Effective international action against undernutrition: why has it proven so difficult and what can be done to accelerate progress?

Morris, Saul S.; Cogill, Bruce; Uauy, Ricardo

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(07)61695-x

Cited by 216 publications

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“…The 2008 Series also empha sised the fragmented nature of the international nutrition community with regard to messaging, priorities, and funding, 28 and contributed to birth of the SUN movement (panel 3). Undernutrition has unique features that guide the kinds of knowledge and evidence needed for progress (panel 2).…”

Section: Narratives Knowledge and Evidencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…5 years ago, the stewardship or governance of this system was fragmented and dysfunctional. 28 Since then, a process to reform UN institutional architecture has started and the SUN movement has emerged (panel 3), engaging more than 100 bodies within these organisations. SUN is governed by a lead group of heads of state and other key stakeholders, but is focused mainly on galvanising national and country-led action (panel 3).…”

Section: Global Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

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The politics of reducing malnutrition: building commitment and accelerating progress

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In the past 5 years, political discourse about the challenge of undernutrition has increased substantially at national and international levels and has led to stated commitments from many national governments, international organisations, and donors. The Scaling Up Nutrition movement has both driven, and been driven by, this developing momentum. Harmonisation has increased among stakeholders, with regard to their understanding of the main causes of malnutrition and to the various options for addressing it. The main challenges are to enhance and expand the quality and coverage of nutrition-specifi c interventions, and to maximise the nutrition sensitivity of more distal interventions, such as agriculture, social protection, and water and sanitation. But a crucial third level of action exists, which relates to the environments and processes that underpin and shape political and policy processes. We focus on this neglected level. We address several fundamental questions: how can enabling environments and processes be cultivated, sustained, and ultimately translated into results on the ground? How has high-level political momentum been generated? What needs to happen to turn this momentum into results? How can we ensure that high-quality, well-resourced interventions for nutrition are available to those who need them, and that agriculture, social protection, and water and sanitation systems and programmes are proactively reoriented to support nutrition goals? We use a six-cell framework to discuss the ways in which three domains (knowledge and evidence, politics and governance, and capacity and resources) are pivotal to create and sustain political momentum, and to translate momentum into results in high-burden countries.

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Section: Narratives Knowledge and Evidencementioning

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Section: Global Governancementioning

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The politics of reducing malnutrition: building commitment and accelerating progress

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“…As agricultural markets will always exhibit volatile prices due to random production shocks, health and nutrition risks have to be addressed through social protection and responsive health services. Most of these actions are carried out by national governments, but international support for these investments is also needed, especially in the leastdeveloped countries (Morris et al 2008). Setting priorities in this area requires a sound metric for targeting actions and measuring progress.…”

Section: Social Protection and Nutrition Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Volatile and Extreme Food Prices, Food Security, and Policy: An Overview

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2016

Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy

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“…The movement was a response to the 2008 Lancet series on maternal and child nutrition which showed that there was an unacceptably high burden of undernutrition among women and children (2)(3)(4)(5)(6) . The 2008 series and its sequel in 2013 (7)(8)(9)(10) both demonstrated that undernutrition, especially stunting, was clustered in a few high burden countries.…”

Section: The Scaling Up Nutrition Movementmentioning

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Capacity for scaling up nutrition: a focus on pre-service training in West Africa and a Ghanaian case study

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The 2013 Lancet series on maternal and child nutrition is identified and advocated for improved institutional and human capacity in nutrition towards scaling up nutrition (SUN) in countries with high stunting rates. Of the fifty-four countries with high burden of child undernutrition who have committed to the SUN movement, thirty-six are in Africa. In the present paper, the academic platform of the SUN movement in Ghana presents an overview of nutrition pre-service capacity in West Africa with a focus on Ghana. The present paper is based on the findings of a sub-region-wide assessment of degree programmes in nutrition in West Africa, plus another report on pre-service nutrition capacity in diploma awarding nursing and nutrition programmes in Ghana. Although there is inadequate evidence on pre-service nutrition training in the sub-region, the two reports provide useful evidence for action, including inadequate number and distribution of pre-service nutrition training programmes, low nutrition graduate output, poor quality of the programme curriculum and instruction, and sub-optimal capital investment. The present paper calls for urgent action to improve pre-service nutrition capacity building as a critical step towards SUN in West Africa.

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Effective international action against undernutrition: why has it proven so difficult and what can be done to accelerate progress?

Cited by 216 publications

References 23 publications

The politics of reducing malnutrition: building commitment and accelerating progress

The politics of reducing malnutrition: building commitment and accelerating progress

Volatile and Extreme Food Prices, Food Security, and Policy: An Overview

Capacity for scaling up nutrition: a focus on pre-service training in West Africa and a Ghanaian case study

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