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After a short courtesy visit to the governor of the Kaolack region on Tuesday morning, the expedition headed towards the rural community of Patar Lia. As they stepped off the bus, participants discovered the colorful welcome prepared by the community. In front of a welcome banner positioned at the entrance to the main square and tents to protect all of the ceremonies participants from the late morning sun, rural councilors, women and children of the rural community lined up to receive the delegation.

Something extraordinary is happening in Senegal this week. Seven countries have been invited by the Fight Against Malnutrition Unit (CLM) hosted by the Office of the Prime Minister to see first-hand how Senegal is scaling up nutrition. Representatives of government and civil society from Benin, Burundi, Ghana, Guinea, Niger, Sierra Leone and Peru are spending the next few days together, forging new relationships and accelerating their own understanding of nutrition by sharing critical insights to the most practical questions.

Peru is currently considered a world reference in its fight against CCM: from 2007 to 2013, CCM has been reduced from 28.5% to 17.5% in children under five. First results show that CCM would be reduced to about 14% in 2014. Peru is honored to have been selected as host country to implement the second SUN Learning Route, which is counting with the presence of SUN member countries delegations from Lao PDR, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Tanzania, Senegal, Guatemala and El Salvador.

With children, we have the most valuable opportunity to study their development of logical thinking, mathematics, physics and other areas. This is the reason that I feel it has been so necessary and timely to create a Learning Route, focusing on exchanging knowledge and experiences, which become very creative tools enabling the different SUN countries to expand their capacities, with innovative methods that each region has to overcome chronic child malnutrition.

I would like to share with you my Learning Route experience in Peru. It is a wonderful experience to me coming all the way from Tanzania travelling over 20 hrs to come to Lima to learn and share experience on how we do scaling up nutrition. In the first four days of my experience in Peru I have learned that achievements never come over night. Peru has come a long way to be where it is now in terms of eliminating Chronic Child Malnutrition (CCM) since 2007.

Once again, the people of Peru have astonished the world by providing a new legacy, this time by successfully addressing a problem that our nations have had historically, which is chronic child malnutrition, a scourge condemning our people to poverty and underdevelopment.

On behalf of the Lao delegates I would like to sincerely thanks to MIDIS, SUN movement Secretariat, and PROCASUR for conducting, hosting, and giving us the opportunity for taking part in the Learning Route in Peru. The successful reduction of malnutrition in Peru is significant, this is an inspiration and tells us that multi-sectoral coordination and implementation is very well known.

At the beginning of 2015, Peru saw many advancements towards scaling up nutrition. These include the milestone launch of “Bienvenidos a la Vida” (Welcome to Life), a national plan to improve newborn health across the nation. The First Lady of Peru, Nadine Heredia, who is…

In October 2014, the SUN Civil Society Alliance for Zambia (CSO-SUN) launched a 6 minute documentary “When children have children”, to raise awareness for the consequences of teenage pregnancies and its impact on the nutrition of children. The documentary was made with the support of DFID, CARE and…

On the 27th January 2015, a Scaling-Up Nutrition Coordination workshop was organised by the Prime Minister’s Office in Mbeya, Tanzania. The workshop brought together participants from Regional Administration, Local Government Authorities (PMORALG), the Tanzania Food and Nutrition Center and the Donor and UN networks. During…

In the lead up to presidential elections on 20th January 2015, the civil society alliance for scaling up nutrition in Zambia (CSOSUN) launched the Vote Nutrition campaign. The campaign drew attention to the importance of nutrition with six award winning musicians who collaborated to create a jingle…

On the 9th January 2015, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly unanimously passed “Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Protection of Breastfeeding and Child Nutrition Act 2015”. This law for one of Pakistan’s four provinces, makes the manufacturers of formula milk bound to seek permission for marketing and sale of their…

Dear colleagues, In 2014 we welcomed nine more countries into the SUN Movement. Hundreds more organizations and thousands more individuals have been inspired by the commitments made by governments to scale up nutrition, to end malnutrition in all its forms and to work together to realise the rights of all to nutrition justice.

On the 15th January 2015, Action2015 was launched across the globe, over 1,000 organisations are uniting their focus on making 2015 a huge breakthrough moment for development. Physical and online events marked the occasion to create a common platform for all voices to be heard…

On the 23rd December 2014, The National Nutrition Agency (NaNA) and the World Food Programme (WFP) validated two reports on studies conducted in the Central River Region and the North Bank Region of The Gambia. NaNA was contracted by WFP to undertake both projects which…

Throughout January 2015, mobilization and awareness workshops on nutrition governance were by the Civil society Alliance in three regions of Senegal. During the occasions, the three regions; Ziguinchor, Sédhiou et Kolda, were also able to officially announce the creation of regional committees for the Civil…

On the 17th January 2015, the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) began in venues across Equatorial Guinea. Sixteen teams across Africa are involved in the tournament including SUN countries Mozambique, Mali, Nigeria, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso, Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Buruni, DR Congo and Mauritania. The “African…

On the 20th January 2014, a conference was held in New Delhi India as part of the Generation Nutrition Campaign. The event was titled “Acute Malnutrition – An Everyday Emergency”. Vandana Krishna, Director General of Maharashtra’s successful Rajmata Jijau Mother – Child Health and Nutrition…