Toilets for Nutrition

1. SUN Movement
Collaboration across WASH and Nutrition
June 16th, Brussels
Sergio Cooper Teixeira

2. 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

3. 57 countries and States of Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh committed to SUN
Evolution of Countries
and States
committed to SUN
2010 Launch
2011 19
2012 33
2013 41 + 1
2014 54 + 1
2015 56 + 1
2016 57 + 2

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

5. In each SUN country:
• SUN Government Focal Point engages sectors and stakeholders in platform
• SUN Networks shift resources and align actions with country efforts

6. SUN Movement guided by Principles of Engagement rather than formulas

7. 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

8. Linking WASH-Nutrition: consensus and challenges in policy-budget cycle
Linked policy-making will entail:
1. More Nutrition action in WASH policies
2. More WASH action in Nutrition policies
3. Making each more sensitive to the other
• How do governments articulate
policies of two multisectoral
issues?

9. 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?

10. Linking WASH-Nutrition: consensus and challenges in policy-budget cycle
Cost efficiencies could be a strong
argument, but remain vague
• Which efficiencies, from which
actions and delivery platforms, are
worth quantifying first and better?

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

12. Linking WASH-Nutrition: consensus and challenges in policy-budget cycle
Joint action complicates results
attribution
• Why would Ministries and
Departments contribute?
• How are sectors rewarded for
joint results?
• Does donor funding encourage
collaboration?

13. Linking WASH-Nutrition: consensus and challenges in policy-budget cycle
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 policies
2. More WASH action in Nutrition policies
3. 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?