Project profile — Scaling Up Nutrition Movement Secretariat - 2016

The expected results for this project include: (1) enhanced political attention to malnutrition; (2) increased investments in nutrition; (3) stakeholders respond to the needs of SUN countries in a timely and effective way and contribute to responsive and aligned assistance to SUN countries; and (4) increased capacity of SUN countries to bring together national stakeholders and implement effective actions to scale up nutrition.

Results achieved as of the end of the project (September 2018) include: (1) the Secretariat advanced its work on gender equality and women’s socio-economic empowerment, food systems, and nutrition in fragile situations, and leveraged finance for nutrition; (2) 53 countries are using inclusive platforms to rally all stakeholders behind one vision, one plan, one budget and one monitoring and evaluation system to achieve their goals; (3) the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) System was launched and used to compare country data at the global level, which helps inform reports, advocacy, and implementation; (4) the Secretariat continued to strengthen capacity in countries to support multisectoral nutrition plans, which resulted in 15 new country plans in 2018; (5) three countries and one Indian state joined the SUN movement from 2016 to 2018; (6) in 2017-2018, nine member countries saw a decrease in rates of childhood stunting; and (7) the Secretariat contributed to a range of high profile global events to increase nutrition profile including the United Nations General Assembly and the World Health Assembly.