Launched
in September 2010, the purpose of the SUN Movement is to catalyse colle...
Launched
in September 2010, the purpose of the SUN Movement is to catalyse collective
action and create an enabling environment to end malnutrition in all its forms.
With 60 SUN Countries and the Indian States of Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Uttar
Pradesh at the helm, the SUN Movement represents an unprecedented country-led
effort to bring together stakeholders – from governments, national and global
civil society organisations, businesses, the UN system, researchers and
scientists across different sectors- and provide them with a collaborative
space to convene, mobilise, share, learn, advocate, align and coordinate
actions and approaches to improve nutrition.
SUN
countries, supported by all stakeholders in the Movement, are committed to
creating an enabling environment for scaling up nutrition by strengthening four
strategic processes as set out in the SUN Movement Strategy and Roadmap
2016-2020: Expanding and sustaining an enabling political environment;
prioritising effective actions that contribute to good nutrition, implementing
actions aligned with national common results frameworks and effectively using,
and significantly increasing, financial resources for nutrition. The SUN Movement Coordinator, UN Assistant Secretary
General, oversees the day-to-day implementation of the Strategy and Roadmap,
leads the SUN Movement Secretariat and represents the SUN Movement
globally.
UNOPS is the legal and administrative
host of the SUN Movement Secretariat. SUN Movement Secretariat has developed as
a small coordinating mechanism. It has no operational role, but seeks to link
together countries and networks in the SUN Movement to ensure that support,
requested in countries to intensify actions and achieve nutrition objectives,
is received in a coordinated and coherent way. It also ensures that the
Movement’s progress is tracked efficiently and communicated clearly. The
Secretariat is headed by the Director of the Secretariat who is responsible for
ensuring that the Secretariat catalyses, facilitates and supports effective
action across the overall SUN Movement.
As part of the hosting, UNOPS Geneva Office is a
fund manager the SUN Movement Pool Fund.