January blog
SCALING UP NUTRITION (SUN)
LET US HOPE THAT THE SUN INITIATIVE CAN REALLY
PUT NUTRITION AT THE CENTRE OF DEVELOPMENT
I here ask questions and make comments about the rather big SUN (Scaling Up Nutrition) worldwide initiative endorsed by the World Bank and the pertinent UN agencies plus some international NGOs.
I consider myself a nutrition activist. As such, I try to have my practical experience influence my theory. Our engagement in nutrition work should lead to a praxis in which profession, empathy, concern and political solidarity become one and the same. Without these bearings I fear that we will just go in circles. I fear that the SUN initiative does not – at least yet – have these bearings. In any case, we need to discuss it, as between colleagues and friends. Here, I call for us to build up our capacities as nutrition activists to motivate others to be equally constructively critical.
THOSE WHO HAVE THE POWER ARE
NOT THOSE WHO HAVE THE PROBLEMS
I here below proceed to ask some general questions, and also some questions addressed to the leaders of the SUN initiative. I hope this will generate a dialogue.
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Claudio
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Claudio Schuftan
mailto:cschuftan@phmovement.org