Launched in September 2010, the purpose of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Moveme...
Launched in September 2010, the purpose of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement is to catalyse collective action and create an enabling environment to end malnutrition in all its forms. With 62 SUN Countries and four Indian States 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 SUN Strategy and Roadmap, heads the SUN Movement Secretariat and represents the SUN Movement globally. In 2021, the SUN Movement will enter its third phase (2021-2025), with a new strategy and implementation plan guiding its work.
Since 2012, the 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 Coordinator and led on a day-to-day basis by the Chief of Staff, who is responsible for ensuring that the Secretariat catalyses, facilitates and supports effective action across the overall SUN Movement.