In the UK, 2018 all went a bit Pete Tong. The government said “Thank u, next” to a whole host of Cabinet members. Some of us panicked about the lack of C with our KF. And after hopes were raised, English football fans found it wasn’t coming home after all. Then when I came back […]
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They came, they saw, they conquered: Global Youth Leaders for Nutrition
TUESDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2018 The Global Youth Leaders for Nutrition programme, round 2, took place in Rome last week. Four young people boarded their first-ever international flights and headed for the ‘Leave No One Behind – Making the Case for Adolescent Girls’ conference. The event, hosted by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Canadian […]
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World Food Day: why young people are leading the way to #zerohunger
Today, World Food Day, we’re celebrating the crucial role young people are playing in tackling malnutrition. This blog post is by Florence Sibomana, a medical student from Rwanda and member of the Youth Leaders for Nutrition programme 2018. She has a passion for global health and social justice. In July Florence was selected to attend an advocacy […]
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What makes a great leader?
Keep reading and you’ll find out right here… Last week I was in Washington D.C. for the kick-off of our Youth Leaders for Nutrition Programme. This is a 3-year programme that aims to empower young people, primarily from countries with high rates of malnutrition, to become leaders in the campaign to end malnutrition. The programme, […]
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A global gathering to tackle malnutrition: what we learned
At the start of November, the Ivory Coast government hosted the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Global Gathering. The Scaling Up Nutrition Movement was established in response to the growing recognition of the problem of undernutrition and concern that the international system was failing to deal with it effectively. The movement inspired a new way […]
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Our nutrition, our future: hear young people speak out about malnutrition
Having never travelled to Asia before, I jumped at the opportunity to support the ‘Our Nutrition, Our Future’ project in Sylhet, Bangladesh. The aim of the project is to raise awareness of the importance of adolescent nutrition among policy-makers, government ministers, programme designers and donors. We carried out five workshops, focussing on child participation with […]
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