Guidance & Tools

MULTISECTORAL PLANNING FOR NUTRITION: Conducting a Contextual Analysis for Nutrition

A nutrition contextual analysis considers the key factors affecting nutrition in a country and how stakeholders are assessing and addressing those factors. It should consider not only nutritional status but also other related needs and expectations, so as to support setting priorities for a policy, strategy or plan. This tool is an outline for a […]

October 23, 2020

Gender Guidance for Nutrition-Related Programmes

Nutrition-related programmes should strive towards ensuring equality of opportunity by at least considering gender-related barriers, with ultimately, equity of outcomes as the end goal. Achieving this will likely require not only avoiding a gender-blind approach (which is at times erroneously assumed to be a gender-neutral one), to instead being at least gender-sensitive (considering gender), or—preferably—being […]

October 13, 2020

Organising a Resource Mobilisation Roundtable Event to Scale up Nutrition at the Country Level

A growing number of countries have joined the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement and its vision for a world free from malnutrition in all its forms, as outlined in the SUN Movement Strategy and Roadmap (2016–2020). As part of this vision, many countries in the SUN Movement have developed, adopted and costed a multisectoral nutrition […]

October 2, 2020

Conducting Financial Gap Analysis of Multisectoral Nutrition Plans

To successfully advocate for funding for a multisectoral nutrition plan (MSNP), it is not only important to know how much the plan costs (i.e. its budget), but it is equally if not more important to identify the financial gaps of the plan. A financial gap analysis provides information for understanding the extent to which funds […]

Resource Mobilisation for Scaling Up Nutrition: Advocacy Tools and Resources for Country Action

A growing number of countries have joined the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement and its vision for a world free from malnutrition in all its forms, as outlined in the SUN Movement Strategy and Roadmap (2016–2020). As part of this vision, many countries in the SUN Movement have developed, adopted and costed a multisectoral nutrition […]

COVID-Sensitive Nutrition Marketing Messages for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in SUN Countries

In early May 2020, a survey of food system small and medium enterprises (SME) in 17 countries was conducted by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) through national Scaling Up Nutrition Business Networks (SBN), convened by GAIN, the World Food Programme, and other partners. The survey aimed to assess the impacts of the COVID-19 […]

July 20, 2020

Supplemental guidance for the SUN budget analysis

Since 2015, budget analysis work based on the SUN Approach has been conducted by 50 countries and has provided valuable insights into the nature of government spending allocations to nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive areas. The SUN Movement has recognised that there is a growing need to support SUN member countries through replicability and refinement of the […]

April 13, 2020

Approaches for Nutrition Costing and Financial Tracking in SUN Countries

Since 2013, Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) countries have made major strides to bring together different stakeholders from multiple sectors to align national efforts to end malnutrition. There is a growing understanding of the importance of estimating the financial costs of national nutrition programmes and tracking the financing for nutrition interventions at the country level, as […]

Assessing readiness for costing of a common results framework or national nutrition plan

The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement is a global movement to catalyse country action towards ending malnutrition in all its forms. Member countries commit to developing a framework to prioritise multisectoral nutrition actions for coordinated implementation. Whilst the shape and form vary across countries, this is typically referred to as a common results framework (CRF)—often […]

July 19, 2019

Where Business and Nutrition Meet: Review of Approaches and Evidence on Private Sector Engagement in Nutrition

The United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) encourages private sector investment in strengthening ‘national and global food systems to make nutritious diets more affordable and accessible to the poor, in particular for women, adolescent girls and children’ and in ‘healthier and more productive workforces […] as part of […] responsible and sustainable growth strategies’ […]

June 15, 2018