Resources

Afghanistan Food Security and Nutrition Agenda Strategic Plan

Through a collaborative and country-led process, Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition (MQSUN+) technical assistance (TA) to Afghanistan culminated in the validation of the country’s first multisectoral strategic plan for food security and nutrition. In 2018, MQSUN+ initiated the TA to the Afghanistan Food Security and Nutrition Agenda (AFSeN-A) Secretariat for the development of […]

August 19, 2020

Yemen Multisectoral Nutrition Action Plan

Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition (MQSUN) and MQSUN+ have provided intermittent TA to Yemen since 2013 towards assessing the nutrition context and multisectoral nutrition planning and prioritisation. Through a highly collaborative and country-led process, this support culminated in the development of Yemen’s first Multisectoral Nutrition Action Plan (MSNAP), as well as an associated […]

COVID-Sensitive Nutrition Marketing Messages for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in SUN Countries

In early May 2020, a survey of food system small and medium enterprises (SME) in 17 countries was conducted by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) through national Scaling Up Nutrition Business Networks (SBN), convened by GAIN, the World Food Programme, and other partners. The survey aimed to assess the impacts of the COVID-19 […]

July 20, 2020

Review of SUN Country National Nutrition Plans

As of 2020, 61 countries and four Indian states have joined the global movement for Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN). SUN countries have made major strides in bringing together stakeholders from multiple sectors to align national efforts to end malnutrition. One of the goals of the SUN Movement’s Strategy and Roadmap for 2016-2020 is having all […]

July 16, 2020

Country Briefs from the Review of SUN Country National Nutrition Plans

As of 2020, 61 countries and four Indian states have joined the global movement for Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN). SUN countries have made major strides in bringing together stakeholders from multiple sectors to align national efforts to end malnutrition. One of the goals of the SUN Movement’s Strategy and Roadmap for 2016-2020 is having all […]

Strengthening the Humanitarian-Development Nexus for Nutrition in Protracted Crises

This synthesis report is based on a desk review on ‘Strengthening the Humanitarian and Development Nexus [HDN] for Nutrition’ and four country case studies from Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Yemen conducted between 2017 and 2019. These studies respond to the recognition that protracted crises undermine the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, as meeting immediate lifesaving needs […]

June 18, 2020

Strengthening the Humanitarian-Development Nexus for Nutrition in Ethiopia

This is one of four country case studies on ‘Strengthening the Humanitarian-Development Nexus for Nutrition’. It reviews the type of nutrition programming being implemented in Ethiopia and examines the enabling environment (plans, policies, frameworks, coordination and financing) for appropriate, comprehensive and coherent nutrition programming in a context where acute and chronic nutrition coexist and both […]

Strengthening the Humanitarian-Development Nexus for Nutrition in Yemen

This case study on how to strengthen the nutritional impact of humanitarian and development assistance in Yemen offers an overview of the political, economic, humanitarian and nutrition context and explores wider efforts to strengthen the humanitarian-development nexus (HDN), before describing and analysing nutrition programmes in the country. Even before the 2015 outbreak of widespread conflict, […]

Providing technical assistance for SUN countries: Documenting the added value of Nutrition International and MQSUN+ technical assistance for Nutrition in eight SUN countries

This brief is part of a series of three briefs which aim to document technical assistance (TA) within the DFID-funded Technical Assistance for Nutrition (TAN) programme, particularly exploring best practices and lessons learned from TA provision. The first brief considered TA ways of working within the TAN project, and the second brief explores the landscape […]

May 18, 2020

An analysis of the Technical Assistance provided by TAN partners to SUN Countries

This brief is part of a series of three briefs which aim to document technical assistance (TA) within the DFID-funded Technical Assistance for Nutrition (TAN) programme, particularly exploring best practices and lessons learned from TA provision. The first brief considered TA ways of working within the TAN project and a third brief explores the value […]

April 28, 2020