Endnotes
1
The Scaling Up Nutrition movement, or
SUN, is a global push for action and investment to improve maternal and child nutrition. SUN helps governments, civil society,
businesses, development agencies, international organizations, and foundations to synergize their support to communities as they
reduce malnutrition and to demonstrate
their results.
2
GAO-09-666 President’s Emergency Plan
for AIDS Relief. http://www.gao.gov/assets/300/292421.pdf
3
The World Bank. http://web.worldbank.
org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/
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4
World Health Organization. http://www.
who.int/nutrition/topics/Partner_agency_
consultation_LA.pdf
5
Lacey and Pritchett, JADA 2003; 103:10611072.
6 The Lancet Series on Maternal and Child
Undernutrition, Executive Summary, 2008.
7
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Fiscal Year 2011,
Agency Financial Report, 2011, page 4.
8
USAID ADS Chapter 101 Agency Programs and Functions. September 2011. http://
www.usaid.gov/policy/ads/100/101.pdf
9
Introducing the Policy Brief: Scaling-Up
Nutrition: A Framework for Action. David
Nabarro, Special Representative of the U.N.
Secretary General for Food Security and
Nutrition (Revised April 2010). http://siteresources.worldbank.org/NUTRITION/Reso
urces/042410DavidNabarroIntroducingtheS
UN.pdf.
10
The Lancet’s series on Maternal and Child
Undernutrition. The Lancet, Volume 371.
2008.
11 The 1970s were marked by a significant departure from past practices in the delivery of
U.S. development assistance. A “basic human
needs” approach replaced technical and capital assistance programs. It stressed food and
nutrition; population planning; and health,
education, and human resources development. USAID History Accessed at http://
www.usaid.gov/about_usaid/usaidhist.html
12 http://www.thousanddays.org
13 http://www.scalingupnutrition.org/wp-
content/uploads/2011/05/120410-SUN-LeadGroup-release-SG-Appoints-27-leaders-tohead-SUN.pdf
www.bread.org
14
Accessed at http://www.whitehouse.gov/
the-press-office/2012/05/18/remarks-president-symposium-global-agriculture-and-foodsecurity
15
www.apromiserenewed.org
16 FY
2009 GHI funding for nutrition was
$55 million (.65% of total GHI), FY 2010 $75
million (.84%), FY 2011 $90 million (1 %).
17 http://www.kff.org/globalhealth/up-
load/8160.pdf. Nutrition was previously
included in the Maternal and Child Health
account.
18
Reshaping Agriculture in Health, edited
by Shenggen Fan and Rajul Pandya-Lorch,
International Food Policy Research Institute,
Washington, DC, 2012.
health/upload/8116.pdf)
23
GHI designates improved nutrition as one
of its six focus areas and supports countryowned programs for undernutrition, especially in mothers and children under 2 years
of age.
24 Leading Through Civilian Power. The First
Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development
Review. 2010.
25
Feed the Future Guide, May 2010.
26
Feed the Future Guide. May 2010, page 13.
27 USAID. Fiscal Year 2011. Agency Financial
Report.
28
In “Global Nutrition Institutions: Is There
an Appetite for Change?”, the Center for
Global Development reports that when a
19 Malnutrition rates in high burden counnumber of key stakeholders and thinkers in
tries are much higher than in other countries
the field of global nutrition were asked in inwith similar national incomes.
terviews to articulate the major institutional
20 When referring to the U.S. government in
weaknesses, the top response was lack of inthis paper, we are mainly referring to the agen- stitutional leadership. http://www.cgdev.org/
cies, bureaus, and offices that are involved in files/1422612_file_Global_Nutrition_Institudevelopment assistance policy and programs tions_FINAL.