Global publications

Strengthening the monitoring of a national multisectoral nutrition plan

The 2021 Lancet Serie on Nutrition calls for continuing multi-sectoral strategies and for more contextualised strategies to alleviate malnutrition and reach the 2025 targets. To do so, policy makers are in a critical need of contextualised, multi-sectoral and robust information.

In Côte d‘Ivoire, the Government decided to engage with the NIPN initiative to strengthen the monitoring of the National Multisectoral Plan of Action on Nutrition and provide adequate information to policy makers. This case study describes how, concretely, the NIPN platform contributed to improving the M&E of the action plan and the lessons learned along the way. Access the report HERE.

Aligning with food and nutrition security priorities

This case study shares experiences and lessons learned about NIPN’s integration into Ethiopia’s multisectoral, multistakeholder mechanisms for nutrition. The project applied a comprehensive and inclusive approach. To which extent did this approach enhance the multisectoral food security and nutrition coordination? The case study aims to provide guidance to other NIPN countries on how to better align NIPN activities for the benefit of national nutrition plan and programme implementation. The report can be downloaded HERE.

NIPN Capacity Development Mapping Exercise

Capacity development is a key focus area for C4N-NIPN Global Coordination. This stock-taking exercise identified a broad range of capacity development activities across the NIPNs, including topics such as training on data analysis and data quality, formulation of policy questions, basics of nutrition and leadership skills. The exercise also revealed capacity-strengthening needs in a number of areas, including: ensuring data quality standards, tools and expertise for the process of verifying data quality, generating policy questions, defining knowledge gaps and areas of focus for statisticians and data analysts and in packaging data for use in decision-making. The full report is available HERE.

Implementing decentralised information platforms in Guatemala

This case study describes and reflects on the process of establishing an information platform for food and nutrition security at local level in Momostenango, Guatemala. Internationally there is increasing interest in understanding how decentralised public administrations and other stakeholders can engage in and make use of data and information for better nutrition results. Decentralised information platforms for nutrition are still rare and the Momostenango platform, which resulted in establishment of six more local information platforms for nutrition, is one of few one of few examples that can be studied in detail. The report can be accessed HERE.

N4G summit: shaping commitments to improve nutrition

The Nutrition Data Partner Group has released a brief aiming at advising governments, donors and development partners on the formulation of data-specific commitment for the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit which will take place in Tokyo at the end of the year, 7-8 December. Sample commitments that can be adapted to country contexts can also be found in the short paper: “investing in information platforms at central or decentralized level to support decision making” is one of them. The full document can be accessed HERE.