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National and international experts shared recommendations and perspectives in a policy discussion on “Scaling Up Nutrition; An Urgent Call for Commitment and Multi-Sectoral Action” held at BRAC Centre yesterday. BRAC organized this roundtable in the lead-up to the Nutrition Conference in New York at the end of this month.

The results of a new Cochrane systematic review on the links between undernutrition and WASH interventions led by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine were published on 31 July.

The Uganda Civil Society Coalition on Scaling up Nutrition (UCCO-SUN) platform worked with a number of partners to commemorate the World Breastfeeding Week. The theme for Tanzania’s breastfeeding week was: “Enhancing community support for optimal breast feeding for health well nourished and HIV free generation”….

Bangladesh – The Civil Society Alliance for Scaling Up Nutrition, Bangladesh (CSA for SUN, BD) celebrated World Breastfeeding Week with the Bangladesh Government and organized a divisional seminar on 1 August 2013.

The launching of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement in Sierra Leone in 2012 underscores the importance of nutrition in the first 1000 days. The formation of the Civil Society Platform (CSP) in Sierra Leone is part of the SUN initiative to promote nutrition actions and coordinate nutrition interventions among civil society organizations (CSOs) in Sierra Leone. As part of its support to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) in commemoration of World Breastfeeding Week (WBW), the CSP in Sierra Leone supported community sensitization activities, the national launch of WBW as well as interactive radio discussions.

The 2013 World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) theme, ‘Breastfeeding Support: Close to Mothers’, highlighted the importance of breastfeeding peer counselling. This year, SUN Civil Society Alliances (CSAs) from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Uganda supported coordinated WBW actions and activities.

As part of the preparations leading up to the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), a Preparatory Technical Meeting is to be held at FAO Headquarters from 13 to 15 November 2013.

To bring issues highlighted in the new Lancet Nutriti on Series to the fore, UNICEF partnered with Save the Children International to hold a one day roundtable and launch of the 2013 Lancet Series on 29 August 2013 in Abuja, Nigeria. The round table brought together partners, key decision makers and stakeholders at the state and national level who can make decisions that will ensure the scale up of cost effective nutrition interventions.

On 1st August 2013, the Ghana Coalition of Civil Society Organizations for Scaling up Nutrition held its official launch in Accra. The coalition’s coordinator, Nana Ayim Poakwah, pledged the commitment of GHACCSSUN to mobilise the technical capacity of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to complement government’s efforts in the development of a costed nutrition plan that would end the scourge of under-nutrition in Ghana. Just weeks later, GHACCSUN organized a workshop to equip journalists with knowledge and skills on nutrition reporting.

The Zambia Civil Society Scaling-Up Nutrition Alliance (CSO-SUN Alliance) organized two radio programs in collaboration with World Vision’s Child Health Now Campaign and the National Food and Nutrition Commission (NFNC). These programmes aimed to highlight the importance of breastfeeding and establishing the environments to enable this essential practice – as major elements to addressing malnutrition.

Read the July 2013 Newsletter featuring news on progress made for scaling up nutrition.