Guidance & Tools

GUIDANCE NOTE: Subnational Budget Analysis for Scaling Up Nutrition

The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement’s 2013 State of the SUN Movement Progress Report outlined the importance of resource availability for meeting nutrition goals and the challenges of tracking financing. Following the publication of this report, SUN countries committed to improving financial tracking of resources for nutrition. This has focused primarily on the national level; […]

April 16, 2018

Subnational Budget Analysis for Scaling Up Nutrition: An overview of subnational government financing in SUN countries

Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) countries have been conducting national government budgetary expenditure analysis of nutrition-specific (e.g., school feeding programmes) and nutrition-sensitive (e.g., water and sanitation projects) investments. As of 2016, 47 countries have reported conducting the analysis, with 22 carrying it out more than once. This analysis has proven to be invaluable at both the […]

Multisectoral Planning for Nutrition

This guidance note focuses on the basic requirements for effective multisectoral planning towards common nutrition results. The process involves determining common pathways for sectoral strategies and aligning sectoral plans to nutrition targets. This note is meant to serve as a reference for countries engaged in developing multisectoral plans. It is not a blueprint to be followed step […]

April 25, 2016

How to Estimate the Costs of Nutrition-sensitive Actions in a Common Results Framework: A Guidance Note

The development of a common results framework (CRF) is a complex process which includes but is not limited to: agreeing on common goals with sectoral partners; development of operational plans; cost estimation of actions; setting priorities; as well as continuous rigorous monitoring and evaluation. This guidance note presents the basic requirements for estimating the costs […]

April 15, 2016

Nutrition Topic Guide

This topic guide has been compiled to provide an overview of undernutrition in the context of development. It covers the nature, scale and complex range of causes of undernutrition and summarises the evidence for what works to address the problem. The guide covers direct nutrition interventions (also known as nutrition-specific), indirect interventions (nutrition-sensitive) and the […]

October 25, 2013

Investigating Country Efforts in Scaling Up Nutrition in 20+ SUN Countries

On 30 September 2013, Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition (MQSUN) hosted an event/webinar on Investigating Country Efforts in Scaling Up Nutrition in 20+ Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Countries. Over the past year, MQSUN has been working closely with the SUN Movement Secretariat on scaling up nutrition efforts in 20+ countries. These activities include: […]

October 14, 2013