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Principles
The principles guiding the SUN movement are as follows:
(a) SUN efforts are led from countries and external support processes must add value to this country-led action and must be demand-driven;
(b) ongoing initiatives to improve nutrition should be linked together for greater coherence, efficiency, and impact, wherever possible; and
(c) a combination of networks and movements are needed to enable a range of stakeholders to work together and contribute to lasting results. The following describes the mechanisms that, we hope, will enable the movement to function in a coordinated and coherent way.
Purpose
The Framework for Scaling-Up Nutrition (SUN) is a response to the continuing high levels of under-nutrition in our world and the uneven progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) – set in 2000 – to halve poverty and hunger by the year 2015. Success with this MDG is critical for equitable economic and social development, and to the realization of all the MDGs. The SUN framework has been developed by specialists from governments, academia, research institutions, civil society, private companies, development agencies, UN organizations and the World Bank. It has been endorsed by more than 100 organizations and was unveiled in Washington in April 2010 at a meeting co-hosted by Canada, Japan, USAID and the World Bank. A short introduction to the Framework is available .
The next step was to develop concrete recommendations for the wider group of SUN stakeholders at local, national and regional levels on how to scale up nutritional outcomes relevant to the realization of the MDGs: the Road Map for Scaling-Up Nutrition (edición española, version française). This SUN Road Map has been developed by a Task Team over a period of 60 days leading up to the September 2010 Summit on the Millennium Development Goals. The SUN Road Map Task Team drew on the insights of five Working Groups made up of people from governments, civil society, the private sector, philanthropic foundations and the research community.
The SUN Road Map answers the question “how to bring the SUN Framework to life and ensure that it leads to real – and sustained – improvements in nutrition in the highest burden countries?” It indicates ways in which developing countries, development partners, businesses and civil society can become more deeply involved in making the SUN Framework operational. It indicates the political, technical and financial means through which development agencies can support the development and implementation of action plans for Scaling up Nutrition. It sets out pathways, processes and milestones for this collective work.
In 2011 the SUN Road Map will be translated into action with a view to helping countries affected by under-nutrition to achieve long-term reduction in under-nutrition and realize the first Millennium Development Goal, and to start demonstrating this impact within three years. For that purpose the SUN Road Map envisages an open system of support to the implementation of SUN efforts by countries. This SUN implementation support (SUN-IS) includes a Transition Team that is built on the Task team which produced the Road Map and Task Forces that evolved from the Road Map Working Groups.