Sharing successes from Nutrition Advocacy Project in Nigeria, Under the PACFaH project

1. EXPERIENCE SHARING: CSOS
COMMITMENT FOR NUTRITION
Okoronkwo Sunday (Project Manager CS-SUNN)

2. The SUN approach to Scaling Up Nutrition
Country
governments
lead national
efforts to scale
up nutrition.
Within each
country a
SUN Focal
Point is
identified

3. The SUN approach to Scaling Up Nutrition
The Focal Point brings people
together in a
multi-stakeholder platform
Technical
Community
United
Nations
Government
Partners
Civil Society
Donors
Business

4. The SUN approach to Scaling Up Nutrition
The multi-
stakeholder
platform
Works to align
and coordinate
action across
sectors.
Women’s
Empowerme
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Health
Developme
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Reduction
Agriculture
Education
Social
Protection

5. With overall support and
coordination provided by
the
SUN Secretariat
and
SUN Lead Group
Country
Network
Donor
Network
Civil Society
Network
Business
Network
United
Nations
Network
Global Networks
of stakeholders shift
resources &
align actions to support
country efforts.
The SUN approach to Scaling Up Nutrition

6. Nigeria CSA?
•CS-SUNN is a non-
governmental, non-profit
making coalition, made up
of organizations with a
shared vision to transform
Nigeria into a country
where every citizen has
food and is nutrition
secured.

7. OUR
•To transform Nigeria into a country where every
citizen has food and is nutrition secured

8. Our Mission
To mobilize non-state actors to advocate, generate evidence, build capacity
and stimulate communities and stakeholders to scale-up nutrition in Nigeria.

9. We are a coalition designed with a:
• common goal,
• clearly defined roles and responsibilities,
• clear accountability and sustainability
framework.
• Our guiding principles includes;
Evidence based decision making,
Gender mainstreaming, Equity, Feed-
back, Diversity, Value for money,
Transparency and Integrity

10. Our Strategy
The alliance has developed a clear strategy which
includes:
•Working in partnership with other local organizations
and other State Actors
•Adopting multi-sectoral approaches aimed at
building local ownership, scaling-up and building
local capacity.
•Independence by maintaining its independent
point of view and taking a stand on contentious
issues based on evidence.
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11. We are committed To:
•Evidence generation
and communication

12. We are Committed
•Partnership Building
We are a platform through
which Civil Society
Organizations and all
nutrition stakeholders can
effectively engage for
improved nutrition in Nigeria
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13. We are committed To:
•Build capacity of CS-
SUNN members,
Non-state actors,
state actors for
pursuit of improved
nutrition in Nigeria.
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14. We are committed To:
•Mobilization of
state and non-
state actors

15. We are committed To:
Advocacy for:
• Effective coordination of all nutrition
stakeholders and programmes in Nigeria
• Government to create nutrition budget
lines in some key Federal and state
Ministries in Nigeria as well as include CSOs
in nutrition interventions as appropriate
• Establishment of an effective and
functional nutrition surveillance monitoring
and evaluation systems
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16. Generating Evidence• What were the Issues? • Mapping stakeholders

17. Generating Evidence for budget advocacy

18. Communicating finding: Tools for engagement

19. Communicating finding: Succinct and
easy to understand

20. Mobilization/coalition budilding
CSOs/FBOs
capacity
building
•1. Kaduna
•2. FCT
•3. Kaduna
•4. Niger

21. Mobilizing CSOs @ the National

22. Advocacy visits/meetings
With Niger state governor With Niger Speaker and key legislators
governor

23. Advocacy visits/meetings
With Former Comm. Of HHS Kaduna and High level Advocacy meeting With former Com. Of WA KD

24. Engaging for change: Advocacy Visits/meeting
With Niger state governor’s wife, commissioner of health, PS during
Niger state high level advocacy engagement

25. Advocacy visits/meetings
With Nasarawa state governor’s wife, commissioner of health, PS during Nasarawa state high level advocacy engagement

26. Engaging with MoBNP

27. Formal launching of NSPAN: Sensitization

28. DISSEMINATION OF BUDGET INFOGRAPHIC/SCORECARD TO PS
and Directors from Niger, Nasarawa and Kaduna state

29. Legislative retreat in Lagos: Niger State

30. Summary of results
CS-SUNN conducted 23 advocacies at the Federal and 3 states and
advocacy targets included: Government Personnel in line Ministries,
Legislators in the State Houses of Assembly. The results of the advocacies
were successful as they led to:
• The creation of budget lines for nutrition in Kaduna and Nasarawa state and
increased funding allocation to the lines in the 2017 budget.
• Increased percentage of allocation to the Health sector in 2017. Kaduna state health
allocation increased to 11.40% from 7.37% in 2014, capital releases increased to 57%
from 29% and from 8.9% in 2016 to 11.6% in 2017.
• Advocacy engagement at the state level also led to increased funding for nutrition in
Kaduna, Niger and Nasarawa. Kaduna state has the highest percentage allocation to
nutrition with 980 million naira (3.7%) of the total health budget (26.5 billion naira). Niger
state allocated 60 million naira for nutrition which accounts for just 0.44% of the health
budget (13.6 billion naira) while Nasarawa state allocated 21.5 million naira which is
0.31% of the health sector budget.