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 59 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.
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 Director of the Secretariat who is responsible for ensuring that
the Secretariat catalyses, facilitates and supports effective action across the
overall SUN Movement.
Some years a global gathering is organized to bring
together partners from the SUN countries and regional and global networks
involved in the SUN Movement. In 2017 the SUN Movement Secretariat will
organize the Global Gathering (SUNGG) in one of the SUN countries, Ivory Coast.
It is expected that the event will bring together approximately 700
participants coming from about 80 different countries. The SUNGG will be a key
moment for mutual accountability within the Movement and a unique opportunity
for the nutrition community to reflect on their efforts to scale up nutrition.
This year there will also be a special focus on launching the new phase of the
SUN Movement with its renewed strategy and roadmap for 2016-2020. The SUNGG will
take place from 7th November to 9th November 2017 at the Hotel Ivoire Sofitel
in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.