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

In July 2013, a two day online discussion, entitled ‘Addressing Undernutrition in Nigeria: What Next?’, was facilitated by the Institute of Development Studies, UK, on the Eldis Communities web platform. A briefing note was drafted that reflects the views of 33 participants working on nutrition-related…

Through the SUN Donor Network, a small group has been working together to develop a common methodology to increase accountability and improve the tracking of external development assistance resources aimed at addressing undernutrition. Improved tracking of donor spending on nutrition is important, not only for…

Throughout November and December 2013, the SUN civil society alliance in Uganda has been very busy coordinating renewed efforts to end the preventable newborn and child deaths, participating in Uganda’s first annual nutrition forum, supporting the organization of the ‘Run for Good Nutrition Marathon’ as…

PATH is awarding grants to civil society organizations to improve maternal and child nutrition. The grants are part of the four-year Nutrition Embedding Evaluation Programme (NEEP), funded by the UK Department for International Development, to generate evidence on best ways to address undernutrition with a…

From the 1st to 4th December 2013, a large delegation of senior donor officials visited Zambia to look at the current state of nutrition in the country and government’s progress to scale up nutrition interventions. The officials are members of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN)…

The most recent SUN Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF) call for proposal under the fund’s ‘window 2’ (which supports civil society organization alliances) closed on November 11, 2013. On 27 November, members of the SUN Movement MPTF Management Committee met to review the proposals. Altogether 83…

The new guidelines provide global, evidence-informed recommendations on a number of specific issues related to the management of severe acute malnutrition in infants and children, including in the context of HIV.