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The Chair of the SUN Lead Group, Mr. Anthony Lake, met with the President Molina during a recent visit to Guatemala. Mr. Lake praised the Government’s initiative to reduce stunting by 10 per cent over the next four years to 39% by 2015.

In February 2012, the World Bank and The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) jointly developed a report to calculate the potential human and economic benefits to be gained from increasing nutrition investments in Tajikistan. This report provides compelling evidence of the potential to improve health and…

On 26 February 2013, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and DSM co-convened a call with business leaders for a discussion about the role of nutrition and the private sector in the Post-2015 UN development agenda consultation.

(The Daily Observer) – The National Nutrition Agency (NaNA) and stakeholders Tuesday discussed the final report of the National Nutrition Survey using the Standardised Monitoring and Assessment of Relief and Transition (SMART) method. The conclave, which brought together 37 participants, studied and analysed the report which covered the assessment of the nutritional status of children under five years.

Mozambique has seen economic growth between seven and eight percent during the last two decades, yet over half the population continues to live below the poverty line. Rates of stunting and chronic malnutrition among Mozambican children have shifted little in the past decade, falling from 48 percent in 2003 to 43 percent today.

European Development Commissioner and SUN Lead Group Member Andris Piebalgs and Director General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Jose Graziano da Silva made a join visit to Malawi, where they met with President Joyce Banda to discuss their commitment to providing assistance to the country in combating malnutrition and food insecurity.

A two-day conference in Brussels brought together representatives from SUN countries, donors, UN agencies, civil society, academia and the business community to ensure that nutrition remains at the top of the international development agenda.

SUN Movement Lead Group Member Ms Helene Gayle and Benin Government Focal Point Jean Tossa brief partners and the media on the importance of nutrition and the SUN Movement.

Read the full February 2013 Update featuring news on progress made in SUN countries.

An update on progress to date on efforts underway to estimate the overall cost of scaling up nutrition in SUN countries now available.

Business leaders will be holding a discussion that will feed in to the Post-2015 UN development agenda consultation led by the UN High Level Panel on Post-2015 Development. The discussion will focus on how nutrition should be prioritized in the Post-2015 UN development agenda, and the ways in which the private sector can effectively engage in the new framework to help end malnutrition.

National Civil Society Platforms in Ghana and Mali have recently been awarded $375,000 each through the SUN Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF).

On 31 January 2013, Mali held an official launch to showcase its activities with UN REACH and the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement as well as to raise awareness on the multi-sectoral aspects of nutrition.

Economic arguments for scaling up nutrition are compelling but what will it cost?

Launch September 2015: The fourth Scaling Up Nutrition: In Practice brief focuses on how agriculture, food systems and social protection schemes are contributing to scaling up nutrition in SUN Countries. PDF English | Français | EspañolPortuguês | РУССКИЙ | العربية

Illustrating the high-level national political commitment for scaling up nutrition, 13 Governors representing all regions in Namibia met in Windhoek in August 2011 at the invitation of Prime Minister Angula, to build awareness about the nutrition situation in the country and all the respective regions. The regional Governors were galvanized into action and at the close of the meeting all 13 participants signed the Declaration of Commitment pledging their support to scale up nutrition.