Transforming leadership
How can we build commitment to, and accountability for, scaling up nutrition-relevant actions?
Transforming Nutrition: Ideas, Policies and Outcomes 2017
Monday 17 July 2017 – Friday 21 July 2017
Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK
Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK
This 5 day course is designed for both policy makers and practitioners. The course will lead participants through cutting edge knowledge and evidence on nutrition globally. Using an interactive diagnostic approach, participants will learn to apply such knowledge to specific national or sub-national situations to identify strategic areas for nutrition action. The course is designed to provide a base from which participants can develop their own future leadership for transformational change in nutrition.
What works to improve nutrition? Success stories and lessons learned from six countries
Making malnutrition history – one story at a time
by Edwyn Shiell – Policy and Strategy Advisor, Advocacy and Communication Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Secretariat
On Monday 12 July, I had the privilege of moderating a panel of esteemed nutrition champions at the Brighton launch of a landmark new book: Nourishing Millions – Stories of Change. It’s a major effort to bridge the gap between the technical aspects of what’s working (or not) to improve nutrition, and communicating it in simple stories that resonate. [Read more...]
Transform Nutrition Champions 2016 – their stories
A multi-media platform which showcases the stories of our 10 Transform Nutrition Champions is now available. Read their inspiring stories.
June 2016 newsletter
June 2016 Transform Nutrition Leaders Network e-newsletter.
- Meet your network co-convenors.
- Join the linked-in discussion group
- Share your impact stories
Reducing stunting in India: what investments are needed?
A new Transform Nutrition paper Reducing stunting in India: what investments are needed? by Rasmi Avula, Neha Raykar, Purnima Menon and Ramanan Laxminarayan is now available. [Read more...]
Transform Nutrition Champions spokespeople training
In March all 10 Transform Nutrition 2016 Champions were offered media and advocacy training by Save the Children. We were delighted that five were able to make it to London to take part. They joined around 10 key Save the Children international personnel and took part in an intensive 3-day training programme, during which they heard from expert media trainers and were given a chance to share their own examples of good practice. [Read more...]
Nutrition surveillance – still needed..
By Veronica Tuffrey
A review of nutrition surveillance in low-income countries has just been released by the Transform Nutrition research consortium. It describes the use and value of nutrition surveillance for a number of purposes including early warning of malnutrition, to develop and evaluate policies and programmes, and to assess progress towards international development goals for better nutrition.
Nutrition surveillance – the regular and systematic collection of data on nutritional indicators – is a subject most nutritionists perceive to be important but would rather leave others to deal with it. Why? [Read more...]
Nutrition advocacy training
Blog by Christine Muyama and Manaan Mumma
As Transform Nutrition champions 2016, we got an opportunity to participate in the Nutrition for Growth spokespeople training held in London from 14th- 16th March 2016. The training was conducted with the aim of identifying, collecting, and utilising compelling nutrition evidence and narratives to support our Nutrition advocacy work and to maximise the opportunity of the Nutrition for Growth summit as to secure political and financial nutrition commitments from our advocacy targets. It also focused on nutrition advocacy with a special emphasis on how to galvanize public support and influence decision makers around nutrition priorities. [Read more...]
