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On the 29th January 2015, a workshop was held to introduce the third phase of implementation of the Stimulus Fund Performance and Achievement of Social Results (EDF). Participants included representatives from nine regional governments and Ariela Luna Florez, Deputy Minister of Social Policy and Evaluation, Ministry of Development and Social…

On the 22nd January 2015, the SUN Business Network organised a Breakfast focused on Creating a Sustainable Food System in the Post-2015 Agenda at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The event was co-hosted by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), the World Food Programme (WFP),…

On the 18th January 2015, the 31st National Scientific Conference was held in Makuri, organised by the Association of Public Health Physicians of Nigeria (APHPN). The lead presenters included Chris Osa Isokpunwu, Deputy Director and Head of Nutrition Division and the SUN Government Focal Point from…

Wednesday, 29 October Addis, Intercontental Hotel, early in the morning, Say hello to everybody, old and new colleagues from embassies and The Hague, still at the breakfast table. Everybody gets into the bus. Simone and Herman S., cheerful facilitators, in front. Nani and I sit down on the second row behind Tina, our tour manager. Bus starts rolling.

The Learning Route in Senegal has been an opportunity to share experiences and lessons learned in relation to nutrition policy with other members of the SUN Movement. The Route aimed to understand the strategies and tools promoted by Senegal to achieve impressive results in reducing chronic malnutrition from 27 to 19 percent in children under 5 years, during the last two years.

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.