of my favorite TV spots from Alive & Thrive’s (A&T) program in Bangladesh. Every time I view this TV spot, I feel a surge of emotion when the young mother firmly says, “No, give her to me. I have to breastfeed.”