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This funding will support a project which proposes the setting up of a strong, sustainable, influential and prominent Civil Society Organisations’ (CSO) Alliance who will pay a significant role in supporting the promotion and implementation of nutrition interventions for the enhancement of the nutrition agenda for Malawi.

Budget Transparency and Child Nutrition is a new report that presents the results of a study conducted in Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. This study sets out to establish the degree of budget transparency in five African countries in relation to one critical issue: child nutrition.

In July 2013, Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, produced a new report entitled Gender Equality and Food Security as part of a joint undertaking between the Asia Development Bank and the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. This publication analyzes gender inequalities that constrain women’s roles in agriculture and food production, and in the long run undermine achievement of food and nutrition security in the Asia and Pacific region.

On 3 July 2013, representatives from government, civil society, the UN system and donors came together to officially launch the SUN Movement in Niger. As part of the event, endorsement was secured to establish a multi-sectoral committee within the 3N initiative.

Zambia is the next in the Institute for Development Studies series of country-focused collections of papers on undernutrition. The series has generated the IDS Bulletins on India (2009 and 2012), Pakistan (2013) and now Zambia (2014). As with the others in the series, the Zambia collection highlights contributions from national researchers, practitioners and policymakers living in Zambia.

On 18 July, Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza formally launched the SUN Movement in Burundi and announced the adoption by the Council of Ministers of the terms of reference of the Multisectoral Platform Nutrition and Food Security or Plateforme Multisectorielle de Sécurité Alimentaire et de Nutrition (PMSAN), which will be under the coordination of the Second Vice-President of the Republic.

Budget Transparency and Child Nutrition is a new report that presents the results of a study conducted in Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. This study sets out to establish the degree of budget transparency in five African countries in relation to one critical issue: child nutrition.

On 3 July, Heads of State and Government of African Union Member States, together with representatives of international organizations, civil society organizations, private sector, cooperatives, farmers, youths, academia and other partners unanimously adopted a Declaration to end hunger in Africa by 2025.

On 20th June, the Emergency Nutrition Network published the latest issue of its Nutrition Exchange (NEX). Each issue of Nutrition Exchange contains original articles from national level readers sharing their programming experiences in nutrition. It also includes summarised information from ENN’s flagship publication, Field Exchange, updated information on guidelines, tools and training as well as summaries of recent publications and research.

June 2013 was an important month for nutrition. Leaders from across the world came together in a series of events and made a collective commitment “to end the scourge of under-nutrition within our lifetime.” They shared ground-breaking new evidence, committed to policy and institutional changes, and pledged to substantially increase resources for nutrition. As we move into July, David Nabarro, SUN Movement Coordinator, writes on the implications of June 2013 for the SUN Movement and current priorities of the Movement’s Secretariat.

The unified global efforts to mitigate the high burden of vitamin and mineral deficiency, known as hidden hunger, in populations around the world are crucial to the achievement of most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The Hidden Hunger Index was developed in consultation with high-level scientists, academics and decision makers from a range of global institutions, including UN agencies, U.S. government agencies, universities and international NGOs.

Ethiopia loses around 16.5 per cent of its GDP each year to the long-term effects of child malnutrition. That’s just one of the statistics to emerge from “The Cost of Hunger in Africa” study which measures the economic impact of malnutrition in 12 different countries.

[THE GUARDIAN] – Nutrition treatments have made huge developments in the past few years. The advent of highly nutritious ready-to-use therapeutic foods [RUTF] have made it possible to save millions of children from the severest forms of malnutrition. Malnutrition can be triggered or worsened by illness; and illness can weaken immune system and easily kill a malnourished child. So to prevent malnutrition, it will take not only nutritious food, but also attention to a child’s general state of health.