WASHINGTON — Donors must change the way they interact with partner governments, said Tatjana von Steiger Weber, deputy head of domain global cooperation at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.
As the global community looks toward meeting the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, she said agencies like her own must move away from models that support the implementation of prescribed solutions without input of local government and civil society. The Scaling Up Nutrition Movement is one example of a way to create a platform where all stakeholders — even those with different views — can engage productively to solve problems, she said.
SUN promotes a country-led approach to improving nutrition outcomes with a focus on the first 1,000 days from conception through age 2. It has advocated for coordinated global action to achieve SDG 2 and end both under and overnutrition.