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INTRAC’s is offering a course that will support practitioners to ensure monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is integrated into both planning advocacy initiatives and feeding into organisational learning and accountability. The course will focus on a variety of practical ways to meet the challenges of…

On 13 March 2014, the Republic of Costa Rica became the 50th country to commit to scaling up nutrition with the SUN Movement. The government has been making efforts to improve the health of the population through strengthening nutrition programs and surveillance systems nationwide. This…

On 12 March 2014, the Republic of Guinea-Bissau became the 49th country to commit to scaling up nutrition with the SUN Movement. The government has adopted a national nutrition policy and will establish a multi-sectoral coordination framework for enhancing the synergy of all stakeholders in order…

This annual report focuses on the advances made by the 41 countries in the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement; countries that have committed to improve nutrition for millions of children and their mothers. It examines the benefits of investing in improved nutrition, the evidence that…

On 11 March 2014, the Republic of Togo became the 48th country to commit to scaling up nutrition with the SUN Movement. The leadership of Togo is committed to addressing the issue of high child mortality rates caused by malnutrition. In addition to their efforts…

Over the past couple of years, Civil Society has played an important role in contributing to national efforts towards scaling up nutrition in SUN countries. As of February 2014, 47 countries had joined the SUN movement and, of those, 29 countries have seen the formation and…

MALAWI NEWS AGENCY 17 MARCH 2014: Government has appealed to nutritionists in the country to take a leading role in implementing nutritional programmes with the aim of achieving a free malnutrition Malawi. Principal Secretary(PS) in the Department of Nutrition HIV and AIDs in the Office…

ALL AFRICA, 6 MARCH 2014: The Government of Rwanda and the European Union have signed a financing agreement worth €30 million (Frw 28 billion) that will support the country’s goal of eliminating malnutrition. The funds will support Rwanda’s multi-sector strategy to eliminate malnutrition, emphasizing in…

Lawrence Haddad, Director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) reports about the double burden of nutrition following a review IDS and Monash University produced for the Government of Australia. Countries of South east Asia and the Pacific are facing some of the highest under…

The three day Food and Nutrition Summit, starting 18 February 2014, brought together over 350 delegates and was focused on the importance of the first 1000 days. The summit also released the report “cost of hunger” which reveals that undernutrition in Rwanda costs the country…

This article tells a story about a woman in Rwanda and how she has learned from a Global Communities-led program and become an inspirational leader. She proudly announces that through community efforts, malnutrition has been wiped out in her neighborhood. Read more here

The Government of Tanzania and the SUN Business Network, launched a multi-stakeholder consultation process (January, 15th 2014) to integrate business into Tanzania’s National Nutrition Strategy (NNS). 100 representatives of business, media, NGO, UN agencies, and development partners attended, including over 60 companies, all national business,…

Over 60 leaders from civil society, governments, UN agencies and business gathered for the launch of the SUN Business Network at the World Economic Forum 2014 in January 2014 to recommend ways to engage more businesses in the SUN Business Network. The session was led…

Read the February 2014 Update for news from SUN Countries and around the Movement.

Two separate briefing series are being produced to describe how different parts of the SUN Movement are working and the experience of SUN countries. Scaling Up Nutrition in Practice This series presents the real-life experience of SUN countries. The first edition focuses on multi-stakeholder engagement…