The Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) Mr. Ban
Ki-moon has appointed former German Agriculture Minister, Gerda Verburg as the new Coordinator of the Scaling Up
Nutrition (SUN) Movement, reports NaijaAgroNet.
Mr. Ki-moon, NaijaAgroNet gave this approve in February 2016
with the anticipation that Madam Gerda Verburg will assume full office by
August 2, 2016.
NaijaAgroNet gathered that Gerda had participated in the
2016 Women Deliver Conference on May 16 through 19, to demonstrate that
empowering women is essential for sustaining improvements in the nutrition
status of everyone, everywhere.
She spoke recently at the European Development Days held
between June 15 and 16, about the centrality of nutrition to achieving the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the action needed from European
development partners to build country nutrition capacity.
NaijaAgroNet also gathered that this came as SUN countries
in the last quarter, shared their experiences through two virtual meetings of
the SUN Country Network, discussing national commitments and setting nutrition
targets, and the steps you are taking to build and sustain political commitment
for nutrition action.
Arnold said, SUN Countries from across Asia came together in
a regional workshop, held in Bangkok on April 25 through 27, to mobilise public
finance for nutrition and another workshop to be held in Nairobi, Kenya between
August 22 and 25, 2016 for African SUN countries.
SUN, is a unique movement founded on the principle that all people have a right to food and good nutrition and tends to unite people from governments, civil society, the United Nations, donors, businesses and researchers—in a collective effort to improve nutrition.
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