Visualising malnutrition in the time of COVID-19
The current COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented in its reach—affecting countries across the globe in just a few short months. The necessary measures to curb the spread have caused disruptions to…
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Technical assistance takeaways from the 2019 SUN Global Gathering
The 2019 SUN Global Gathering in Kathmandu, Nepal—which took place from 4 to 7 November—highlighted a growing interest in the role that technical assistance (TA) can play to support SUN…
Fostering urban nutrition through a ‘smart city’ partnership: a perspective from the Executive Director of the Food Foundation
The Birmingham India Nutrition Initiative (BINDI) is a learning partnership between Birmingham, UK and Pune, India aimed at developing smart policies which support nutritional impact. With support from Tata Trusts,…
Mr Kone (third from left) and colleagues at the 2017 SUN Global Gathering. PATH
Looking at nutrition financing in practice: a perspective from MQSUN+’s costing consultant for Francophone African countries
Since 2012, Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition (MQSUN) and now MQSUN+ has provided technical assistance (TA) to over a dozen Francophone Scaling up Nutrition (SUN) countries—focused primarily on…
PATH/Rocky Prajapati
‘Taking the temperature’ of gender consideration in national nutrition planning to maximise efforts to improve nutrition for all
Nutritional status can be strongly impacted by gender. Socially-constructed gender roles, in conjunction with biological differences in sex and age, influence nutritional needs and status of individuals, households, communities and…
Moving beyond a theory of change—mapping assumptions toward nutrition impact (part 1)
When looking at the impact of global health investments, we often want to count the number of beneficiaries, percent reduction in disease prevalence or statistically significant associations between an intervention…
PATH/Evelyn Hockstein
Wasted opportunity? What we do know about preventing wasting
Today, over 50 million children are wasted, which comes with an elevated risk of death. Even more, wasting prevalence hasn’t declined in recent years. The United Kingdom’s Department for International…
World Food Program, Georgina Goodwin
Developing a common results framework for nutrition in Somalia
Somalia, in the Horn of Africa, has experienced changes and shifts in governance, security, development and the humanitarian environment over the past two decades. The estimated population is around 12.3…
Scaling Up Nutrition, Afghanistan
Validation process for the Afghanistan Food Security and Nutrition Multistakeholder Strategic Plan
The Afghanistan Food Security and Nutrition Agenda (AFSeN-A) Secretariat conducted a two-day workshop to secure stakeholders’ consensus on the AFSeN-A contextual analysis and stakeholder mapping through consultation and validation process…
Scaling Up Nutrition, Tajikistan
Multistakeholder high-level advocacy workshop on nutrition in Tajikistan
On June 28, the Deputy Chairperson of the Majlisi Namoyandagon of Majlisi Oli (Chamber of Representatives of the Tajik Parliament) Khairinisso Yusufi and the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Focal Point,…