United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement, Ms. Gerda VerburgMonrovia – The United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement, Ms. Gerda Verburg, as part of an official visit, has arrived in Liberia to meet with stakeholders to boost food security. Such an approach to improving people’s nutrition, the release said will catalyze progress toward Liberia’s national development ambitions and all 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals. “As a SUN country, Liberia is committed to reducing malnutrition through multi-sectoral strategies that address the immediate and underlying causes of malnutrition. Liberia is also obligated to meeting the nutrition targets set at national, regional and international (SDGs) level,” the release noted. Before this, Ms. Verburg served as Chair of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS), a multi-stakeholder committee where governments, civil societies, private sectors, research institutions and others address food and nutrition issues.

Source: Front Page Africa March 07, 2019 01:02 UTC