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In August and September 2015, the Abomey-Calavi Agricultural Sciences University in Cotonou, Benin will conduct three training workshops. These will be focused on nutrition in the framework of the 24th edition of the university’s international course in Human Nutrition and Food Security. The workshops will cover three…

Throughout February and March of 2015, the Scaling up Nutrition multi-stakeholder platform for nutrition in Pakistan embarked on a country budget analysis exercise. Along with 30 other countries undertaking this investigation, Pakistan aims to accelerate its tracking of nutrition-relevant budget allocations and to share and…

To be read as a bus ride, sometimes fast, sometimes slow; sometimes in shocks, sometimes smoothly, but what you read is never complete because the bus must move on.

In March 2015, the Power of Nutrition website went live and is a new innovative financing facility dedicated to unlocking up to $1 billion of new private and public financing to improve child nutrition. The Power of Nutrition is a partnership of investors and implementers committed…

In October 2014, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) shared results from a data collection and analysis pilot project with the Government of Tajikistan. Given the success of the project, FAO has been requested by Tajikistan’s Agency of Statistics to provide further assistance by training…

Read the March 2015 Update for news from SUN Countries and around the Movement. ENGLISH | FRENCH | ESPAÑOL

From the 3rd to 6th March 2015, REACH staff from fifteen countries and members of the REACH Secretariat came together in Rome for their annual gathering to share experiences and refine strategic directions for the future. Updates on the REACH analytical toolkit – including the SUN…

Read the February 2015 Update for news from SUN Countries and around the Movement. ENGLISH | FRENCH | ESPAÑOL

The ACTION global health advocacy partnership will host a public speaking and media skills training for nutrition advocates working in countries with high burdens of malnutrition and are calling for applications now! The training will be held from June 2nd to 5th 2015. ACTION will support…

On the 23rd March, the Seventh African Task Force on Food and Nutrition Development (ATTFND) was organised by the African Union (AU) and held in Johannesburg, South Africa. Participants included representatives from multiple stakeholder groups including the United Nations, Civil Society and Academia. Delivering the…

On 12th February 2015, the Malawian Parliament passed the Marriage, Divorce and Family Relations bill which increases the legal age of marriage to 18. Previously, girls in Malawi were allowed to marry at 16 or, with parental consent, at 15. In addition to the new minimum…

On the 3rd of March 2015, the SUN Movement Network Facilitators participated in their regular monthly conference call organized by Christine Campeau of the SUN Movement Secretariat. The UN Network provided highlights from a recent two-day conference. During the conference, participants consolidated their responses to…

A new report published by Save the Children in March 2015 focuses on Policy and Programming in SUN Countries for adolescent nutrition. The aim of the report is to share experiences from different countries about types of approaches used and challenges faced when addressing adolescent…

On 11 March 2015, a workshop was held in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire, to develop a communication strategy on good nutrition behaviours. The event was organised by the National Nutrition Program Coordinators with USAID. Director of the National Nutrition Programme (Pnn), Dr Patricia N’Goran, who is also the SUN…

A new study published in The Lancet Global Health in March 2015, associates breastfeeding with improved performance in intelligence tests 30 years later. The population-based birth cohort study of neonates was launched in 1982 in Brazil and gathered information from 3,493 participants. The findings conclude…

On the 3rd March 2015, multiple stakeholders came together with the Government of Cambodia for a National Conference on Nutrition. The two day event organised by the Council for Agricultural and Rural Development, USAID Cambodia, UNICEF Cambodia, FAO Cambodia, and WFP Cambodia brought together over…