Resources

Smart Nutrition Cities: Building on what’s gone before

The Birmingham India Nutrition Initiative (BINDI) is a ‘Nutrition Smart City’ initiative, which involves the development of relevant policies and practices through a learning partnership between Birmingham, United Kingdom (UK), and Pune, India. The two cities are developing a platform to enable joint learning, experience sharing and pilot specific initiatives. This report and the case […]

October 4, 2019

Food systems for nutrition in the Sahel: A joint DFID and French MOFA workshop

This workshop co-organised by the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MOFA), with the support of Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition Plus (MQSUN+), examined the human and economic costs of Sahel’s nutrition situation and looked at how food systems could help respond. It […]

September 13, 2019

Assessing the functional capacity needs of SUN Movement and CAADP Focal Points

Strengthening the capacity for multisectoral and multi-stakeholder collaboration at all levels is a core objective of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement. In 2017, both the SUN Movement Secretariat (SMS) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) independently initiated the development of functional capacity building programmes for SUN and Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme […]

Assessing readiness for costing of a common results framework or national nutrition plan

The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement is a global movement to catalyse country action towards ending malnutrition in all its forms. Member countries commit to developing a framework to prioritise multisectoral nutrition actions for coordinated implementation. Whilst the shape and form vary across countries, this is typically referred to as a common results framework (CRF)—often […]

July 19, 2019

DFID’s aid spending for nutrition: 2017

This report is the latest in a series which presents detailed information on United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) aid investments to improve nutrition. Building on previous reports (Development Initiatives, 2014; 2015; 2016; 2017; 2018) regarding investments made between 2010 and 2016, and using the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement’s agreed methodology, this report analyses […]

June 10, 2019

Gender in multisectoral nutrition action plans

A core aim of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement is to “ensure equity, equality and non-discrimination for all, with women and girls at the centre of efforts”. To achieve this by 2020, as highlighted in the SUN Movement Strategy and Roadmap (2016-2020), all SUN countries are striving to (SUN Movement Secretariat, 2016): Have equitable […]

May 15, 2019

The Current State of Evidence and Thinking on Wasting Prevention

This report, prepared by the Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN), presents the findings from a review of published and grey literature produced between 1990 and 2018, as well as consultation with stakeholders (n=46) conducted through individual interviews between December 2017 and March 2018, on the current state of evidence and thinking on wasting prevention. The review […]

December 13, 2018

Research prioritisation for improving wasting prevention

ENN is embarking on a Research Prioritisation (RP) exercise, for the UK Department for International Development (DFID) through the MQSUN+ project, on the critical subject of wasting prevention. This short document is intended to provide information about why this exercise is important, what our approach will be and to let people know how to participate. […]

October 10, 2018

MQSUN+: Technical Support for Scaling Up Nutrition

Following on the success of Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition (MQSUN), MQSUN+ (2016-2020) provides technical assistance to: (1) Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) countries and the SUN Movement Secretariat (SMS) to catalyse multisectoral country efforts and build local capacity to scale up nutrition impact, and (2) the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) to maximise […]

September 26, 2018

Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition Plus (MQSUN+)

From 2012 to 2016, Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition (MQSUN) supported scaling up nutrition efforts at both global and national levels by providing technical expertise on the design, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based, nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive programming and policies. Following on the success of MQSUN, MQSUN+ (2016-2020) provides technical assistance to the United […]