2023 NIPN ANNUAL REPORT
The NIPN Annual Report presents brief highlights from the work of the NIPN country platforms and NIPN Global Coordination during 2022. Over the year, the NIPN initiative was implemented by eight countries: Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kenya, Lao PDR, Niger, and Uganda. The 2022 NIPN Annual Report is available HERE.
NIPN CONTRIBUTION STUDY
C4N-NIPN Global Coordination has commissioned the N4D group to conduct a contribution study to assess the performance of the NIPN initiative and the extent to which its activities have contributed to strengthening the nutrition data environment. The objectives of the contribution study were:
– to assess the level of achievement of NIPN outputs during phase 1;
– to understand the extent to which NIPN is contributing to changes (positive or negative) into nutrition data environment in countries;
– to provide actionable recommendations that inform the future implementation.
The report can be downloaded HERE.
2022 NIPN ANNUAL REPORT
The NIPN Annual Report presents brief highlights from the work of the NIPN country platforms and NIPN Global Coordination during 2022. Over the year, the NIPN initiative was implemented by eight countries: Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kenya, Lao PDR, Niger, and Uganda. The 2022 NIPN Annual Report is available HERE.
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.
LESSONS LEARNED FROM NIPN PHASE I: DESIGNING EFFECTIVE MULTISECTORAL NUTRITION COLLABORATION
This report provides insights and lessons learned from the design, set-up and early implementation of highly complex multisectoral collaboration of NIPNs in nine different country and institutional contexts. Effective evidence-based multisectoral policy dialogue can be achieved through realising the collaborative advantage. The brief outlines in detail lessons learnt for the design and set-up of platforms to help overcome challenges, in particular it highlights conditions for successful collaboration: leadership, alignment of objectives, roles and responsibilities, equal power balance and adequate capacities. Report available HERE.
INSPIRING THE SHIFT FROM NUTRITION POLICY TO IMPLEMENTATION
This document is a synthesis in English of a more comprehensive report in Spanish, from an analysis of progress in implementing multisectoral stunting reduction strategies in Guatemala, and more specifically with regard to the budget allocation to nutrition over the past 12 years. Available in English HERE