Provide guidance to standardise the categorisation of “nutrition-specific” and “nutrition-sensitive” interventions.
Develop options to harmonise the “weighting” of the interventions, especially the nutrition-sensitive ones.
In response to these requests, SPRING, Results for Development (R4D), and the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement (SUN) Secretariat have convened a group of global technical experts to provide further guidance to researchers, donors, and government agencies responsible for analyzing nutrition financing (allocations and/or expenditures).
The first meeting of this Technical Consultation group was held in conjunction with the SUN Global Gathering in October 2015 in Milan, Italy. The second meeting, held at SPRING’s Headquarters in Washington, DC, took place in November 2015. The two-day November meeting was useful to better understand what the key methodological limitations are and to identify possible ways forward.
The series will culminate in early 2016 with a multi-day meeting at R4D’s Headquarters to share the group’s findings with a wider audience including regional stakeholders and donor and UN representatives. Consultation participants include representatives from organizations that are currently working to develop nutrition financing guidance, as well as representatives from several countries with experience using such tools for their own nutrition budgeting and expenditure tracking. This joint effort should move the topic of nutrition financing several steps forward by answering to key challenges identified with estimating and tracking nutrition budget and expenditures.