SUN_A road map

The Scaling Up Nutrition Framework was published in 2010. It is to provide an outline of the emerging framework of key principles and priorities for action to address undernutrition. The second is to mobilise increased investment in a set of nutrition interventions across different sectors.

This framework first explains why there should be a major focus on reducing undernutrition. In the last section, the policy brief makes a series of specific recommendations for action. The main recommendations are:

• Individual country nutrition strategies and programmes must be country-owned and built on the country’s specific needs and capacities.

• Interventions to prevent and treat undernutrition should be scaled up, with highest priority to the minus 9 to 24 month window of opportunity. A conservative global estimate of financing needs for these interventions is $10 billion per year.

• To that end, a multi-sectoral approach should be adopted that includes integrating nutrition in related sectors and using indicators of undernutrition as one of the measures of progress in these sectors.

• Domestic and external assistance for countryowned nutrition programmes and capacity should be scaled up. Nutrition should be explicitly supported in global as well as national initiatives for food security, social protection and health, and external assistance should follow the agreed principles of aid effectiveness.

A road map was elaborated in September 2010. It details means through which country, regional and international stakeholders will work together to establish and then pursue an effort to Scale Up Nutrition.

Published in September 2011, the first progress report has been presented on the High Level Meeting on Nutrition at the UN General Assembly on September 20th 2011 and the follow-up workshop for the Scale-Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement on September 21st. It provides a global overview of progress one year after the launch of the Movement. The accompanying compendium of country fiches provides information on progress in individual countries.

The second annual progress report presents a detailed snapshot of the progress and results towards scaling up nutrition in SUN countries for the period 2011-2012 and the broad evolution of the Movement.

The SUN Strategy 2012-2015 and accompanying revised road map 2012 establish a three-year plan to significantly reduce under-nutrition in participating countries. It is a summary of the Movement’s goals, objectives, mode of operation and accountability.