1) The document discusses stocktaking and potential priorities for the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Community of Practice (COP1) meeting in 2015, based on publications by Action Contre la Faim (ACF) on aid for nutrition. 2) It notes several issues including a lack of alignment between country costed plans, the OECD DAC nutrition code, and SUN definitions of nutrition-specific interventions. Disaggregated data by intervention is also lacking. 3) ACF advocates for longer funding cycles for nutrition-specific interventions like acute malnutrition management, and increasing domestic investment alongside external funding for comprehensive nutrition packages. ACF staff are actively advocating in relevant subgroups.

1. Sandra Mutuma (ACF)
Stocktaking
Planning, Costing and Financing
Community of Practice
Kaia Engesveen (WHO)
Tina Lloren (FANTA)
Questions

2. Stock-taking and potential
priorities for COP1 2015
Based on ACF Aid for Nutrition
publications
Sandra Mutuma
Senior Nutrition Advisor

3. Sun COP1: ACF
• Tracking of nutrition specific
interventions needs to
improve to minimise
overestimation of aid for
nutrition-specific
interventions
• Lack of alignment between
SUN country costed plans for
direct nutrition interventions,
OECD DAC Basic Nutrition
code and the SUN nutrition-
specific interventions
• Disaggregated data per nutrition-specific
intervention is a major data gap and can be a
feature of a minimum standard of reporting, aid
transparency, effective identification of funding
and intervention gaps and assist advocacy and
policy prioritisation
• OECD Basic Nutrition code includes household
food security, school feeding and research/surveys
• Advocating for, and tracking investments to
increase nutrition capacity in addition to tracking
interventions is important
• Need alignment of domestic and external
definitions and reporting procedures for
nutrition- specific interventions

4. SUN COP1: ACF
• Minimal funding was invested in
nutrition programmes that
incorporated interventions from all 3
categories of proven direct
interventions (ACF Aid for Nutrition,
2012 and 2013)
• Short-term funding cycles for
nutrition-specific interventions
particularly acute malnutrition
management
• Coordinated donor funding for a
comprehensive minimum package of
nutrition-specific interventions
• ACF will be advocating for longer
external funding cycles for nutrition-
specific interventions, 5 years+
supported by increasing domestic
investment
• ACF has dedicated 3 staff members to
advocacy in this area active in SUN
COP1, ICAN Accountability and
Financing sub-groups
• ACF will be undertaking detailed
tracking of French aid and potentially
UK, Spain, USA and Canada (TBC)
too.