This week, actors across the nutrition community including representatives from governments, businesses, academics and members of civil society came together to make bold pledges towards the UN nutrition targets at the Nutrition for Growth Summit. The Civil Society Network (CSN) is part of Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN), a world-wide Movement to end malnutrition. Our diverse […]
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The Youth: Secret Ingredient for a Sustainable Food System
Food and Nutrition Youth Network (FNYN) Philippines Launched By: Rose Jade Eugenie Delgado SUN Youth Leader for Nutrition & FNYN Philippines Convenor In the recipe of shaping a more sustainable food system, we need: a cup of policy changes by governments, a pinch of investment and innovation from businesses and the private sector, a dash of advocacy from Civil Society Organizations, a […]
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Message of solidarity with the people of Afghanistan
At the Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Network we are deeply concerned with the news from Afghanistan and the worrying reports of severe hunger crisis due to extreme drought. Even before the Taliban advancement, Afghanistan had one of the world’s highest rates of stunting in children under-5 years old; 40.9% are stunted and 9.5% are […]
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World Breastfeeding Week: Kyrgyzstan are on a mission to protect breastfeeding
In 2019, the Ministry of Health in Kyrgyzstan created a working group to revise the Law « On the Protection of Breastfeeding », the working group included representatives of CSA SUN Kyrgyzstan, who contributed to the development of proposals for the draft of the Law. In the same year, UNICEF arranged a visit from David Clark, a […]
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World Breastfeeding Week: SUN CSA Cambodia investigators violators of the code
In Cambodia, the code for producers of breast milk substitutes was put in place in 2005. However, for the next decade there was little to no enforcement and when surveyed, only 27% of officials actually knew the details of the code. Despite widespread violations, there was no reporting and no enforcement recognition in place. To combat these […]
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5 things we learnt from the 2020 Civil Society Annual Survey
Our membership is huge! With civil society presence in nearly 50 countries, we always knew we were a large network. But after gathering the data from this year’s Annual Survey we have discovered that we have an incredible 4212 member organisations in the Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Network (SUN CSN)!1 This number has increased […]
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The SUN Civil Society Network launches its new 5-year strategy!
Why do we need a new CSN strategy? The Civil Society Network 3.0 strategy (2021-2025) constitutes an essential guide to rally all civil society members’ collective efforts behind a strong mission and vision. The CSN 3.0 strategy was designed for the Network by the Network, in alignment with the overall SUN Movement 3.0 strategy. As such, the […]
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SUN PfSl: International Women’s Day Program – 2021
International Women’s Day is celebrated on 8th of March every year. As an organization that works for the improvement of the nutritional status of the community, SUN PF also joins with various programs for Women’s Day every year. This is primarily because proper nutrition of women contributes to the nutritional wellbeing of the entire population […]
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Meet the women of the CSN: Dilka Rashmi Peiris
Project Director Scaling Up Nutrition People’s Forum, former SUN CSA focal person for Sri Lanka My work in nutrition I was really drawn to nutrition as it has a multi-sectoral approach. Women play a key role in implementing nutrition policies, both in the family and in society as a whole, and contributing to the health and […]
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Meet the women of the CSN: Duong Vu
Duong Vu, Vietnam Program Manager for Alive and Thrive (A&T) My work in nutrition I am Duong Vu. I work at Alive & Thrive Southeast Asia. As a core member of SUN CSN Vietnam, I supported the strategy development and policy advocacy. There are two recent policy wins that we all are very proud of. […]
LireDuong Vu, Vietnam Program Manager for Alive and Thrive (A&T)
My work in nutrition
I am Duong Vu. I work at Alive & Thrive Southeast Asia. As a core member of SUN CSN Vietnam, I supported the strategy development and policy advocacy. There are two recent policy wins that we all are very proud of. The first one is the $200m government investment in nutrition for more than 13 million ethnic minority people. The second is the government decree on a compulsory workplace lactation area at companies with more than 1000 female workers. With this decree, almost 2.5 million female workers in Viet Nam will benefit from workplace lactation areas at companies.
My curiosity about healthy eating emerged when I gave birth to my first son. Exclusively breastfeeding my sons gave me personal evidence of how breast milk builds up children’s immune systems. It later led me to research about the processing industry, biodynamic agriculture and sustainable ecology. “We are what we eat”, the more we pay for mothers’ breastfeeding and organic farmers, the less we pay for medicine.
I find that nutrition is a daily issue that offers a great enlightening moment for mothers to care about Mother Earth and transform towards sustainable lifestyle. If every mother in the world shares viewpoints and concerns about nutrition, half of the world is scaling up nutrition. It will make a big shift to the food industry and agriculture in any country.
The role of women
I am proud to be a woman. The challenges of being a breastfeeding and working woman gives me lessons about transforming relationship towards love, happiness, kindness and tolerance.
I believe that more women in leadership shall build a just world of love and kindness. Empowering women with a strong social security network of maternity protection, childcare and healthcare policies shall help women to invest time in career development.
