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On 30th November 2014, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) Director General, José Graziano da Silva honored the achievements of thirteen countries for their progress in fighting hunger. SUN countries Cameroon, Ethiopia, the Gambia, Mauritania and the Philippines were among those awarded with diplomas at FAO…

On 8 December 2014, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) released a report on “The Emerging Global Health Crisis: Non-Communicable Diseases in Low-and-Middle-Income Countries”. The report identifies that rates of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in low- and middle-income countries are increasing…

Read the November 2014 Update for news from SUN Countries and around the Movement. ENGLISH | FRENCH | ESPAÑOL

From the 9th – 11th December 2014, the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) held its 7th International Development Conference in Islamabad, Pakistan. The event was organised by SDPI together with FAO, IFAD and WFP and was titled “Pathways to Sustainable Development”. The conference brings together…

In early December 2014, following the Second International Conference on Nutrition, the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN) finalised a Policy Brief and Technical Note on “Nutrition and the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals”. The UNSCN recognises that explicit attention to nutrition is needed across the Sustainable Development…

From the 3 to 4 December 2014, Over 60 participants came together for the Enhanced Learning Exercise on the Prevention and Management of Conflicts of Interest in the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement, hosted by Indonesia at the DoubleTree for Hilton Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia. Multi-stakeholder…

Consultations are underway on the setting up of a Global Financing Facility (GFF) to mobilize support for plans to accelerate progress on the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and bring an end to preventable maternal and child deaths by 2030. The deadline to contribute is…

At the end of 2013, two sets of media products were developed by the Directorate of Water Supply and Sanitation Coordination (DWSSC) from the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry (MAWF) in partnership with UNICEF Namibia. The project was funded by the European Union through a grant…

From 3 November 2014, the SUN Movement Secretariat held the 16th meeting of the network of SUN Country Networks. The primary theme for discussion during the meeting was “The contribution of nutrition specialists, science and academia to support scaling up nutrition”. The latest meeting involved…

On 19 November 2014, the SUN Movement Secretariat together with the European Union organised a Side Event during the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) in Rome. The purpose was to share the experiences of SUN countries as they seek to scale up nutrition and…

From 19 – 21 November 2014, the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) was held in Rome, Italy. ICN2 was a high-level intergovernmental meeting, focused on global attention to addressing malnutrition. ICN2 was jointly organised by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health…

On 17 November 2014, ahead of the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) launched a comprehensive pocketbook of nutrition related data. The pocketbook covers all regions of the world and is a pocket-sized compendium of the state…

On 19 November 2014, the Global Nutrition Report was launched at the second International Conference on Nutrition in Rome, Italy. The report is one outcome of the Nutrition for Growth Summit held in London in 2013. The authors are a group of stakeholders, chaired by representatives of…

On 26th November 2014, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was held in Kathmandu, Nepal. During the event, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed, who is also a member of the SUN Movement Lead Group, spoke to participants and urged SAARC leaders to set…

At the 2014 SUN Movement Global Gathering, SUN country pages were upgraded and the new mobile-friendly SUN website was launched. The website is an important tool for all in the SUN Movement to contribute to, and learn about each-others efforts towards scaling up nutrition. This…

At the 2014 SUN Movement Global Gathering, the SUN Movement Annual Progress (September 2014) was launched. In the opening ceremony, Tom Arnold, SUN Movement Coordinator a.i. shared a summary of the report to participants at the event. The report shares how transformations are happening in…

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” text_align=”left”][vc_column][vc_column_text custom_options=””][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text custom_options=””] Quick overview The 2017 Investment Framework for Nutrition (IFN) estimated the cost and financing needs to achieve several World Health Assembly (WHA) nutrition targets by 2025. An estimated annual investment of USD7 billion would be required over ten years…