founded on the principle that all people have a

from governments, civil society, the United Nations, donors, businesses & researchers – in a collective effort to improve nutrition.

we can achieve what no single effort could, and make the world a healthier, stronger place for us all.

• 52 million children are too thin and require special treatment.
• At the same time, 43 million children are overweight some as a result of poverty, when families are unable to afford a balanced, nutritious diet.
• 2 billion people are deficient in key vitamins & minerals

Because when..
Girls & women are well-nourished and have healthy newborn babies
Communities & nations are productive & stable
The world is a safer, more resilient & stronger place
Children receive proper nutrition proper nutrition minds
Adolescents learn better & achieve higher grades in school
Families & communities emerge out of poverty
Young adults are better able to obtain work & earn more

Eliminating under-nutrition in young
children has multiple benefits. It can:
• Boost gross national product by 11% in Africa and Asia.
• Improve school attainment by at least one year.
• Increase wages by 5-50%.
• Reduce poverty as well-nourished children are 33% more likely to escape poverty as adults.
• Empower women to be 10% more likely to run their own business

• The Copenhagen Consensus 2012
Expert Panel of world renowned economists identified the smartest ways to allocate money to respond to ten of the world’s biggest challenges.
They found that every $1 invested in reducing under-nutrition results in
a $30 return on investment in terms of increased health, schooling and productivity.
• They agreed that fighting malnutrition should be the top priority for policy-makers & philanthropists.
“One of the most compelling investments is to get nutrients to the world’s undernourished.
The benefits from doing so – in terms of increased health, schooling, and productivity – are tremendous,”
-Nobel laureate economist
Vernon Smith

Insufficient access to affordable, nutritious
FOOD throughout the year
Lack of good
CARE for mothers & children
& support for parents on appropriate child feeding practices
Inadequate access to
sanitation & clean water services
ROOTED IN
Political & Cultural
Environment
Poverty Disempowerment of women
Environmental
Degradation

recognizes that
has multiple causes.
That’s why it requires People and
Programmes to work together to put nutrition into all development efforts, and develop sustainable

Specific Actions for Nutrition
Feeding Practices & Behaviors:
Encouraging exclusive breastfeeding up to 6 months of age and continued breastfeeding together with appropriate and nutritious food up to
2 years of age and beyond
Nutrition-Sensitive Strategies
Agriculture: Making nutritious food more accessible to everyone, and supporting small farms as a source of income for women and families
Clean Water & Sanitation: Improving access to reduce infection and disease
Fortification of foods: Enabling access to nutrients through incorporating them into foods
Education & Employment: Making sure children have the nutrition needed to learn and earn a decent income as adults
Micronutrient supplementation:
Direct provision of extra nutrients
Health Care: Access to services that enable women & children to be healthy
Treatment of acute malnutrition:
Enabling persons with moderate and severe malnutrition to access effective treatment
Support for Resilience: Establishing a stronger, healthier population and sustained prosperity to better endure emergencies and conflicts

At the core of all efforts, women are empowered to be leaders in their families and communities, leading the way to a healthier and stronger world.

Countries around the world have committed to making nutrition a priority
& global partners are working together to support the efforts of SUN countries.

• The Scaling up Nutrition Movement relies on national leaders taking ownership and responsibility for delivering sustainable solutions to improve nutrition in their countries.
Through country-led efforts that focus on equity and realization of rights,
SUN countries are enabling women, families & communities to create stronger foundations for their people & transforming the future of our world.
• SUN enables countries to take a collaborative approach bringing together the people & resources needed to rapidly scale up nutrition-specific interventions as well as implement cross-sector strategies that are nutrition-sensitive.

Country governments lead national efforts to scale up nutrition.
Within each country a
SUN Focal Point is identified

The Focal Point brings people together in a multi-stakeholder platform
Technical
Community
Civil Society
United
Nations
Government
Partners
Donors
Business

The multi-stakeholder platform
Works to align and coordinate action across sectors.
Health
Women’s
Empowerment
Education
Social
Protection
Agriculture
Development
& Poverty
Reduction

These efforts are underway in all SUN countries
Multi-sector, multistakeholder platform
Using a unique approach that works for each country .
Together the combined efforts of all countries make up the core of the
Movement The SUN Country Network

Global Networks of stakeholders shift resources & align actions to support country efforts.
Country
Network
With overall support and coordination provided by the
SUN Secretariat and
SUN Lead Group
Civil Society
Network
United Nations
Network
Donor
Network
Business
Network

• Reduction in stunting adopted as national goal
• Major social programmes targeted to the poorest
• Comprehensive health insurance system implemented
• Increased Government budget allocated for nutrition
• Political commitment and engagement by main sectors (Health, Education,
WASH, Agriculture and Local Governance)
• Government budget for nutrition doubled
• Large scale program to improve access to health posts in remote and drought- stricken areas
• Provision of safety nets for vulnerable families
• Treatment of severe acute malnutrition expanded

Within each country, SUN Movement stakeholders are brought together around
4 key processes: progress is reviewed every six weeks
Creating Political and
Operational Platforms, with strong in-country leadership & shared multi-stakeholder spaces where people come together to align their activities & take joint responsibility for scaling up nutrition.
Incorporating Best Practices into National Policies for scaling up proven interventions; including the adoption of effective laws
& policies
Align Actions Across Sectors around high quality and wellcosted country plans, with an agreed results framework and mutual accountability.
Increasing Resources and
Monitoring Implementation for coherent, aligned, effective action and maximum impact.

Creating Political and
Operational Platforms
GHANA
Political commitment to fight against hunger and malnutrition has been strengthened when the First
Lady of Ghana supported the
SUN Movement launch.
KENYA
Minister for Public Health and
Sanitation, Hon. Beth Mugo officially launched Kenya’s
Nutrition Action Plan (2012-
2017) at the National SUN
Symposium.

Incorporating Best Practices into National Policies
HAITI
The nation-wide flagship nutrition program was launched to fight hunger and malnutrition.
BURKINA FASO
Infant and young child feeding is being addressed by the road map for improved nutrition that aligns national programs in key sectors.

Aligning Actions Across
Sectors
NEPAL
The Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Plan was endorsed by the Cabinet with a common results framework where all ministries have agreed on a set of essential nutrition-specific and nutritionsensitive interventions.
UGANDA
A Nutrition Action Plan is scaling up multi-sector efforts for a strong nutrition foundation for
Uganda’s development.
INDONESIA
Cash transfer programmes to protect poor families are scaling up and are being linked to the delivery of nutrition services.

Increasing Resources and
Monitoring Implementation
MALI
All regions of Mali received funding for nutrition in 2012.
TANZANIA
The Ministry of Finance now includes planning and budgeting for nutrition at level of national and local authorities.
GUATEMALA
The national Zero Hunger plan was launched with a specific budget line for addressing undernutrition during the 1,000 days between pregnancy and a child’s second birthday.

Establishing targets to measure impact: Countries are encouraged to establish their own targets for nutrition goals in the following areas:
•
Universal access to affordable nutritious food, clean water, sanitation, healthcare and social protection
•
Increased adoption of practices that contribute to good nutrition (such as exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months of life)
•
Optimal growth of children, demonstrated as reduced levels of stunting (low height for age) and wasting (low weight for height)
•
Improved micronutrient status, especially in women and children, demonstrated as reduced levels of micronutrient deficiency
Annual SUN Movement Progress Report: Released in September each year by the SUN Movement Secretariat, the report provides updates on progress in achieving the Movement’s goals and strategic objectives.

Together, countries and supporting stakeholders are collectively working to reach the global targets set out by the
World Health Assembly 2012 Resolution:
Target 1:
40% reduction of the global number of children under 5 who are stunted
Target 2: 50% reduction of anemia in women of reproductive age
Target 3: 30% reduction of low birth weight
Target 4:
Target 5:
Target 6:
Increase exclusive breastfeeding rates in the first 6 months up to at least 50%
No increase in childhood overweight
Reducing and maintaining childhood wasting to less than 5%

Be transparent about impact: all stakeholders to transparently and honestly demonstrate the impact of collective action.
Be inclusive: through open multi-stakeholder partnerships that bring proven solutions and interventions to scale.
Be rights-based: act in line with a commitment to uphold the equity and rights of all women, men and their children.
Be willing to negotiate: when conflicts arise, as can be expected with diverse partners working together, hold the intention to resolve conflicts and reach a way forward.
Be mutually accountable: act so all stakeholders feel responsible for and are held collectively accountable to the joint commitments.
Be cost effective: establish priorities on evidenced-based analysis of what will have the greatest and most sustainable impact for the least cost.
Be continuously communicative: to learn and adapt through regular sharing of the relevant critical lessons, what works and what does not, across sectors, countries and stakeholders.

SUN Framework for
Action is developed
& endorsed by over
100 global entities – establishing the foundation for the
Movement.
SUN builds momentum and commitment for scaling up nutrition –
19 countries join the Movement.
The Movement grows to 33 countries & a high-level group of 27 international leaders are appointed to the
SUN Lead Group & endorse the SUN
Movement Strategy for 2012-2015
2011
2010
The way forward.
In 2013, SUN will focus on mobilizing resources behind national movements, to achieve measurable progress & impact.

is growing in numbers & strength
are providing support to
with the opportunity to reach

50 countries: 21 rapidly reducing prevalence of stunting
ASIA
BANGLADESH
INDONESIA
KYRGYZSTAN
LAO PDR
MYANMAR
NEPAL
PAKISTAN
SRI LANKA
TAJIKISTAN
VIETNAM
YEMEN
LATIN AMERICA
COSTA RICA
EL SALVADOR
GUATEMALA
HAITI
PERU
Since 2000,21 SUN Countries (indicated in RED) have accelerate their average annual rate of reduction of chronic malnutrition
(or stunting) in children under 5 years at more than 2% per year
BENIN
BURKINA FASO
BURUNDI
CAMEROON
CHAD
COMOROS
COTE D’IVOIRE
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF
CONGO
REPUBLIC of CONGO
ETHIOPIA
GAMBIA
AFRICA
GHANA
GUINEA
GUINEA-BISSAU
KENYA
LIBERIA
MADAGASCAR
MALAWI
MALI
MAURITANIA
MOZAMBIQUE
NAMIBIA
NIGER
NIGERIA
RWANDA
SENEGAL
SIERRA LEONE
SOUTH SUDAN
SWAZILAND
TANZANIA
TOGO
UGANDA
ZAMBIA
ZIMBABWE
March 2014

W e are revealing what has been hidden to all.
We are making healthier
& stronger societies.
Our goal is a better world for all
…especially our children
Thank you

• Slide 4 – Why Nutrition The Facts: UNICEF-WHO-The World Bank: Joint child malnutrition estimates -
Levels and trends. Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition
• Slide 6 – A Smart Investment: Lawrence Haddad. Child Growth=Sustainable Economic Growth: Why we should invest in Nutrition. May 2013
• Slide 7- Experts Agree: Copenhagen Consensus: Solving the world’s challenges. May 2012
• Slides 31- SUN Countries’ success in reducing stunting: The number of countries with AARRs greater than 2% is calculated based on historical data from 2000 to beginning of 2014. This figure is currently under review, and the new number will be reported once the reanalysis of latest available data is finished.
The SUN Movement Secretariat is supported by Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, the
United Kingdom and the European Union, together with the Micronutrient Initiative and Unilever.
March 2014