The document summarizes the proceedings of the Asia Regional Coordination Group meeting in Siem Reap, Cambodia on September 18, 2019. The group pledged solidarity to end hunger and malnutrition in line with SUN Movement principles and international human rights. They called on global and country leaders to address malnutrition through developing nutrition plans, establishing multi-sectoral platforms, allocating financial resources, promoting health systems and nutrition education. The group also called for commitments at the 2020 Nutrition for Growth Summit to achieve global nutrition goals and targets.

1. Civil Society Resolution on Ending all Forms of Malnutrition
September 18, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) is a global movement founded on the principle that all people have a right to food
and good nutrition. It unites people—from governments, civil society, the United Nations, donors, businesses
and researchers—in a collective effort to improve nutrition. With the support of the SUN Civil Society Network
(SUN CSN) in each country of the SUN Movement, civil society alliances (CSAs) are being established to
coordinate civil society efforts aligned to national priorities, contribute to the efforts of multiple actors and multiple
sectors, and to strengthen and support the voice of those who suffer from malnutrition and its impacts. To realise
the vision of a world without hunger and malnutrition, the SUN Movement Principles of Engagement guide actors
as they work in a multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder space to effectively end malnutrition together, in all its
forms. These principles ensure that the Movement is flexible while maintaining a common purpose and mutual
accountability.
The Asia Regional Coordination Group (ACG) is group of 13 civil society alliances based in the Asia region,
contributing to reduction of all forms of malnutrition, in line with SUN Movement principles and SUN Civil Society
Network objectives. The overall objective of the ACG is to provide a forum to the CSAs in the Asia Region to
increase the capacity and ability of CSAs in the region to support effective implementation of national nutrition
plans, information sharing, knowledge exchange and identification of joint advocacy opportunities.
On the occasion of Asia Regional Coordination Group (ACG) Meeting held today at September 18, 2019 at
Siem Reap, Cambodia,
1. We the members of the Scaling up Nutrition Civil Society Network (CSN) Asia Regional Coordination
Group (ACG), pledge to act in solidarity to ensure freedom from hunger and malnutrition becomes a
reality. This is in line with the vision and principles of SUN, international human right to adequate standard
of healthy living, food and nutrition enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR),
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and other international human rights instruments.
2. We call upon global, regional and country leaders/ countries to address all forms of malnutrition through
the following actions:
• Express and demonstrate political commitment for improving nutrition at all levels;
• Develop and implement costed multi-sectoral nutrition plans and strategies to address the direct and
underlying determinants of malnutrition and food insecurity in relevant constituencies;
SUNCSN Asia Regional Coordination Group
(ACG)

2. • Establish and strengthen Multi Sectoral Platforms at the national and sub-national levels to promote
coordination and oversee implementation of nutrition policies, strategies, programs and other
investments in nutrition across relevant sectors;
• Strengthen capacity of duty bearers responsible for planning and implementation of nutrition
programs at national and sub-national level;
• Allocate adequate financial resources for nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive interventions,
through domestic finance; Official Development Assistance from development partners, innovative
financing tools, and generate private sector investments as appropriate;
• Enact and enforce necessary legislation for the implementation of International Code of Marketing of
Breast-Milk Substitutes (BMS);
• Strengthen health systems and promote universal health coverage particularly through primary health
care, to enable national health systems to address malnutrition in all its forms;
• Promote nutrition education and information based on national and international dietary guidelines
through educational institutions, health facilities, point-of-sale information, community interventions,
media, and other channels;
• Enact and enforce food safety regulations at national and sub-national level; and
• Engage Civil Society Organizations in the development of multi-sectoral nutrition policies, and in the
planning. implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive
programs
3. We call upon Governments, donors, UN agencies, I/NGOs, Multinational Corporations, Businesses to
participate in the Nutrition for Growth Summit (N4G) scheduled in December 2020 at Tokyo (Japan) to
make Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time bound (SMART) commitments that are
innovative and tied to existing global nutrition goals and targets.
Adopted and signed on behalf SUN civil Society Alliance:
Bangladesh Nepal Cambodia Vietnam
Myanmar Kyrgyzstan Philippines Indonesia
Sri Lanka Laos Afghanistan PNG
Pakistan, Regional Coordinator ACG

3. Supported by:
Anushree Rao Katherine Richards
Chair of the SUN CSN Steering Group Vice- Chair of the SUN CSN Steering Group