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The humanitarian crisis in the Central Sahel region of Africa is spiralling out of control – with more than 5 million people facing severe food insecurity across the region, according to a new joint food security assessment released by food security partners including the United…

The UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank inter-agency team update the joint global and regional estimates of malnutrition among children under 5 years of age each year. These estimates of prevalence and numbers affected for child stunting, overweight, wasting and severe wasting are derived for…

Upcoming negotiations at the Committee on World Food Security to finalize the Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems for Nutrition UPDATE: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the process to develop the Voluntary Guidelines for Food Systems and Nutrition will continue virtually and the official negotiations…

At the invitation of the Ministry of Economy and Industry, which hosts the SUN Focal Point, the coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition or SUN Movement recently made a visit to Mauritania. The aim of the visit, which took place from 3 to 4 March,…

Trust, transparency, and accountability are core values of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement. Since the inception of the SUN Movement, we have been working to strengthen processes to better track nutrition-specific and sensitive investments to ensure that all investments in nutrition are effectively spent…

Harnessing national reforms to advance nutrition: a SUN Movement Pooled Fund success story in Nepal As the fifth country to join the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement, the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal has continuously shown its commitment to end malnutrition in all its forms…

By Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Alliance Philippines (SUNCSAPh) Delegates of the SUN CSA PH General Assembly from 55 Civil Society Organization Right before the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic grew to an alarming rate in the Philippines, 110 delegates representing 55 civil society organizations gathered…

UN launches USD2 billion global humanitarian response to fight COVID-19 in 51 countries across South America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia NEW YORK, 25 March 2020 – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today launched a $2 billion coordinated global humanitarian response plan to fight COVID-19 in…

* Originally published by the SUN Business Network The Lishe Accelerator, launched in 2018, is a programme aimed at accelerating Tanzania’s nutrition sensitive SMEs through business development and investor readiness training. The second edition of the competition, organised by the SUN Business Network Tanzania, GAIN and Sahara Ventures ran from…

The International Fund for Agricultural Development of the United Nations (IFAD) announced support for a new programme to increase incomes, improve food and nutrition security and build the resilience of at least 902,500 rural Mozambican farmers, in one of the African countries most affected by…

Dear colleagues, I would like to send you my best wishes at this difficult time. The spread of the COVID-19 virus is having unprecedented effects. People have lost loved ones and fear for their families. At the same time this crisis has changed the way…

Nourishing people and planet alike: a conversation with chefs about the role we should play in the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals By Gerda Verburg, Coordinator, Scaling up Nutrition (SUN) Movement & UN Assistant Secretary-General As Coordinator of the SUN Movement, I am a proud…

Eight rural schools in Osh and Jalal-Abad provinces have been able to start serving daily hot meals to some 4,000 primary school students, thanks to funding from Japan, technical support from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and local implementing partner, the Training and…