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Renewed Partnership for a Unified Approach to end Hunger in Africa by 2025 within the CAADP Framework

On 3 July, Heads of State and Government of African Union Member States, together with representatives of international organizations, civil society organizations, private sector, cooperatives, farmers, youths, academia and other partners unanimously adopted a Declaration to end hunger in Africa by 2025.
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Publication date: TUE, 30 JUL, 2013
RESOURCE / Technical reports and research

The cost of hunger in Uganda - summary report

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Publication date: THU, 18 JUL, 2013
RESOURCE / Technical reports and research

The Cost of Hunger in Swaziland

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Publication date: THU, 18 JUL, 2013
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Third Edition of the Emergency Nutrition Network’s Nutrition Exchange (NEX) Published in June 2013

On 20th June, the Emergency Nutrition Network published the latest issue of its Nutrition Exchange (NEX). Each issue of Nutrition Exchange contains original articles from national level readers sharing their programming experiences in nutrition. It also includes summarised information from ENN’s flagship publication, Field Exchange, updated information on guidelines, tools and training as well as summaries of recent publications and research.
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Publication date: THU, 11 JUL, 2013
RESOURCE / National plans

Ethiopia - National Nutrition Programme 2013-2015

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Publication date: THU, 11 JUL, 2013
RESOURCE / Briefs/ fact sheets

SIERRA LEONE call for commitments for nutrition

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Publication date: TUE, 9 JUL, 2013
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SUN Movement June Update: Letter from David Nabarro

June 2013 was an important month for nutrition. Leaders from across the world came together in a series of events and made a collective commitment “to end the scourge of under-nutrition within our lifetime.” They shared ground-breaking new evidence, committed to policy and institutional changes, and pledged to substantially increase resources for nutrition. As we move into July, David Nabarro, SUN Movement Coordinator, writes on the implications of June 2013 for the SUN Movement and current priorities of the Movement’s Secretariat.
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Publication date: WED, 3 JUL, 2013
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First-of-its kind: Global Hidden Hunger Index

The unified global efforts to mitigate the high burden of vitamin and mineral deficiency, known as hidden hunger, in populations around the world are crucial to the achievement of most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The Hidden Hunger Index was developed in consultation with high-level scientists, academics and decision makers from a range of global institutions, including UN agencies, U.S. government agencies, universities and international NGOs.
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Publication date: WED, 3 JUL, 2013
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Cost of Hunger Study Ethiopia

Ethiopia loses around 16.5 per cent of its GDP each year to the long-term effects of child malnutrition. That’s just one of the statistics to emerge from “The Cost of Hunger in Africa” study which measures the economic impact of malnutrition in 12 different countries.
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Publication date: WED, 3 JUL, 2013
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Marie-Pierre Allié: Follow the Niger and Mali Models to Tackle Malnutrition

[THE GUARDIAN] – Nutrition treatments have made huge developments in the past few years. The advent of highly nutritious ready-to-use therapeutic foods [RUTF] have made it possible to save millions of children from the severest forms of malnutrition. Malnutrition can be triggered or worsened by illness; and illness can weaken immune system and easily kill a malnourished child. So to prevent malnutrition, it will take not only nutritious food, but also attention to a child’s general state of health.
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Publication date: WED, 3 JUL, 2013
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Guatemala: Civil Society Awarded $428,000 to Strengthen Scaling Up Nutrition

Guatemala’s Zero Hunger Pact establishes an ambitious goal of reducing child malnutrition by 10% in the next years until 2016. This project seeks to help achieve this target through the empowerment of the affected population, through inter-sectoral coordination and through social audit.
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Publication date: WED, 3 JUL, 2013
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SUN Civil Society Network Receives Funding to Support Country-Level Activities

The SUN Civil Society Network has just been awarded $535,000 USD to support civil society in SUN countries to help secure nutrition a place at the top of the national agenda as well as to strengthen nutrition governance and government accountability through enhanced multi-stakeholder dialogue.
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Publication date: WED, 3 JUL, 2013
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Civil Society Network Inaugural Meeting Delegates Sign On to Declaration of Support for Scaling Up Nutrition

On 11 June 2013, the SUN Civil Society Network held its inaugural meeting in Washington DC. Sixty-six civil society actors from 32 countries gathered to define priorities for the SUN Civil Society Network and resulted in a declaration reaffirming civil society’s commitment to support national efforts to scale up nutrition.
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Publication date: WED, 3 JUL, 2013
RESOURCE / Briefs/ fact sheets

SUN Civil Society Network Six Month Activity Plan: July – December 2013

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Publication date: MON, 1 JUL, 2013
RESOURCE / SUN Progress Reports

SUN Progress Report 2013

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Publication date: MON, 1 JUL, 2013
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Atlanta Summit on Global Health and Hunger: Progress and Enduring Challenges in Global Food and Nutrition Security

On 20 May 2013, the World Affairs Council of Atlanta and CARE USA joined with the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies to host the Atlanta Summit on Global Health and Hunger, an event inspired by the success of the 2012 Atlanta Summit on Global Health and Water. Over the course the daylong symposium, experts and opinion leaders from government, business, academia, and NGOs came together to look at progress and enduring challenges in global food and nutrition security and to craft solutions for global hunger and malnutrition.
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Publication date: THU, 27 JUN, 2013
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Uganda’s Cost of Hunger Study Findings Unveil The Economic Impact of Malnutrition

KAMPALA, 20 June 2013 (IRIN) – Malnutrition costs Uganda an estimated US$899 million annually – as much as 5.6 percent of its GDP – according to findings of a new report.
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Publication date: MON, 24 JUN, 2013
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Launch of the Amsterdam Initiative Against Malnutrition: Innovative Models for Better Nutrition

On 22 May 2013, a new multi-stakeholder partnership between the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a consortium of partners from the Amsterdam Initiative against Malnutrition (AIM) was launched in The Hague. AIM is a Dutch alliance of businesses, government, academic and non-governmental organizations that was initiated in 2010.
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Publication date: MON, 24 JUN, 2013
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Sierra Leone Gathers Stakeholders to Discuss Critical Next Steps for Scaling Up Nutrition

Excerpt from press release: The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Programme based in the Office of the Vice President has held its first meeting since the appointment of the National Coordinator to discuss pertinent issues for moving the Secretariat forward within the first 100 days, starting in June and ending in August.
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Publication date: MON, 24 JUN, 2013
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FAO Releases 2013 State of Food and Agriculture: Food Systems for Better Nutrition

4th June: In a recorded statement marking the launch of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s flagship annual publication The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA),Graziano da Silva said that although the world has registered some progress on hunger, one form of malnutrition, there was still “a long way ahead”.
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Publication date: MON, 24 JUN, 2013