What is the SUN Business Network?The Scaling Up Nutrition Business Network (SBN) aims to mobilize and intensify business efforts in support of the SUN Movement and to ensure all people realize their right to good food and nutrition.

Two goals:

1. Build a global platform for business to commit to scaling up nutrition– diverse membership of food, non-food, multinational and local business to the network

2. Support SUN Countries to engage with business within a multi-stakeholder, country-owned, approach to scaling up nutrition

Governance:

• ConveneD by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, GAIN and the UN World Food Programme, UN WFP

• Secretariat• Advisory Group, co–chaired by Feike Sijbesma, CEO Royal DSM and Axton Salim, Indofood

SBN’s Global Platform Commitments from business• 125 million consumers, each year, by 2020• Case studies across industries• 129 companies – 38 multinationals, 91 national

companies• www.sunbusinessnetwork.org

Reporting & Accountability- Global Nutrition Report

Principles of engagement- International Code on Breast Milk Substitutes

Global Advocacy- International Conference for Nutrition (ICN2)- World Economic Forum & Business Platforms

Greater collaboration with business is a global trend

Key considerationsSupport for SUN CountriesBuilding platforms and strategies in 9 countriesSBN has worked with Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique, ZambiaBuilding a model for engagementMore engagement exists regionally – we want to learn from this

SUN countries: 29 request for support11 countries: developing a national business network18 countries: strengthening existing platforms

Responding to SUN country requests- Regional workshops- Guide to Business Engagement- Guides in:

- Agriculture- Food fortification- Mobile technology- Workforce nutrition

Key considerationsSUN Business Network 2.0

Key reflections for SUN 2.0:

• Need to continue to build trust• Creating commitments from business that align behind

country plans• Support SUN countries to identify which companies they

can work with, how to partner• Map and match competencies within the network with

greater technical requests from SUN countries• Build a more integrated ‘networked’ approach