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In February 2020, AfD and the Afghanistan Human Rights Organization (AHRO) held the first round-table discussion as part of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Pooled Fund Project.The SUN Movement, Afghanistan Civil Society Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (ACSA-FSN), and World Health Assembly (WHA) nutrition targets for 2025 were amongst the topics discussed. In March 2020, AfD together with AHRO and Action Against Hunger (ACF) conducted a second round table discussion on the issue of chronic malnutrition (stunting) in Afghanistan. In July 2020, AfD conducted a virtual 3rd roundtable discussion on nutrition in Afghanistan; the webinar, led by Save the Children, focused on anaemia. The 2 hours event saw participants being divided into small focus groups, with discussions focusing mainly on ways to improve the situation in Afghanistan.