SUN CSN - Learning Route Start-up meeting 2016 -3. learning routes background

1. How did we get
here?

2. 1. A global network of Civil Society Alliances and
members that has continued to grow… You!
2. Requests for information on:
1. Advocacy planning
2. Budget analysis and advocacy
3. Governance and management of civil society alliances.
4. Working with government and other stakeholders.
3. Need for innovative ways of learning, sharing and
building on civil society alliance impact and activity.
4. We learn from best from experience and from each
other

3. Aims of learning route
• CSAs become stronger nutrition advocates
and support the delivery of national nutrition
priorities
• CSAs increase national government
understanding and prioritisation of nutrition
• CSAs hold governments accountable for
delivering on nutrition commitments

4. Countries with established civil society alliances
Countries with civil society alliances in the process of
being established (Cote d’Ivoire, Mauritania and Togo)
In 2014/5 CSAs established or in the
process of establishing in 33 countries
globally

5. In 2015/16 CSAs established in 39
countries globally

8. Figure 2. Number of Civil Society Alliances in each region including those in process of establishment
2014/15 CSA regional composition

9. Year of Civil Society Alliance
Establishment
Year CSA established Number
2006 Peru
1
2009 Ivory Coast
1
2011 Tanzania, Niger, Mali
3
2012 Bangladesh, Ghana, Zambia
3
2013 Ethiopia, Kenya, Kyrgyz Republic, Laos, Madagascar, Malawi,
Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda
11
2014 Burundi, Cameroon, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guinea, Nepal,
Pakistan, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe
10
Total responses from survey 29

10. 2014/15 CSA Membership Local vs.
International NGOS

11. 2014/15 Number of CSAs engaged in
advocacy initiatives at different scales

12. Learning from each other – West Africa Advocacy Workshop

13. 2014/15 % of CSAs contributing to key
national processes

14. 2014/15 Key needs expressed No.
Capacity development 11
Institutional development (ways of working/ToR etc.) 10
Financial support (linked to sustainability in long-term & financial
management) 10
Advocacy, communications, strategies & approaches 9
Experience sharing 6
Sustainability planning 5
Knowledge management & dissemination 4
(55 total as
could mark
more than
one option)

15. 2015 Evaluation of SUN identified
need for
• Technical support and expertise to be shared between
CSAs and their participating CSOs.
• Civil society learning routes as a means of sharing
lessons about how to be an effective CSA.
• Agreeing global level policies and policy guidance
particularly around the following;
– Rights-based and food sovereignty approaches;
– Governance of natural resources, global trade, biodiversity,
food waste, shortage, obesogenic products, business
engagement;
• Making multi-stakeholder platforms really functional
and building capacity to deliver scaled up actions.

16. Support requests received 2013 - 2015

18. Vision for country support to civil
society alliances
1. Provide predictable, coherent systematic support to CSAs
2. Effective, efficient knowledge management and sharing within
the network
3. Tailored technical assistance from within and ensuring links with
external providers where required
4. Understand formal and informal support processes currently in
place
5. Support capability efforts within the SUN movement
6. Provide useful, timely documentation to CSAs
7. Enable & strengthen cross learning through linking CSAs
8. Minimise duplication of efforts
9. Strengthen documentation of progress and evidence of impact
10. Improve mechanisms for enabling accountability at all scales
within the network

19. Learning from observation & experience – walk in the night
market of Yangon, Myanmar CSA

20. Learning
visually.
Through
individual
reflection
and shared
communicati
on –
Bangladesh
CSA
children’s
drawing
competition