Nepal joined SUN in May 2011. Since then, the country has developed and rolled out the Multi Sector Nutrition Plan for 2013-2017 (MSNP-I) and for 2018-2022 (MSNP-II). The Right to Food and Food Sovereignty Act (2018) has been put in place and is enforced. Nepal has set up multi-stakeholder platforms across three tiers of the federal system and hosted the 2019 SUN Movement Global Gathering in Kathmandu, the largest to date.
In 1995, Nepal recorded a stunting rate of 68 per cent, the highest in the world. This amounted to more than 2 million stunted children. By 2016, the rate had been cut almost in half, to 36 per cent.