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A story by: Asma Afrin Haque, Monitoring & Quality Assurance Specialist, SUN Movement Pooled Fund Adolescence is a critical time of life, where both physical and psycho-social changes occur, and where many learned behaviours take root in an individual’s life-long health. Adolescents may seem like…

Capacity strengthening is a central area to accelerate multi-sectoral nutrition actions at national and sub-national levels. This also rings true for scaling up gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls across the SUN Movement. Nutrition International’s Nutrition Technical Assistance Mechanism (NTEAM), through the…

UNICEF and WFP warn that more than 1 in 3 health districts in the country are now on alert for a child malnutrition crisis due to recent violence At least 24,000 children under five across 14 of the Central African Republic’s 35 health districts are…

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has begun to convene a coalition of stakeholders to support governments to restore and boost access to school feeding for the most vulnerable children. At the request of the African Union and member states such as Finland and…

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Department of Nutrition, HIV and AIDS in the Ministry of Health welcomed a timely contribution of EUR 550,000 (about 515 million Malawi Kwacha) from the Government of Ireland to support interventions that prevent malnutrition in Malawi….

The COVID-19 pandemic risks reversing a decade of hard-won gains in global efforts to provide nutritious food to the world’s most vulnerable children through a free daily meal in school, the United Nations World Food Programme said in a its new report released. One in…

* Originally published by the SUN Business Network Since joining the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement in 2012, the People’s Republic of Bangladesh has been resolutely committed to addressing the nutritional needs of their population. Now, with 137 private sector members and a dynamic, enthusiastic…

Hunger and famine will persist and there will be unequal recovery from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic unless more women in rural and urban areas hold leadership positions with increased decision-making power, say the heads of the three United Nations’ food agencies ahead of…

Ethiopia, an exemplar in stunting reduction,[1] joined the SUN Movement in 2012 and announced the Seqota Declaration in 2015, which is a high-level commitment to end childhood stunting and undernutrition by 2030. Nutrition International, a key SUN Movement partner, has worked to foster gender equality…

Oluwaseun Sangoleye’s Baby Grubz: An award-winning business plan for tackling child undernutrition in Nigeria * Originally posted by the SUN Business Network In 2013, Nigerian agri-entrepreneur Oluwaseun Sangoleye founded Baby Grubz, a food company that manufactures complementary baby and infant food products. This year, on 30…

Better Nutrition = Greater Equality & more Equality = Better Nutrition Nutrition and gender are intimately interconnected. Women and girls make up 60% of all undernourished people globally. Poor nutrition compounds existing barriers and presents new hurdles for women and girls as they look to…

The Global Health 50/50 Report, now in its fourth year, reviews the gender-related policies and practices of 201 organisations aiming to promote health and/or influence global health policy. Following a few years as ‘high’ performers in this area, in 2021, the SUN Movement rises to the top five per cent of global organisations striving for better health for all.

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” text_align=”left”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”36731″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes”][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text custom_options=””] Winning the race to end malnutrition in all its forms by 2030 requires transforming health, food, and social protection systems to deliver better health, nutrition, and diets. Structural and systemic changes in food systems are needed…

The Board of Directors of the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament (PARLATINO) unanimously approved the first Model Law on Climate Change and Food and Nutrition Security (SAN). It is an instrument that establishes a legal framework of reference to inspire national laws, which will allow…

The Strategy for SUN (2021-2025), adopted by the SUN Movement Lead Group in December 2020, sets out an ambitious vision to align global efforts to scale up nutrition behind country leadership. The Operationalisations (OPS) Group has been initiated to support the transition from SUN 2.0…

Various private companies have promised to proactively support the government efforts as they stepped up endeavors to help address involuntary hunger and malnutrition in the country. This commitment was made as the government, through the Task Force Zero Hunger and alongside its partners in the…

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” text_align=”left”][vc_column][vc_column_text custom_options=””] A blog by: Ana Sidhu*, Dolço Muchanga**, and Webster Makombe*** [/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”normal” color=”#dd9933″][vc_column_text custom_options=””] In a world that believes that the youth are leaders of tomorrow, sadly, tomorrow never comes. Webster Makombe thinks back to a time where his Uncle…