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In October 2015, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) published a scientific report titled “Moving Forward on Choosing a Standard Operational Indicator of Women’s Dietary Diversity’’ which details the scientific research leading to a new dietary diversity indicator for assessing diversity of women’s diets at individual level….

From 28 to 30 October 2015, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) held a technical meeting in Vienna on Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (EED), Microbiome and Undernutrition. Over 50 experts were brought together for this meeting by IAEA’s Nutitional and Health-Related Environmental Studies Section. Stunting is known to…

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On 20 October 2015, a leadership award was presented to Shawn Baker, Director of Nutrition at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation at an award event organised by Sight and Life. Shawn Baker is also the Chair of the SUN Movement Executive Committee. The award celebrates…

On 21 October 2015, a High-Level Conference for an African Agricultural Transformation Agenda was held in Dakar, Senegal by the African Development Bank (AfDB). The event brought together Ministers beyond the agriculture sector including Finance, Economy and Rural Development and involved business leaders, civil society and…

On 1 October 2015, in the Vice President’s Conference Room, the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Secretariat of Sierra Leone officially launched the video documentary “Good Nutrition: Key for a Healthy Nation”. The documentary was developed by Action Against Hunger’s mission in Sierra Leone, in collaboration with…

William Chilufya Civil society advocacy work can be tiresome sometimes, there are times when you feel you are talking to yourself and no one is listening to the issues you are raising. Fortunately, there are the times of happiness and triumph, when you realise that all your hard work is paying off and you can say, “Oh my God, someone finally paid attention”!

From 28-30 October 2015, the Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security (ADFNS) was commemorated with continental level celebrations held in Uganda. The 6th ADFNS gave a special focus to women under the theme “Empowering Our Women, Securing Our Food, Improving Our Nutrition”, in line with…

From 19-30 October 2015, researchers from five institutions gathered for the second phase of a project to improve life-saving nutrition interventions and education at the local level in Tanzania. The first phase of the partnership, held in 2014, assessed the nutrition knowledge held by community…

On 27 October 2015, the Kenyan Ministry of Health, with support from partners, held a launch event in Nairobi to open Kenya’s 7th National Nutrition Week. The 2015 theme for the week was “THE RIGHT TO GOOD NUTRITION: What are your rights?” At the event,…

On 20 October 2015, the tenth edition of the Global Hunger Index report was launched at an event held at the Permanent Mission of Ireland in New York. The report presents a multidimensional measure of national, regional and global hunger. It shows that the world has…

On 7 October 2015, an information fair about combating child malnutrition was held in Yungay Province in Peru to support their Nutriwawa program. The event was organised by the Ministry of health and the Health South Pacific Network. Demonstrations held aimed to raise awareness of good dietary…

On 14 October 2015, the Zambia Civil Society Scaling Up Nutrition Alliance spoke before the Expanded Committee on Estimates of Revenues and Expenditures at parliament to share an analysis of the 2015 national budget from a nutrition perspective. The Alliance Country Coordinator William Chilufya shared…

On 20 October 2015, over one-hundred United Nations colleagues (including from UNICEF, FAO, WHO, IFAD, WFP, IAEA and REACH, UNSCN, GNC among others) from 48 countries gathered for a UN Network for SUN meeting as part of the SUN Movement Global Gathering in Milan. The SUN…

In September 2015, an analysis paper was released on Nutrition and health in women, children, and adolescent girls. It calls on urgent action to tackle malnutrition in all forms to help nutrition unlock the potential of investment in the health of women, children and adolescents….

From 11-12 November 2015, the German WASH-Network, an alliance of 19 German non-governmental organisations, is holding an international conference on the nexus between water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and nutrition security in the city of Bonn, Germany. The aim of the forum is to bring together relevant experts from…

On 20 October 2015, the SUN Movement Annual Progress was launched during the opening ceremony of the 2015 SUN Movement Global Gathering in Milan, Italy. The report provides a detailed snapshot of the progress and results towards scaling up nutrition in SUN Countries and the broad…

From 28 to 29 September 2015, the Parliament of Namibia hosted a regional seminar on Promoting child nutrition in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. The event was organised by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and UNICEF in Windhoek, Namibia, to enhance the understanding of parliamentarians and parliamentary…