The SUN Business Network (SBN) aims to increase the availability and affordability of safe, nutritious foods to consumers, especially low-income consumers through activities at global and national levels. At a national level, the SBN convenes businesses, assesses technical, financial and other business support service needs for members, and advocates the role of business in addressing nutrition at country level. Read More
The SUN Business Network (SBN) aims to increase the availability and affordability of safe, nutritious foods to consumers, especially low-income consumers through activities at global and national levels. At a national level, the SBN convenes businesses, assesses technical, financial and other business support service needs for members, and advocates the role of business in addressing nutrition at country level. At a global level, the SBN acts as a focal point for engaging multinational businesses in nutrition activities such as making workplace nutrition commitments.Read More
The SUN Business Network (SBN) aims to increase the availability and affordability of safe, nutritious foods to consumers, especially low-income consumers through activities at global and national levels. At a national level, the SBN convenes businesses, assesses technical, financial and other business support service needs for members, and advocates the role of business in addressing nutrition at country level.Read More
Emerging networks are in SUN Countries where the government has made a commitment to ending malnutrition through a multi-stakeholder approach and private sector companies have begun to mobilise their support for a multistakeholder, multisectoral approach to improving nutrition. Read More
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The Uganda Nutrition Action Plan (UNAPII) 2020-2025 was validated and adopted by the Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Technical Coordination Committee on 3rd September 2020. The UNAPII coordination framework provides for the establishment of the Scaling Up Nutrition Business Network (SBN). Now, the network is moving towards its official launch, in order to fully begin its activities to engage the private sector in efforts for improved nutrition in the country. Even before its launch, the network has already secured a membership base of 15 members, 93% of which are small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Uganda faces challenges with anaemia among women of a reproductive age, as well as concerns related to child stunting. According to theGlobal Nutrition Report, 28.5% of women aged 15 to 49 years are affected by anaemia, meanwhile 28.9% of children under 5 years of age are affected by stunting. However, the latter figure is lower than the Africa region’s average which is calculated at 29.1%. Also below the regional average is Uganda’s prevalence of wasting among children under 5 years of age, which lies at 3.5% while 6.4% of children across the region are affected. Uganda has shown limited to no progress towards achieving targets set for diet-related non-communicable diseases, such as obesity which affects 8.6% and 1.8% of adult women and men, respectively. These figures, though, do remain under the regional averages of 18.4% for women and 7.8% of men.
Membership: Members shall be drawn from registered business associations, corporate bodies, and public-sector agencies involved in food trade, food transportation, food processing and food and nutrition advisory services for nutrition-specific and sensitive actions. Membership shall be based on institutional representation.
The chairperson will select, among the network, staffmembers on a rotational basis of three years, and the chair of the network will host the Secretariat.
The SBN reports to the Multisectoral Nutrition Technical Coordination Committee.
SBN Uganda’s key role, as specified in their Terms of Reference below, is to mobilise business to act, invest and innovate in responsible and sustainable actions in emerging markets, to improve the consumption of nutritious and safe food for all people in Uganda.
The network’s roles and responsibilities include:
