Indonesia joined SUN in December 2011. Since then, the prevalence of stunting decreased from 37.2 per cent in 2013 to 27.7 per cent in 2019. Although stunting is still relatively high, this reduction shows us that efforts are working and the strong motivation of SUN and its Networks in Indonesia to continue reducing this number […]
Senegal has been an exemplar country in the West Africa region, reducing child stunting prevalence by 17.9 per cent from 1992 to 2017. […]
In the mid-2000s, the Government started to target stunting explicitly. As a result, between 2008 and 2016, the stunting rate dropped by more than half, from 28 to 13 per cent. […]
In 1997, a survey revealed that 36 per cent of children (over 200,000 girls and boys) were stunted. In 2006, the national survey of stunting revealed that the rate had dropped by half to 18 per cent in just nine years. By 2014, the rate had fallen to 13 per cent, and approximately 95,000 Kyrgyz […]
In 1992, two out of every three Ethiopian children were stunted. At 67 per cent, the country’s stunting prevalence was among the highest in the world. Over the next 25 years, stunting declined steadily. By 2016, prevalence had been cut by almost half, to 38 per cent. […]
Honduras joined SUN in May 2019. Since then, high-level advocacy, including the 2019 visit by the SUN Coordinator, has led to progress towards SUN’s strategic objectives, all which are in line with, and strengthen, the implementation of Honduras’ food security and nutrition policy and strategy (PyENSAN 2018-2030). […]
Philippines joined SUN in March 2014. Since then, a Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN) with outcome and output targets, coupled with a results framework, has been launched. Local Government Unit mobilisation strategies to scale up investments in nutrition, with a focus on dietary supplementation for pregnant women, and 6-23 -month-old children, have been […]
Pakistan joined SUN in January 2013. Since then, high-level nutrition coordination forums have been held under the auspices of the Prime Minister and Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission. Nutrition has been included in the manifesto of main political parties and public sector financing for nutrition has been introduced. […]
Kenya joined SUN in August 2012. Through SUN and the SUN Networks, the country has been supported through smart planning, to ensure costed multi-sectoral nutrition action plans exist at national and county levels. The Civil Society Alliance has been essential to mobilise resources for nutrition, at the sub-national level. […]
Rwanda joined SUN in December 2011. Since then, the country has introduced a community for health workers, to reduce the four top killers – malaria, diarrhoea, pneumonia, and malnutrition – diseases key to fight maternal and child mortality. 98 per cent of Rwandans are now covered by the community-based health insurance programme focused on local […]