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The economic impact of malnutrition, overweight and obesity in El Salvador – also known as the double burden of malnutrition – totalled 2,559 million dollars in 2017. This is equivalent to 10.3 per cent of GDP, according to a report published by ECLAC and WFP….

Long believed to be a problem exclusive to high-income countries, evidence shows that over 70 percent of the world’s 2 billion overweight and obese individuals live in low- or middle-income countries. Faced with increasing disability, mortality, health care costs, and lower productivity, obesity is a…

* Originally published by SUN Business Network In 2013, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar joined the SUN Movement and established the Multi-Stakeholder Platform, which is implemented by the National Nutrition Centre (NNC) in the Department of Public Health and UNICEF, with the support of other…

Enabling young children to achieve their full developmental potential is a human right and an essential requisite for sustainable development. Given the critical importance of enabling children to make the best start in life, the health sector, among other sectors, has an important role and responsibility to…

On February 2020, Martin Chungong, Secretary-General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and member of the SUN Movement Lead Group, sent a letter to the Speakers of Parliament of all 179 IPU member countries encouraging them to take an active role in ending all forms of…

The three United Nations’ Rome-based agencies dedicated to food and agriculture called for bolder action to achieve gender equality and empower women and girls in the agricultural sector and beyond Securing sustainable global food systems is only possible if women everywhere are empowered and their…

The National Nutrition Centre of the Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health and Sports and UNICEF presented Frameworks of Action for Complementary Feeding and Maternal Nutrition at an event that included participants from several ministries including the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation, Ministry…

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in the Kyrgyz Republic presented the results of a large-scale assessment of “Filling the nutrient gap” based on estimates of the cost of diets. The Deputy Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic for Social Affairs Altynay Omurbekova, representatives…

* Written by Alina Meyer and originally published by Nutrition International Nutrition International and the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement (SUN) Secretariat co-hosted the 2019 SUN Global Gathering’s gender workshop, entitled “Productive, not just reproductive! The power of gender equality and empowering women and girls to scale…

The SUN Movement welcomes the three new SUN Country Focal Points on board of the SUN Movement Executive Committee: Dr. Cecilia Gamboa from Costa Rica; Dr. Azucena Dayanghirang from the Philippines; and Dr. Kiran Rupakethee from Nepal. The participation of SUN country voices in the Executive…

Guatemala launched one of President Alejandro Giammattei’s most significant projects in January: its Grand National Crusade for Nutrition. It will focus on detecting cases of malnutrition in 114 priority municipalities in order to eliminate this scourge from the population. The priority focus will be on…

Foreword to the SUN Business Network Independent Evaluation (2019). By Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and Lauren Landis, Director of Nutrition, World Food Programme (WFP). * Originally published by the SUN Business Network In 2017, the SUN Business Network (SBN) formalised its theory of…

The Inter-Agency Task Force on Zero Hunger will create a ‘National Food Policy’ that will outline the government’s priorities and map efforts to achieve zero hunger. To free more Filipinos from hunger and achieve food security, President Rodrigo Duterte has created an inter-agency task force on…