Gerda Verburg is a United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and in 2016 was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as Coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement. She also serves as a Member of the World Economic Food Stewards Board.
The SUN Movement is a country-led and country-driven network working to support 65 SUN Countries and 4 Indian States to develop and achieve their nutrition targets. It is founded on a multistakeholder and multisectoral approach that harnesses the broad capacities of key players working to bring healthy nutrition to everyone, everywhere. It is facilitated by the SUN Movement Secretariat and four SUN Networks – the SUN Civil Society Network, SUN Business Network, SUN Donor Network and UN Nutrition.
Political leaders and decision-makers must step up to support countries, both financially and technically, to align behind country-owned and country-driven solutions for food and nutrition.
