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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…
Experiencing the SUN Global Gathering: A perspective from the MQSUN+ Lead for SUN Technical Assistance
The flagship event for the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement—the SUN Global Gathering—is a multi-day convening of SUN Focal Points as well as other government representatives, international non-governmental organisations, donors…
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,…
Strengthening functional capacity in action: Enhancing the skills of country Focal Points to support multisectoral nutrition efforts
Since 2017, Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition Plus (MQSUN+), in collaboration with the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Secretariat (SMS), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and…
Analysing national budgets for nutrition: The role of technical assistance to build country capacity for nutrition financing
Conducting a budget analysis allows a country to take stock of their nutrition financing at the national level, which can help them more effectively plan for the utilisation of existing…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…