#SUNCSOpportunities Working with Parliamentarians to accelerate parents friendly workplaces in Zimbabwe, investigating factors that influence families in using BMS in Laos, enabling youth participation in Nutrition MSP to enhance Adolescence Nutrition practices in 2 districts in Malawi, strengthening youth capacity and engagement in Nutrition and advocacy in Zimbabwe and Rwanda and empowering youth leadership in combatting non-communicable diseases in Sri Lanka These and much more are the intervention areas awarded by the 2019 SUN CSN Awards #Innovation&Research Funds and #YouthGrants Congratulations to the 2 Civil Society Alliances And to the 4 Youth Leaders for Nutrition #YL4N The SUN CSN Award gives the opportunity to members of the SUN CSN to research upon, test and pilot new practices that could make a great impact on current Nutrition intervention at Local, National, Regional and Global level. The awarded organizations/individuals have 6 months to implement their projects and to assess if the approaches are worth to be scaled up and sustained over the time and which are the improvements & learnings we should keep in consideration to harvest a greater result. Looking forward know and disseminate the results after their completion in July 2020. Best of luck to you all!

1. SUN Civil Society Network 2019 Awards:
Innovation & Research Fund and Youth Grants
Grantee Country Project Title Project Summary
CARE
International in
Lao PDR
Laos Factors influencing mothers and
family members to use BMS
products and how it affects
health, nutrition behaviour, and
economics.
CARE Lao PDR plans to strengthen the capacity of SUN CSA members to
influence Provincial Nutrition Committees (PNCs) to implement the International
Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes, by providing concrete evidence
through a Research Study. Through the implementation of the BMS Code, nutrition
will be improved.
Zimbabwe
Civil Society
Organisations
Scaling Up
Nutrition
Alliance
Zimbabwe Empowering parliament of
Zimbabwe in taking centre stage
in rolling out parent friendly
workplaces in the country
ZCSOSUNA plans to engage parliament of Zimbabwe in setting up a parent
friendly room at the main parliament building as a means of promoting
breastfeeding among working women. This will also facilitate the rolling out of the
initiative to all government structures and the private sector.
Mike (Youth
Leader 4
Nutrition)
Malawi Enabling Youth participation in
Nutrition platforms to enhance
Adolescent Nutrition Awareness
throughout Malawi: a pilot in
Nkhotakota and Balaka districts
CSONA will promote youth participation in nutrition platforms in all sectors using
existing community nutrition structures in order to enhance youth understanding of
nutrition. The project will advance adolescent understanding of nutrition information
and strengthen existing nutrition structures at regional and municipal level. In
Malawi these consist of the Area Nutrition Coordinating Committee (ANCC),
Village Nutrition Coordinating Committee (VNCC) and District Nutrition
Coordinating Committee (DNCC). None of these currently have youth involvement
on their councils. This should need to be changed so that programs can be more
effective.

2. Florence
(Youth Leader
4 Nutrition)
Rwanda Strengthening the youth capacity
and engagement in adolescents
nutrition advocacy
The SUN Alliance in collaboration with youth leader plans to select youth
champions for nutrition in all 30 districts of Rwanda to be engaged in adolescents
nutrition advocacy under the support of SUN Alliance in districts.
Niroj (Youth
Leader 4
Nutrition)
Sri Lanka Training and Empowering Youth
Leadership to Combat Non
Communicable Diseases
SUN CSA Sri Lanka in collaboration with its youth leaders planning to conduct a
project aiming empowering the youth to combat Non Communicable Diseases in
the country. This is a continuation of an existing activity which SUN CSA SL is
already conducting with its youth partners in collaboration with Government
National Youth Council, Ministry of Health and various other partners. 2019 SUN
CSA will be doing the capacity building training for youth leaders in eight districts
out of 25 districts in the country. The proposed project is for another four districts.
Since already SUN CSA executive council has two youth member representation,
aim is to increase the youth leaders network across the country to contribute to the
nutrition related activities.
Webster
(Youth Leader
4 Nutrition)
Zimbabwe Strengthening adolescent boys
and girls voices and participation
in nutrition advocacy in
Zimbabwe
ZCSOSUNA will employ pedagogy models in teaching adolescents the basics and
essentials of nutrition as a means of strengthening their voice and participation in
nutrition advocacy. This youth led project will support adolescents to participate in
a campaign dubbed, “Kick Out Stunting Campaign,” which is aimed at raising
nutrition awareness among adolescents and strengthening youth voice on nutrition
in Zimbabwe.