1. Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Network (SUN CSN)

2. Outline The SUN approach The role of Civil Society
What has been achieved
The Way Ahead

3. The SUN Approach

4. SUN is a unique Movement right to food & good nutrition.
founded on the principle
that all people have a
right to food &
good nutrition.

5. It unites people together in a collective and coordinated effort to
from multiple sectors of government, civil society,
the United Nations, donors,
businesses & researchers –
in a collective and coordinated effort to
improve nutrition.
together
we can achieve
what no single effort could,
and make the world a
healthier, stronger
place for us all.

6. The causes of malnutrition are
interconnected
Lack of good
CARE for mothers & children & support for parents on appropriate child feeding practices
Inadequate access to HEALTH sanitation & clean water services
Insufficient access to affordable, nutritious FOOD
throughout the year
ROOTED IN
Political & Cultural Environment
Disempowerment of women
Environmental Degradation
Poverty

7. Specific Actions for Nutrition Nutrition-Sensitive Strategies
Nutrition-sensitive strategies increase the impact of
specific actions for nutrition
Specific Actions for Nutrition
Nutrition-Sensitive Strategies
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
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

8. At the core of all efforts,
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.

9. SUN principles of engagement
Be transparent
about impact:
all stakeholders to transparently and honestly demonstrate the impact of collective action.
Be inclusive:
through open multi-stakeholder partnerships that bring proven solutions and interventions to scale.
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 mutually
accountable:
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.
to learn and adapt through regular sharing of the relevant
critical lessons, what works and what does not, across sectors, countries and stakeholders.
Be continuously
communicative:
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
Stakeholders make different contributions to the collective effort. Building the trust needed for collaboration requires respect for these differences.
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

10. The SUN approach SUN Focal Point is identified
Within each country a
SUN Focal Point is identified
Country governments lead national efforts to scale up nutrition.

11. multi-stakeholder platform
The SUN approach
The Focal Point brings people together in a
multi-stakeholder platform
Technical Community
Civil Society
United
Nations
Donors
Government Partners
Business

12. Works to align and coordinate action across sectors.
The SUN approach
The multi-stakeholder platform
Works to align and coordinate action across sectors.
Social Protection
Health
Women’s Empowerment
Agriculture
Development & Poverty Reduction
Education

13. Using a unique approach that
The SUN approach
Using a unique approach that
works for each country.
These efforts are underway in all SUN countries
Together the combined efforts of all countries make up the core of the Movement - The SUN Country Network
Multi-sector, multi-stakeholder platform

14. The SUN approach Global Networks of stakeholders shift resources &
align actions to support country efforts.
With overall support and coordination provided by the
SUN Secretariat
and
SUN Lead Group
Country Network
Civil Society Network
United Nations
Network
Donor Network
Business
Network
September 2013

15. 4 key processes: progress is reviewed every six weeks
Making progress
Within each country, SUN Movement stakeholders are brought together around
4 key processes: progress is reviewed every six weeks
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 Policies
for scaling up proven interventions; including the adoption of effective laws
& policies 1 2
Align Actions Across Sectors around high quality and well-costed country plans, with an agreed results framework and mutual accountability.
Increasing Resources and Monitoring Implementation
for coherent, aligned, effective action and maximum impact. 3 4

16. The role of Civil Society
The role of Civil Society
Photos credits © Claire Blanchard

17. Civil Society at the national level in the SUN movement

18. SUN Civil Society Network within the SUN movement

19. 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

20. Advancing the nutrition agenda SUN 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

22. 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 to other 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

23. Capacity to Deliver – Communities of Practice
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
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
Niger
CSOs contribute to implementation – presence on the ground, raising awareness , building capacity through training, M&E
Uganda
Ghana
Tanzania
Niger
Nepal
All CSAs
CSOs – social mobilisation GDA for nutrition as priority – buy-in and ownership, nutrition a priority, communities engaged in addressing malnutrition
Capacity to Deliver – Communities of Practice
Madagascar
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
CSOs advocate with government 4 multi-sectoral efforts & sustained nutrition prioritisation
Peru
Zambia
Ghana
Malawi
Guatemala
Malwi
Kenya
Madagascar
Cross-learning – Francophone, Anglophone and Hispanophone

24. A few examples in pictures SUN CSA efforts at country level
Traditional leaders engagement
Photo Credits: © Salim Dalwood for Zambia Civil Society Organization Scaling Up Nutrition (CSO-SUN) Alliance Global Day of Action 2014
Sensitizing Market women who become champions for promoting exclusive breastfeeding in Sierra Leone
Photo Credits: © SUN Civil Society Platform in Sierra Leone – World Breastfeeding Week 2013
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
Multi-stakeholder mapping efforts – GACCSSUN leading on CSO mapping as commissioned by the government
Sensitizing Chongwe District in Zambia
Photo Credits: © Salim Dalwood for Zambia Civil Society Organization Scaling Up Nutrition (CSO-SUN) Alliance Global Day of Action 2014

25. Advancing the nutrition agenda Role 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
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

26. What have CSOs learnt from engagement in SUN

27. 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

28. What has been achieved

29. Annual SUN Movement Progress Report: Released in November updates on progress in achieving the Movement’s goals and strategic objectives.

39. 21 SUN countries rapidly reducing prevalence of stunting
BANGLADESH
INDONESIA
KYRGYZSTAN
LAO PDR
MYANMAR
NEPAL
PAKISTAN
SRI LANKA
TAJIKISTAN
VIETNAM
YEMEN
ASIA
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
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
GHANA
GUINEA
GUINEA-BISSAU
KENYA
LIBERIA
MADAGASCAR
MALAWI
MALI
MAURITANIA
MOZAMBIQUE
NAMIBIA
NIGER
LATIN AMERICA
COSTA RICA
EL SALVADOR
GUATEMALA
HAITI
PERU
March 2014

40. The way ahead

41. Strengthening capacity to Deliver

42. Capacity to Deliver – Communities of Practice
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
In-country capacity
Other countries
Civil Society UN
Governments
Donors
Professionals & Academia
Businesses
Potential resources in country
Capacity to Deliver – Communities of Practice

43. Learning routes to inspire innovation
& country adapted solutions

44. Work towards ethical and ‘do no harm’ engagement of private sector

45. 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 snapshot
Ensuring sticking to social protection laws within work space for pregnant and lactating women
Food fortification efforts
Social corporate responsibility
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.

46. Delivering on commitments within evolving global context

47. 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.

48. World Health Assembly 2012 Resolution:
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:
40% reduction of the global number of children under 5 who are stunted
Target 1:
Target 2:
50% reduction of anemia in women of reproductive age
Target 3:
30% reduction of low birth weight
Target 4:
Increase exclusive breastfeeding rates in the first 6 months up to at least 50%
Target 5:
No increase in childhood overweight
Target 6:
Reducing and maintaining childhood wasting to less than 5%

49. 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 account
CS 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

50. Photos credits © Salim Dalwood for Zambia Civil Society Organization Scaling Up Nutrition (CSO-SUN) Alliance Global Day of Action 2014

51. Photos credits © Claire Blanchard
Building the car whilst driving it! On the road to improved nutrition and sustainable food systems

52. Thank you Merci Gracias Obrigada Asante Sana
Together….
Thank you Merci Gracias Obrigada Asante Sana
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