Scaling Up Nutrition - European Development Days 2016

SUN MovementCollaboration across WASH and NutritionJune 16th, BrusselsSergio Cooper Teixeira

Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement founded in 2010, on the principle that all people have a right to food and good nutrition • Unites governments, civil society, United Nations, donors, businesses and

researchers

• 2,000+ organisations have committed to supporting national nutrition plans

• Countries focus on 1,000 day window of opportunity for preventing stunting

• SUN Countries are working together to achieve the six World Health Assembly Goals by 2025 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

57 countries and States of Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh committed to SUN

Evolution of Countries and States

committed to SUN2010 Launch

2011 19

2012 33

2013 41 + 1

2014 54 + 1

2015 56 + 1

2016 57 + 2

SUN countries, networks, partners strive to build an enabling environment for scaling up nutrition action

In each SUN country:• SUN Government Focal Point engages sectors and stakeholders in

platform• SUN Networks shift resources and align actions with country efforts

SUN Movement guided by Principles of Engagement rather than formulas

WASH-Nutrition linkages: scope of SUN Movement focus

The science linking WASH-Nutrition

Policy-Budget cycle

Implementation

• Quantifying the contribution of WASH actions to nutrition outcomes

• Randomized Control Trials• Causal frameworks, pathways, linkages

• Situation analysis, policy, planning, decentralization, budgeting, targeting

•Multi-sectoral platforms, incentives and barriers to sectoral commitment•Capacity assessments and strengthening•Uptake of implementation evidence in policy and planning

• Role of local governments in planning and innovation• Field testing and piloting, operational research• Partner programming and resource mobilization• Implementation monitoring

Levels of debate Themes

Linking WASH-Nutrition: consensus and challenges in policy-budget cycle

Linked policy-making will entail:1. More Nutrition action in WASH policies2. More WASH action in Nutrition policies3. Making each more sensitive to the other• How do governments

articulate policies of two multisectoral issues?

Linking WASH-Nutrition: consensus and challenges in policy-budget cycle The collaborations needed are very

diverse• How to foster complex matrices

of collaborations, for each action, situation, and level?• Might joint planning be easier

for local governments, than joint policy development is for central governments? What capacities do they need?


Cost efficiencies could be a strong argument, but remain vague• Which efficiencies, from

which actions and delivery platforms, are worth quantifying first and better?


Linkage experiences and evidence are mostly from small-scale, short, projects• What opportunities are there

for at scale, or systemic collaboration?• Which efforts should be

prolonged and researched, to generate evidence?


Joint action complicates results attribution• Why would Ministries and

Departments contribute?• How are sectors rewarded

for joint results?• Does donor funding

encourage collaboration?


Joint action complicates results attribution• Why would Ministries and

Departments contribute?• How are sectors rewarded

for joint results?• Does donor funding

encourage collaboration?

Collaborative action will entail:1. More Nutrition action in WASH policies2. More WASH action in Nutrition policies3. Making each more sensitive to the other• How do governments then

articulate policies between two multisectoral issues?

Cost efficiencies could be a strong argument, but remain vague• Which efficiencies, from

which actions and delivery platforms, are worth quantifying first and better?

The collaborations needed are very diverse• How to foster complex matrices

of collaborations, for each action, situation, and level?• Might joint planning be easier

for local governments, than joint policy development is for central governments? What capacities do they need?

Linkage experiences and evidence are mostly from small-scale, short, projects• What opportunities are there

for at scale, or systemic collaboration?• Which efforts should be

prolonged and researched, to generate evidence?

Healthcare

Scaling Up Nutrition - European Development Days 2016