scaling up nutrition civil society network (sun csn)
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Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Network (SUN CSN)
Outline
• The SUN approach
• The role of Civil Society
• What has been achieved
• The Way Ahead
THE SUN APPROACH
SUN is a unique Movement founded on the principle that all people have a
right to food & good nutrition.
It unites people from multiple sectors of government, civil society, the United Nations, donors, businesses & researchers – in a collective and coordinated effort to improve nutrition.
we can achieve what no single effort could, and make the world a healthier, stronger place for us all.
together
ROOTED IN
Poverty Disempowerment of women
Political & Cultural Environment
Insufficient access to affordable, nutritious
FOODthroughout the year
Lack of good
CARE for mothers &
children & support for parents on
appropriate child feeding practices
Inadequate access to
HEALTH sanitation & clean
water services
The causes of malnutrition are interconnected
Environmental Degradation
Feeding Practices & Behaviors: Encouraging exclusive breastfeeding up to 6 months of age and continued breastfeeding together with appropriate and nutritious food up to 2 years of age and beyond
Fortification of foods: Enabling access to nutrients through incorporating them into foods
Micronutrient supplementation:Direct provision of extra nutrients
Treatment of acute malnutrition:Enabling persons with moderate and severe malnutrition to access effective treatment
Agriculture: Making nutritious food more accessible to everyone, and supporting small farms as a source of income for women and families
Clean Water & Sanitation: Improving access to reduce infection and disease
Education & Employment: Making sure children have the nutrition needed to learn and earn a decent income as adults
Health Care: Access to services that enable women & children to be healthy
Support for Resilience: Establishing a stronger, healthier population and sustained prosperity to better endure emergencies and conflicts
Nutrition-Sensitive Strategies Specific Actions for Nutrition
Nutrition-sensitive strategies increase the impact ofspecific actions for nutrition
Across all approaches – enabling equity for women
At the core of all efforts, women are empowered
to be leaders in their families and communities, leading the way to a
healthier and stronger world.
to learn and adapt through regular sharing of the relevant critical lessons, what works and what does not, across sectors, countries and stakeholders.
SUN principles of engagementBe transparent about impact:
all stakeholders to transparently and honestly demonstrate the impact of collective action.through open multi-stakeholder partnerships that bring proven solutions and interventions to scale.
Be inclusive:
act in line with a commitment to uphold the equity and rights of all women, men and their children.Be rights-based:
Be willing to negotiate:
when conflicts arise, as can be expected with diverse partners working together, hold the intention to resolve conflicts and reach a way forward.
Be mutuallyaccountable:
act so all stakeholders feel responsible for and are held collectively accountable to the joint commitments.
Be cost effective: establish priorities on evidenced-based analysis of what will have the greatest and most sustainable impact for the least cost.
Be continuouslycommunicative:
Stakeholders make different contributions to the collective effort. Building the trust needed for collaboration requires respect for these differences.
Act with integrity & in an Ethical manner
Stakeholders should recognize that both personal and institutional conflicts of interest must be managed with the highest degree of integrity.
Be Mutually respectful & earn trust
Do no Harm All stakeholders are committed to ensuring that all mothers and children everywhere are empowered to realise their right to proper nutrition whilst doing no harm
The SUN approach
Country governments lead national efforts to scale up nutrition.
Within each country a SUN Focal Point is identified
The SUN approach
The Focal Point brings people together in a multi-stakeholder platform
Technical Community
United Nations
Government Partners
Civil Society
Donors
Business
The SUN approach
The multi-stakeholder platform
Works to align and coordinate action
across sectors.
Women’s Empowerment
Health
Development & Poverty Reduction
Agriculture
Education
Social Protection
The SUN approachUsing a unique approach that
works for each country.These efforts are underway
in all SUN countries
Multi-sector, multi-stakeholder platform
Together the combined efforts of all countries make up the core of the
Movement - The SUN Country Network
With overall support and coordination provided by the
SUN Secretariat and
SUN Lead Group
Country Network
Donor Network
Civil Society Network
BusinessNetwork
United NationsNetwork
Global Networks of stakeholders shift
resources & align actions to support
country efforts.
The SUN approach
September 2013
Making progress
Creating Political and Operational Platforms, with strong in-country leadership & shared multi-stakeholder spaces where people come together to align their activities & take joint responsibility for scaling up nutrition.
Incorporating Best Practices into National Policiesfor scaling up proven interventions; including the adoption of effective laws & policies
Align Actions Across Sectors around high quality and well-costed country plans, with an agreed results framework and mutual accountability.
Increasing Resources and Monitoring Implementationfor coherent, aligned, effective action and maximum impact.
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3 4
Within each country, SUN Movement stakeholders are brought together around 4 key processes: progress is reviewed every six weeks
THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY
Photos credits © Claire Blanchard
Civil Society at the national levelin the SUN movement
SUN Civil Society Network within the SUN movement
Civil Society - an important stakeholder in support of MMM national efforts
- Multi-stakeholder landscape mapping
- Advocacy, social mobilization and communications
• Sensitising everyone to national efforts and importance of nutrition
• Champions
• Working with government to advocate for cross- ministry participation…
- M&E and development of a common results framework
- National nutrition information systems
- Building sustainability beyond political cycles for prioritization of nutrition
through close work with parliamentarians and building cross-party support
during national elections
- Building community ownership - nutrition an important human rights, social
justice and development issue
Advancing the nutrition agendaSUN CSN plays a key role
Supporting CSAs in countries in their coordination role:
• Encouraging the alignment of Civil Society Organisations’ (CSO) strategies, programmes and resources with country plans for scaling up nutrition
• Fostering cross-learning and exchange of experiences towards a collective of CSAs functioning as a learning network
• Supporting efforts to build capacity for effective national efforts towards scaling up nutrition
Ensuring Nutrition remains high on the global and national agendas
• Nutrition on the post-2015 development framework and ensuring country perspectives taken on board
• ICN2 - Harmonising understanding of nutrition-sensitivity essential for cross-learning and generating evidence of effectiveness
National SUN Civil Society Alliances (CSA)• Building on pre-existing arrangements (e.g. Maternal and New Born Child
Health, AAHM), CSAs: Co-ordinate civil society in country for alignment behind national priorities Advocate for an increased focus
on nutritional outcome in national policies and programmes and representing grassroots voices
Support capacity strengthening for improved delivery of services(e.g. community health workers for nutrition service delivery or linking toother programmes like social protection programmes).
• CSA comprise a number of member CSOs who amplify the voices of communities affected by the double burden of under-nutrition and obesity and focus on the need for greater accountability to them:
international and in-country CSOs actively engaged in scaling up nutrition at country level.
A woman living with her 7 children in a soft built hut no bigger than the back of a small truck – highlighting issues of land rights for women, family planning needs, education, access to services (only through underfunded and under-resourced CSOs,...Photos credits © Claire Blanchard
Planning, costing, implementing and financing of scaled-
up multi-sectoral actions
Effective social mobilization,
communications and advocacy
Reliable monitoring of
progress, evaluation of outcomes and
demonstration of results
Enhanced ability to manage effective
implementation of actions by multiple
stakeholders
Capacity to Deliver – Communities of Practice
CSOs advocate with government 4 multi-sectoral efforts & sustained nutrition prioritisation
CSOs conduct mapping, off-budget tracking & advocate 4 budget transparency
CSOs contribute to policy shaping & bring grassroots perspectives to table, advocate 4 mutual accountability framework
CSOs contribute to implementation – presence on the ground, raising awareness , building capacity through training, M&E
CSOs- Social auditing- Advocate 4 centralised system & shape design- Collect data- Contribute to feedback back to the
community- Budget analysis- Contribute to review of M&E systems,
indicators, bottlenecks and contribute to key meetings to address this
- Feedback to community
Zambia
TanzaniaGhanaUganda
Niger
All CSAs
NepalNiger
MalawiGuatemala
Peru
Malwi
Ghana
Kenya
CSOs – social mobilisation GDA for nutrition as priority – buy-in and ownership, nutrition a priority, communities engaged in addressing malnutrition
Madagascar
Madagascar
CROSS-LEARNING – FRANCOPHONE, ANGLOPHONE AND HISPANOPHONE
A few examples in picturesSUN CSA efforts at country level
Sensitizing Market women who become champions for promoting exclusive breastfeeding in Sierra LeonePhoto Credits: © SUN Civil Society Platform in Sierra Leone – World Breastfeeding Week 2013
Traditional leaders engagementPhoto Credits: © Salim Dalwood for Zambia Civil Society Organization Scaling Up Nutrition (CSO-SUN) Alliance Global Day of Action 2014
Sensitizing Chongwe District in ZambiaPhoto Credits: © Salim Dalwood for Zambia Civil Society Organization Scaling Up Nutrition (CSO-SUN) Alliance Global Day of Action 2014
Multi-stakeholder mapping efforts – GACCSSUN leading on CSO mapping as commissioned by the government
An audience with the prime minister resulting in a commitment to hold a meeting with all ministries and MSP to start discussing increased investment for coordinated national and regional efforts of plan.Photo Credits: © Meja Miangola. National Nutrition Day, 21 June 2014, Morondava, Madagascar
Advancing the nutrition agendaRole of other networks
Donors:• Align support• Ensure key technical expertise supported• Work with governments to support implementation of national plans
UN system network:• Provide technical expertise (mapping, costing, dashboards, etc…)• Facilitate access to key forums for discussion, policy and decision making as well as global
forums for defining frameworks
Business network:• Promoting businesses engagement at national level• Ensuring businesses efforts aligned to national priorities• Facilitate access to key forums for discussion, policy and decision making as well as global
forums for defining frameworks
Country network:• Ensuring government leadership and buy-in from line ministries• Establishing multi-stakeholder platform• Having a costed national nutrition plan in place and integrating nutrition in sectoral plans• Having a budget line for nutrition• Ensuring all stakeholders play a role in scaling up nutrition efforts in country
What have CSOs learnt from engagement in SUN
• Civil Society as a valid, credible and legitimate stakeholder is key
• Institutional engagement and resource mobilisation in support of SUN efforts is required
• Capacity on the ground either not sufficient, poorly trained for nutrition interventions or poorly coordinated
• Rolling out to the districts is challenging and requires ownership, leadership, capacity strengthening and coordination
• Functionality of MSPs varying• SUN approach is a new paradigm – changing the dynamic -a
challenging new way of working requiring skills building at all levels
WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED
Annual SUN Movement Progress Report: Released in November 2014 - updates on progress in achieving the Movement’s goals and strategic objectives.
BANGLADESH INDONESIA KYRGYZSTAN LAO PDR MYANMARNEPAL PAKISTANSRI LANKATAJIKISTANVIETNAMYEMEN
ASIA
21 SUN countries rapidly reducing prevalence of stunting
COSTA RICA
EL SALVADOR
GUATEMALA
HAITI
PERU
BENIN
BURKINA FASO
BURUNDI
CAMEROON
CHAD
COMOROS
COTE D’IVOIRE
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
REPUBLIC of CONGO
ETHIOPIA
GAMBIA
NIGERIA
RWANDA
SENEGAL
SIERRA LEONE
SOUTH SUDAN
SWAZILAND
TANZANIA
TOGO
UGANDA
ZAMBIA
ZIMBABWE
AFRICA
Since 2000,21 SUN Countries (indicated in RED) have accelerate their average annual rate of reduction of chronic malnutrition
(or stunting) in children under 5 years at
more than 2% per year
LATIN AMERICA
GHANA
GUINEA
GUINEA-BISSAU
KENYA
LIBERIA
MADAGASCAR
MALAWI
MALI
MAURITANIA
MOZAMBIQUE
NAMIBIA
NIGER March 2014
THE WAY AHEAD
Strengthening capacity to Deliver
Planning, costing, implementing and
financing of scaled-up multi-sectoral actions
Effective social mobilization,
communications and advocacy
Reliable monitoring of progress, evaluation
of outcomes and demonstration of
results
Enhanced ability to manage effective
implementation of actions by multiple
stakeholders
Capacity to Deliver – Communities of Practice
Civil Society
DonorsUN Governments
Other countries
Professionals & Academia Businesses
In-country capacity
Potential resources in country
Learning routes to inspire innovation & country adapted solutions
Work towards ethical and ‘do no harm’ engagement of private sector
2015 to focus on business engagement
Shift in the dialogue
Parameters of engagement driven by strong conflicts of interests processes in countries & underpinned by SUN movement principles of engagement
A diverse stakeholder group
Private sector engagement in SUN countries – a snapshot1. Ensuring sticking to social protection laws within work space
for pregnant and lactating women2. Food fortification efforts3. Social corporate responsibility4. Production / importation of nutritional products for babies
Challenges• Land allocation & household food security implications• Promotion of nutrient-rich high quality locally grown and produced food products
over international and imported products when possible.
Delivering on commitments within evolving global context
Tracking and reporting impact
Establishing targets to measure impact: Countries are encouraged to establish their own targets for nutrition goals in the following areas:
• Universal access to affordable nutritious food, clean water, sanitation, healthcare and social protection
• Increased adoption of practices that contribute to good nutrition (such as exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months of life)
• Optimal growth of children, demonstrated as reduced levels of stunting (low height for age) and wasting (low weight for height)
• Improved micronutrient status, especially in women and children, demonstrated as reduced levels of micronutrient deficiency
Annual SUN Movement Progress Report: Released in September each year by the SUN Movement Secretariat, the report provides updates on progress in achieving the Movement’s goals and strategic objectives.
Supporting global impact
Together, countries and supporting stakeholders are collectively working to reach the global targets set out by the
World Health Assembly 2012 Resolution:
Reducing and maintaining childhood wasting to less than 5%
Target 1:
Target 2:
Target 3:
Target 4:
Target 5:
Target 6:
40% reduction of the global number of children under 5 who are stunted
50% reduction of anemia in women of reproductive age
30% reduction of low birth weight
No increase in childhood overweight
Increase exclusive breastfeeding rates in the first 6 months up to at least 50%
Global nutrition accountability& Nutrition for Growth
A Global Nutrition Report
Major commitments and process for tracking progress on delivery
June 2013 Nutrition for Growth event – USD $4.15 billion committed to tackle undernutrition up to 2020, and USD $19 billion committed for improved nutrition outcomes from nutrition-sensitive investments between 2013 and 2020 (including CSO commitments).
ICN 2 & Post-2015 SDGs to pave the way for nutrition and food systems through to 2030
CSOs hold to accountCS has a role to play - To hold each other to account- Ensure commitments are seen through by other stakeholders- Continue advocating for more commitments with a focus on governments
from global south- Advocate for establishment of accountability systems (global & national)
based on principles of mutual accountability
Photos credits © Salim Dalwood for Zambia Civil Society Organization Scaling Up Nutrition (CSO-SUN) Alliance Global Day of Action 2014
Photos credits © Claire Blanchard
Building the car whilst driving it! On the road to improved nutrition and sustainable food systems
Together….We are revealing what has been hidden to all.
We are making healthier & stronger societies.
Our goal is a better world for all …especially our
children
Thank youMerci
GraciasObrigada
Asante Sana