SUN CSN - Learning Route Start-up meeting 2016 -5. learning route grant coordinates

1. Learning Routes Program
Our learning program to share our good practices, discuss about
challenges and possible solutions: let innovations and new ideas
travel across the network, across the world, through different
stakeholders.
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2. • Funded by the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)
• Two learning routes, one in South East Africa, one in Asia, at
least 14 CSAs
• Timeframe: 2nd February 2015 to 31st January 2018 (2015
inception phase, 2016-2017 implementation)
• Cost: £1,009,038
• Coordination: SUN CSN Secretariat
• Best practices systematization and learning exchanges
facilitation: PROCASUR Corporation
• Collaboration with Emergency Nutrition Network in
Knowledge Management and communication strategy
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Grant Coordinates

3. Learning Goal
To contribute to stronger, more aligned civil society
alliances with the capacity to actively contribute to
national efforts while responding to needs on the
ground. CSAs are able to effectively contribute to
multi-stakeholder platforms and CSAs will promote
cascade capacity strengthening of their alliance
members (from villages and communities to
municipalities to districts / regions / provinces /
counties to national level actors).
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4. Objectives
• To enhance CSAs Social Mobilisation, Advocacy and
Communications skills to become stronger nutrition
advocates and support the delivery of national nutrition
priorities
• CSAs use budget tracking and advocacy skills to hold
governments accountable for delivering on nutrition
commitments.
• Learn from the CSAs and share learning with the SUN
community of practice.
• Increase national government understanding and
prioritisation of nutrition
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5. Theory of Change
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CIFF Outcome
SUN Interm-
Outcomes
SUN Outcomes

6. Macro areas of learning
• Policy review, policy tracking, communication,
participatory/democratic processes
• Engagement and stimulation of multi stakeholder
platforms
• Budget tracking, advocacy, communication, data
collection and sharing for monitoring and
accountability
• Advocacy, social mobilization, campaign development,
communication for accountability and awareness
• Good governance, accountability and participatory
processes
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7. How: Opportunities and Challenges
• Inclusion (map out key stakeholders…)
• Knowledge sharing mechanisms: sustainable and
participatory (KM and Comm strategy)
• Participants as agents of change
• Mapping our champions/talents, best practices:
resource for the network to easier communication,
increased visibility and demonstrate cross-learning
effectiveness
• Participatory monitoring evaluation as integral activity
of the learning program (Follow-up)
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8. Presentation of the program
to the SUN CSN and
discussion with nominated
CSA about methodology.
2016
February: Workplan, Kickoff & Planning wt Hosting CSAs
March: ESA CSAs learnig needs and offer; Reporting &
Budgeting
April: Systematization of the best practices (ESA)
May: Learning material preparation, participants selection
June/July ESA Learning Route
August/September: Sharing/disussion of the LR
experience with SUN movement – Asia CSAs learnig needs
and offer
September: Asia learning route kick start meeting
August-December Learning follow-up: innovation/action
plans implementation
November: Systematization of the best practices (Asia)
2017
January : Sharing/disussion about
learning outcomes ESA learning route
(how the learning was applied)
February/March: Asia learning route
April: Sharing/disussion of the LR
experience with SUN movement
April-September: Learning follow-up:
innovation/action plans implementati
November: Learning route closure eve
wt SUN movement, program outcome
lessons learned, opportunities,
limitations, what next?
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Tentative timeframe

9. Thank you!
Most importantly: any questions?
Cecilia Ruberto, SUN CSN Learning Route Coordinator, C.Ruberto@savethechildren.org.uk 9