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Ceremonial Pinning 2 June 2021The Philippines is the first country in Southeast Asia and the Pacific to launch the SUN Movement 3.0 strategy. The launch is a success, with almost a thousand local and international nutrition stakeholders gathered on 02 June 2021 via Zoom and Facebook Live to witness the event.

The SUN Movement is founded on the principle that all people have a right to good food and good nutrition. It brings together governments, civil society, the United Nations, donors, businesses, and academe into a collective effort to improve nutrition. The Philippines, through an NNC Governing Board resolution in 2014, approved the country’s registration to SUN. Since then, the Philippines has been continuously active in all activities of the SUN Movement and in strengthening its networks. NNC Executive Director Azucena M. Dayanghirang is an active member of the SUN Executive Committee.

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 Sun launch 3.0

MANILA, 02 JUNE 2021– The Scaling Up Movement( SUN) 3.0, the third phase of the United Nations-established movement, calls for accelerated results to eliminate all forms of malnutrition by 2030.  In the launch of the SUN 3.0 strategy in the Philippines, stakeholders from the SUN Networks including government, civil society, business sector, academe and donors committed to enhance leadership and country-ownership of nutrition actions to achieve results.

In 2014, the Philippines became the 51st country to join the SUN Movement which has now grown to include 63 countries.  The National Nutrition Council Governing Board approved the Philippine registration to the SUN Movement to gain support from other SUN member countries and international development partners, and the United Nations agencies in improving the nutrition situation of the country and in harmonizing existing strategies to ensure effective implementation in order to achieve nutrition targets.

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Nutrition Research

The Nutrition Research Technical Working Group (NR-TWG) convenes its first meeting of the year on 18 February 2021 via Zoom to discuss the plans for the development of the Strategic Plan for the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN) Research Agenda.

The PPAN Research Agenda, a companion plan of the PPAN 2018-2022, aims to provide evidence for the formulation of policies, selection, and design of nutrition interventions and improvement of nutrition program management towards the achievement of the PPAN goals and objectives. It has nine priority transdisciplinary nutrition thematic areas that aim to guide the generation of research on nutrition in the country. How to implement the research agenda? A strategic plan will be developed through the expertise of Organic Intelligence (OI), Inc., a contractor hired for this purpose.

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Final 2021 NM Banner as of 10 March 2021

The NNC Technical Committee has approved the theme for this year’s Nutrition Month campaign – “Malnutrisyon patuloy na labanan, First 1000 days tutukan!” during its online meeting for the year on 5 March 2021.

The 2021 Nutrition Month theme calls for continued efforts to address malnutrition in the country which is expected to worsen as a result of the pandemic and limited resources for nutrition. The theme calls for all sectors to focus efforts on the First 1000 Days of life as the strategic intervention to prevent stunting and obesity.