8July2016 - SUN LR Kickoff and SUN Alliance profiling workshop. Presentation about the LR program objectives and LR in Rwanda. Cecilia Ruberto

1. Learning Route Program Overview
Cecilia Ruberto, SUN Civil Society Learning Route
Program Coordinator
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2. SUN Networks align their efforts behind country led plans for
nutrition
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39 SUN countries with established Civil Society Alliances
(CSAs)

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Areas of intervention of the SUN Civil Society Alliances

5. General coordinates
• Funded by the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)
• Two learning routes, one in South East Africa (Rwanda), one in Asia,
at least 14 Civil Society Alliances (CSAs)
• Timeframe: 2nd February 2015 to 31st January 2018 (2015 inception
phase, 2016-2017 implementation)
• Cost: £1,009,038
• Coordination: SUN CSN Secretariat
• Best practices systematization and learning exchanges facilitation:
PROCASUR Corporation
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6. What is a Learning Route?
• A Learning Route is a capacity building tool, developed by Procasur
Corporation, designed as a facilitated planned journey with specific
learning objectives.
• A LR is an on-going peer-to-peer training process that makes room
for discussion, analysis and reflection, while encouraging an active
and mutual knowledge exchange between participants and their
hosts.
• Best Practices: the process that led to the success constitutes the
heart of the Learning Program
• Key people in the host country (we call them ‘Local Champions’)
lead the learning routes and act as the trainers.
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7. Learning themes
• Policy review, policy tracking, participatory and democratic
processes;
• Engagement and stimulation of multi stakeholder platforms
• Budget tracking, data collection and sharing
• Advocacy
• Social mobilization and campaign/ Communication
• Good governance
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8. Learning Route objectives
• To enhance CSAs Social Mobilisation, Advocacy and
Communications skills to become stronger nutrition advocates and
support the delivery of national nutrition priorities
• CSAs use budget tracking and advocacy skills to hold
governments accountable for delivering on nutrition commitments.
• Learn from the CSAs and share learning with the SUN community of
practice.
• Increase national government understanding and prioritisation of
nutrition
CIFF Outcome: “Nutrition policies, plans and strategies for improved
delivery and accountability on nutrition commitments are operationalized”
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9. Learning targets
• At least 14 CSAs involved in 2 learning route
• At least 60 individuals representing 14 CSAs participate
to the LR (50% women)
• At least 200 CSOs are aware of innovation plans/new
ideas discussed during LR and 100 CSOs are “gaining”
from the participants’ learnings and new ideas (action plan).
• At least 50% of the innovation plans are implemented
• At least 5 CSAs are actively supporting each other
• At least 10 CSAs participating, recognize benefits
associated to the Theory of Change expected outcomes
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10. Africa Learning Needs Survey
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More about: Learning Route survey
• Unpack the macro-learning areas identified during the
inception phase
• To define learning route core learning areas: matching
needs and expertise
• Sets the baseline of the project, profiling CSAs
intervention (complemented by Annual Survey)

11. Survey findings
Anglophone Africa
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Learning needs and expertise matching
(Anglof Africa LR)
This is a snapshot: complete learning matching available here

13. Learning Route Anglophone Africa
• Foster regional hub (South-East region)
11 CSAs applied in Africa
• Rwanda selected as Learning Route
Country Host
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Ethiopia
Kenya
Malawi
Rwanda
Sierra Leone
Namibia
Nigeria
Tanzania
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe

14. Learning Route in Rwanda: Why?
• The young Alliance is increasingly getting stronger and influential
within member CSOs & Governmental institution.
• The Alliance has clear governance tools that ensures CSOs
participation, representation and decentralized intervention with clear
overall strategy.
• Successful experiences that match with the Learning Route audience
needs
• Great proactivity and receptiveness of the CSOs leads in sharing and
discussing limits, gaps, challenges of the Alliance and interest in
learning from other CSAs.
• Great interest of Donors and UN in having a strong and visible CSAs
that collectively advocate and engage at national and decentralized
level for effective strategies to eliminate malnutrition.
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15. Areas of learning Rwanda
• Policy review
• Advocacy
• Campaign and social mobilization
• Governance
• Multi-stakeholders platform engagement
• Integrated approach to eliminate malnutrition
• Collaboration among multi-actors: gov, non gov, international and
small ngos
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16. Milestones
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Year Month Africa Asia
2016 February Workplan, Kickoff Africa LR & Planning
(info)
2016 March-April CSAs Learning Needs, and expertise
to offer survey (info)
2016 June LR hosting country selection (info)
2016 July Systematization of the best practices
(LR Africa)
Kickoff Asia LR
2016 July-August Learning material preparation
Technical report, participants selection
CSAs Learning Needs, and
expertise to offer survey
2016 October SUN Learning Route in Rwanda. LR country host selection
2016
2017
October-
February
Action plans implementation and CSA
mutual support.
Systematization of the best
practices ( LR in Asia)
2017 February-
March
Participatory Evaluation. Learning Route Asia

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Thank you!
Cecilia Ruberto, SUN Learning Route Program Coordinator
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