Abstract
The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement and conflicts of interest in global nutrition governance
Highlights
Multi-stakeholder partnerships involving governments, international organisations, civil society and private sector actors have become key instruments in food and nutrition governance and for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals
Businesses whose profit depends on marketing and sales of unhealthy food and beverages may for example reframe malnutrition problems in their own interests, influence public health agendas and priorities, fund research seeming to support their views, and interfere with legislative processes to derail industry regulation
Through the endorsement of the “Comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition” by Member States at the World Health Assembly in 2012, World Health Organization (WHO) was mandated to ‘form alliances and partnerships to expand nutrition actions with the establishment of adequate mechanisms to safeguard against potential conflicts of interest’ [1]
Summary
Multi-stakeholder partnerships involving governments, international organisations, civil society and private sector actors have become key instruments in food and nutrition governance and for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals. While partnerships may provide effective solutions to policy problems by drawing on skills and resources from different stakeholders, there should be a limit to the level of involvement of actors whose interests conflict, or may seem to conflict, with public agencies’ agendas.
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