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The rapid spread of COVID-19 and efforts to contain it are generating growing concerns that food insecurity, malnutrition, and poverty may escalate, particularly among marginalized people in the developing world. To build more resilient, climate-smart, and healthy food systems that help people withstand these types…

Nearly 1.5 billion children – more than half of the world’s student population – are being kept away from school due to pandemic response measures. Nationwide school closures are in force in more than 180 countries while in many others there are localized closures which…

Among the measures taken by the Governments of many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean in the face of the rapid expansion of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is the closure of schools and, therefore, the suspension of school feeding programs. These programs currently…

* Originally published by Nutrition International The 2020 Great Ethiopian Run brought together more than 15,000 participants for the Women First 5KM Road Race in Addis Ababa. This year’s event was themed around the “With Good Nutrition She’ll Grow Into It” campaign, highlighting the important role nutrition…

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…