Resources

Real-Time Learning Review on Nutrition Response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) supports nutrition-related development and humanitarian projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where both acute and chronic malnutrition rates are very high. To strengthen the nutrition response in areas of greatest morbidity and mortality risk, DFID DRC requested Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition […]

April 21, 2020

Supplemental guidance for the SUN budget analysis

Since 2015, budget analysis work based on the SUN Approach has been conducted by 50 countries and has provided valuable insights into the nature of government spending allocations to nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive areas. The SUN Movement has recognised that there is a growing need to support SUN member countries through replicability and refinement of the […]

April 13, 2020

Approaches for Nutrition Costing and Financial Tracking in SUN Countries

Since 2013, Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) countries have made major strides to bring together different stakeholders from multiple sectors to align national efforts to end malnutrition. There is a growing understanding of the importance of estimating the financial costs of national nutrition programmes and tracking the financing for nutrition interventions at the country level, as […]

Prevention of child wasting: Results of a Child Health & Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) prioritisation exercise

Approximately 49.5 million children under the age of five years are wasted, and this global burden leads to loss of life, reduces the quality of life and impairs linear growth. Yet, there is a lack of robust research on effective strategies to prevent wasting. On the heels of recent Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up […]

February 17, 2020

Providing Technical Assistance for SUN Countries: Ways of Working Within the TAN Programme

The Technical Assistance for Nutrition (TAN) programme, funded with UK aid from the UK government, is a mechanism to provide technical assistance to Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) country governments and build capacities towards advancing their multisectoral nutrition agendas, in line with the SUN Movement principles and roadmap. TAN also strives to generate, learn from, adopt […]

January 10, 2020

Providing country-owned, inclusive and adaptive technical assistance to SUN countries

Technical assistance (TA) has long been used as a form of development assistance to support countries, however, its success, approach and purpose vary widely. In 2012, the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development initiated a new programme approach to provide flexible TA for nutrition policy and programming, through the Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up […]

November 5, 2019

Feasibility Report: Lessons learned from a city-to-city partnership on nutrition

The Birmingham India Nutrition Initiative (BINDI) is a Nutrition Smart City initiative which involves the development of policies and practices through a learning partnership between Birmingham City Council (BCC), the United Kingdom (UK) and Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), India. This report focuses on the lessons learned from a city partnership on nutrition, linking to the […]

October 4, 2019

Policy Options for Pune Municipal Corporation

This paper lays out a series of policy options that could be considered by Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) in India to support the citizens of Pune to make healthy food choices when they are eating outside of their homes, whether at school, at work, on the move, or when eating in a hotel or restaurant. […]

Birmingham nutrition situation and stakeholder mapping

Birmingham is the second largest city in the United Kingdom, continuing to grow and relatively diverse. It faces a series of nutrition challenges as programmatic funding wanes: inadequate diet intake impacting low but persistent prevalence of undernutrition among children, micronutrient deficiencies among children, a high prevalence of overweight and obesity among adults and concerning rates […]

Pune nutrition situation and stakeholder mapping

This report serves two purposes for the BINDI project: to summarise the nutritional situation and to map the key project stakeholders. It focuses on Pune, one half of the BINDI partnership. Pune is a large city in India with a vibrant reputation that has established itself as one of the leading ‘Smart Cities’ in India. […]