by Kate McMahon | Oct 25, 2022 | Blog
On Monday 24th October, the APPG on Nutrition for Development hosted a roundtable on the impact of the war in Ukraine on Nutrition. Speakers included Emma Massey, Nutrition Adviser (Humanitarian/Health), FCDO; Webster Makombe, Youth Leader for Nutrition; and...
by tom | Jun 16, 2021 | Blog, Uncategorized
Last week, the APPG on Nutrition for Growth met with the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) to discuss how the FCDO can maximise the impact of its nutrition programmes. At the meeting, Tamsyn Barton, ICAI’s Chief Commissioner, and Jonathan France, ICAI’s...
by tom | Mar 10, 2020 | Blog
By Ceri Jones, Action for Global Health The APPG on Nutrition for Growth collaborated with Action for Global Health to conven health workers, civil society, parliamentarians and government actors to discuss the UK’s role in helping achieve the ambitious target of...
by tom | Jan 31, 2020 | Blog, Uncategorized
On Tuesday 28 January, the House of Lords held a ninety minute debate on the Government’s pledge at the Tokyo Nutrition for Growth summit and what they are doing to leverage commitments from other countries. Twelve Peers from all sides of the House spoke in the...
by tom | Jan 15, 2020 | Blog, Uncategorized
On Monday in the House of Lords, the Minister for International Development Baroness Sugg was questioned by six Peers on her department’s approach to nutrition sensitive aid programming. Labour’s International Development spokesperson, Lord Collins,...
by tom | Jan 8, 2020 | Blog
In the Lords debate on the Queen’s Speech last night, Baroness Manzoor made the case to the Government that they must support nutrition “if they want to meet their other global objectives”. In the speech, Manzoor demonstrated how nutrition is central...
