Abidjan, 5 May 2022 – Côte d’Ivoire Vice-President H.E. Tiémoko Meyliet Koné right now formally launched the nation’s Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Youth Network, making Côte d’Ivoire the primary nation with an official SUN community for youth.
The nation’s new SUN Youth Network brings collectively 37 youth organizations, with a complete membership of 5,000 youths, engaged on diet, meals and sustainable improvement. It is led by its President Mr. Ange Yothio, and has as its mission the implementation of advocacy actions for achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals within the areas of starvation and malnutrition.
While different youth networks exist throughout the SUN Movement in nations resembling Cambodia, Peru, the Philippines, and Zambia, amongst others, the Côte d’Ivoire nationwide SUN Youth Network is the primary official nationwide SUN community for youth – paving the way in which for the institution of others in SUN Countries.
The launch occasion, hosted by Vice-President Koné, was attended by 12 ministers; Ms. Gerda Verburg, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Coordinator of the SUN Movement; heads of UN businesses; youth organizations, in addition to companions from civil society and the personal sector.
Addressing the youth leaders on the occasion, Ms. Verburg mentioned, “Adolescence is a important interval for well being improvement – with out entry to good diet, you’ll expertise setbacks in your well being, your academic skills, your future work and incoming producing capability. And your group and nation may even really feel the impacts as a result of stunted youth create a stunted economic system, which can maintain again the nation’s improvement. But you, the youth of this nation, have the facility and talent to make a change – and to be a part of this modification. In truth, we want you to be a part of this modification. We can’t do it with out you.”
Mr. Mamadou Touré, Minister for the Promotion of Youth, Professional Integration and Civic Service, additionally emphasised the involvement of younger individuals within the improvement of social inclusion and improvement insurance policies as key for the way forward for Côte d’Ivoire.
Reaffirming his assist of the SUN Youth Network, Mr. Touré mentioned, “I wish to congratulate the leaders of this new community for the dedication that you’ve simply made and invite you all to rally as many youth organizations as potential to this trigger.”
This just isn’t the primary time the nation has led by instance. Côte d’Ivoire joined the SUN Movement 9 years in the past, and since 2013, the nation has made robust progress in direction of achievement of its diet targets, as highlighted by Vice-President Koné on the launch occasion. This contains the nation’s discount of the prevalence of continual malnutrition from 29.8% to 21.6% in 4 years. The nation can be main on the African continent degree, as demonstrated by Côte d’Ivoire President H.E. Alassane Dramane Ouattara in his proposal of “diet” because the African Union theme for 2022, which was endorsed on the 2022 African Union Heads of State Summit.
The nation’s Vice President, Prime Minister and several other ministers additionally scheduled high-level conferences with Ms. Verburg throughout her official mission to Côte d’Ivoire, demonstrating the Government’s agency dedication to carry diet to all individuals within the nation. Additionally, Ms. Verburg, had the chance to see the robust dedication of the in-country SUN Networks and their members representing UN businesses, civil society, the personal sector and the donor group, by means of conferences with these useful stakeholders.
This multisectoral and multistakeholder dedication to diet by Côte d’Ivoire has strengthened the necessary function it performs as a champion of the African Union 2063 Agenda.
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