Brief overview of efforts and achievements to Scaling up Nutrition (SUN CS Learning Route in Rwanda - 2016)

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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
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Civil Society Scaling Up Nutrition in Nigeria
(CS-SUNN)
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3. 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

4. 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.
•
…….

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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 < 5yrs
37% chronically malnourished (stunted)
18% acutely malnourished (wasted)
29% underweight
Children < 6 mos
17% Exclusively Breastfed
Children 6-23 mos
Complementary Foods not introduced on time
67% receive complementary foods
10% adhere to IYCF recommendations

6. 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%
…….

7. What are the key National interventions to tackle malnutrition in your country?
• Key National Interventions • Main Challenges
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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

8. 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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9. 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
Stakeholders
Ministry of
budget and
National
Planning
Federal Ministry
of Health
NPHCDA
SMoH
Champions
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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12. 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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13. Thank you!
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