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Leveraging the Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Network: building regional platforms to promote learning on how to address malnutrition

The Learning Route in Rwanda

EXPERIENCE FAIR

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Civil Society Scaling Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN)

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Who We Are• Civil Society Scaling-up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-

SUNN) is a non-governmental, non-profit making coalition, made up of organizations with a shared vision to transform Nigeria into a country where every citizen is food and nutrition secured.

• The primary purpose of the coalition is to strengthen partnerships to advocate for increased policy development and resource allocation for improved nutrition outcomes.

• CS-SUNN provides a platform to engage government and non-state actors to advocate for policy implementation, create public awareness, increase local demand for appropriate nutrition service delivery, track service provision and budget implementation.

…….Working together to attain a country where every citizen is food and nutrition

secured

Who We Are Contd• Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health (PACFaH)

Project is a social accountability project implemented through the strategy of partnership building of indigenous CSOs, champions and activists to catalyze change at national and state levels to fulfill commitments on child and family health.

• PACFaH is a coalition of indigenous CSOs including dRPC, CHRI, CS-SUNN, AAFP, working to improve Government’s understanding of challenges that confront child and family health issues in Nigeria & to solicit by advocating for Government’s intervention to address them by fulfilling policy, budgeting and administrative requirements to improve CFH services.

…….Working together to attain a country where every citizen is food and nutrition secured

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What is the nutrition situation in your country?

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Nigeria has the highest number of stunted children on the continent and ranks second globally with about 11 million stunted children

Children < 5yrs37% chronically malnourished (stunted)18% acutely malnourished (wasted)29% underweight

Children < 6 mos17% Exclusively Breastfed

Children 6-23 mosComplementary Foods not introduced on time67% receive complementary foods10% adhere to IYCF recommendations

Nutritional indices 1990-(2013 NDHS)

1990 1999 2003 2008 2013

Stunting 43% 46% 42% 41% 37%Wasting 9% 12% 11% 14% 18%Underweight 36% 27% 24% 23% 29%

EBF 2% 22% 17% 13% 17%

…….Working together to attain a country where every citizen is food and nutrition secured

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What are the key National interventions to tackle malnutrition in your country?

• Key National Interventions • Main Challenges

1990 •National Committee on Food and Nutrition Established

1995 •National Food and Nutrition Policy Formulated

2005 •Home Grown School Feeding and Health Programme

2012 •First Nutrition Summit to Create a “Roadmap to Scaling Up Nutrition in Nigeria”

2015 •National Strategic Plan of Action for Nutrition launched

2016 •National Policy on Food and Nutrition approved

Policy Implementation

Funding

Coordination

Lesson learned: Effective coordination of nutrition interventions is key to reduction and eradication of malnutrition in Nigeria

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Intervention Areas

• Maternal Nutrition• Infant and Young Child Feeding• Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition in

Children under five• Micronutrient Deficiency Control• Diet related Non-communicable Diseases• Nutrition Information and Surveillance Systems

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Presentation of the CSA

• Quick history: Date of creation: Started November 2013 and formally launched August 07, 2014 and registered on October 31, 2014

• Structure: Board of Trustees performs ceremonial/legal oversight and advocacy functions for the coalition

• Steering Committee serves as the executive committee and supervises the nomination of the BOT members. Also provides oversight for the day-to-day activities of the Coalition and its National Secretariat

• Secretariat and Project Staff• Number of organisations who are members: 250• What kind of organisations are represented in your CSA?:

International partners (e.g. Save the Children, ACF), Local NGOs, Professional Associations, CSOs, FBOs, etc

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Key intervention areas

Key intervention area of the CSA and key achievements

• Key achievements (November 2014- date)

Advocacy• Policy dialogues (Federal and

State• Data Collection• Policy Briefs• Score Cards• Budget Analysis• Policy Analysis• Media Mobilisation• Grass roots mobilisation• Capacity Building

Advocacy - Led to the adoption of the National Strategic

Plan of Action for Nutrition (NSPAN)

NSPAN Implementation in

Kaduna, Nasarawa and Niger States

(2015- 2016)

Capacity Building - 150 CSOs, CBOs

and FBOs- Advocacy, coalition

building, budget tracking and

monitoring (2015-2016)

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Nutrition Stakeholder

s

Ministry of budget and

National Planning

Federal Ministry of

Health

NPHCDA

SMoHChampions

International Partners (e.g.

UNICEF, CHAI, SCI)

Donors (e.g. World Bank,

BMGF, USAID, DFID)

Academia

Professional Bodies

Who are the most influential nutrition stakeholders in your country?

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CSA call For Action Statement

• Ensure that the Federal Government and State Government fulfil their commitments in Nutrition.

• To fully implement the National Strategic Plan of Action for Nutrition (NSPAN) by providing adequate funding for plan in the national budget

• To create a strategic plan of implementation for the National Policy of Food and Nutrition (NPFN)

• For timely release of funds allocated for nutrition in the Ministries of Health, Agriculture and Education in the 2016 Budgets and ensure increased accountability/management of released funds.

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Thank you!

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