MQSUN⁺ utilises a ‘learning by doing’ approach—being both adaptive and specific to the context of each technical assistance request—and applies those learnings to future support. To reinforce this process, the project cultivates efforts to discuss and document lessons learnt to inform decision making and prioritisation within and between country contexts and to strengthen the global knowledge base on the experiences of addressing undernutrition. This approach facilitates effective knowledge management and capacity strengthening that underlines all of MQSUN⁺’s technical assistance efforts.

The project implements an evidence-based capacity-strengthening strategy to support the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) and Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) country government teams’ understanding and awareness of nutrition interventions and strategies. Capacity strengthening is the transformation that empowers different entities to instil change—in this case, for improving nutrition. MQSUN⁺’s capacity-building efforts focus on strengthening capacity at different levels: at the policy and legislative level, at the organisational and structural level and at the individual level. This multipronged approach includes remote guidance and support, learning opportunities during country visits and workshop presentations and formal trainings, as requested.