SUN Civil Society Learning Route: innovation plan submitted by the National Civil Society alliance. More info: http://suncivilsocietynet.wixsite.com/learningroute/rwanda-learning-route or contact C.Ruberto@savethechildren.org.uk

1. INNOVATION PLAN FORM
Guidelines for the design of the Innovation Plan
The design of the Innovation Plan intends to support participants in capitalising on the knowledge acquired
during the Learning Route in Rwanda, transforming this knowledge into practical actions to strengthen SUN
Civil Societies Alliances’ coordinated activities to address malnutrition.
The Innovation Plan has to be framed within the strategies and initiatives currently carried out by Civil
Society Organizations, part of the SUN Alliances, participating in the Learning Route. The Plan aims to
enhance the results of on-going activities, adding value to existing initiative and furthering efforts made by
Civil Society to improve nutrition in their own countries.
The Innovation Plan will have to address, through an integrated approach, at least two out of five of the
thematic areas of the Learning Route:
I. Advocacy
II. Policy review and policy tracking
III. Campaign and social mobilisation
IV. Multi-stakeholder coordination
V. Communication for behavioural change
VI. Integrated approaches to fight malnutrition
VII. Governance
The Innovation Plan must be the result of your coordinated work as Country Team and representatives of
the SUN Civil Society Alliance (CSA) of your country. Take this opportunity to work together, consolidate
existing partnerships and open-up opportunities for new collaborations!
Very important! The timeframe of your Innovation Plan should not exceed 6 months.

2. Key criteria for the self-assessment of the Innovation Plan
Here you can find some smart criteria to assess the quality of your Innovation Plan. We suggest you to
check them carefully and try to score your Plan before delivering it.
CRITERIA GUIDING QUESTIONS
1. INNOVATION (a) Is the proposal referring to experiences that can be considered innovative in your
country, in relation to the strategies, approaches or methodologies employed?
(b) Does the Plan have the potential to contribute substantially to address nutrition-
related issues at country level?
(c) Does this Plan have potential to be scaled-up?
(d) Is it feasible to implement the Plan with the stakeholders’ available human and
financial resources and in the proposed timeframe?
2. SUSTAINABILITY
AND GOVERNANCE
(e) Sustainability: Can the changes of the Plan be sustained beyond the timeframe of 6
months?
(f) SUN Civil Society Alliance: is the Plan contributing to the long-term goals of the SUN
CSA and its sustainability?
(g) Governance: Does the Plan apply inclusive, participatory and transparent
approach/management?
(h) Collaboration and mutual support: does the plan contribute to the enhancement of
collaboration, learning and mutual support among CSAs of the region?
3. CLEARNESS AND
GENERAL QUALITY
(i) Is the Plan presenting, with a clear and direct language, the opportunities and
challenges that are going to be addressed?
(j) Are the stakeholders clearly described?
(k) Are the objectives clearly defined?
(l) Are the activities result-oriented?
INNOVATION PLAN - SOME KEY CONCEPTS
Change What is the change you would you like to achieve with this Innovation Plan?
Relevance/
Justification
Why is this relevant for the CSA in your country? Who will benefit from the Plan?
Enabling Factors What kind of favourable conditions, existing today in your country, can enable the
achievement of this Plan?
Main Objectives What are the short-term objectives that lead you to the expected change?
Strategic Actions What strategic actions or innovative practices would be implemented in order to reach these
objectives?
Stakeholders Which organizations and institutions from the Civil Society, public and/or private sector,
donor and/or and international cooperation agencies should be involved in the
implementation of the Plan? What would be their role?
Follow-up and
dissemination
How are you going to evaluate the results of the Innovation Plan and how are you going to
disseminate these results at the national (CSA) and or/ regional level?

3. LEARNING ROUTE
Leveraging the Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Network: building regional platforms to promote
learning on how to address malnutrition
The Learning Route in Rwanda
INNOVATION PLAN FORM
I. OVERVIEW
Country/ Team: Civil Society Scaling up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN)
CSA representatives:
Name Organization
1.Beatrice Eluaka Civil Society Scaling up Nutrition in Nigeria
2. Funmi Akinyele, PhD Food Basket Foundation International
3. Rachael Aji Robinson Heal the Youth Foundation
Innovation Plan´s Title:
IMPROVING NUTRITION THROUGH POLICY IMPLEMENTATION AT ALL LEVELS
Thematic
areas
addressed
by the
Innovation
Plan
Mark Thematic Area
x Advocacy
Social campaign and mobilisation
x Multi-stakeholder coordination
Communication for behavioural change
x Integrated approaches to fight malnutrition
x Governance
1.1 CHANGE
What is this Innovation Plan Innovation Plan for? What is the change you would you like to achieve
with this Innovation Plan? (50 words max.)
Availability of costed, multi-sectoral and implementable National Plan of Action for the revised National
Policy on Food and Nutrition (NPFN), addressing critical emerging issues, e.g., nutrition in the first 1000
days, nutrition in emergencies and upsurge in the prevalence of diet-related non-communicable
diseases, aimed at improving nutrition at all levels.

4. 1.2 CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
What are the main challenges the Innovation Plan is addressing? How does the Plan link to the on-
going initiatives carried out by the SUN CSA in your country to address malnutrition? (75 words max.)
A NPFN, sectoral policies/plans and a coordinating structure (National and State committees on food and
nutrition) are in place. Nutrition Desks and designated nutrition desk officers are available in sectoral
ministries. Despite these enabling factors, coordination of food and nutrition activities is a great
challenge because of the multi-sectoral and multi-disciplinary nature. The proposed plan will be
developed through an inclusive process involving all nutrition-related stakeholders and will harmonize all
the various sectoral plans.
1.3 RELEVANCE AND JUSTIFICATION
Why is this Plan relevant for the CSA in your country? Who will benefit from the Plan? (75 words max.)
Our goal as Nigerian CSA is to have a country where every citizen has food and is nutrition secured. To
achieve this goal the NPFN has to be implemented by government and stakeholders at all levels. This
however cannot be achieved without an implementable plan of action. A costed implementation plan
becomes an advocacy tool to pursue innovative funding for nutrition and for multi-sectoral engagement
and coordination.
II. DESCRIPTION
2.1 OBJECTIVES
What are the Plan´s main objectives? (No words limit)
Objectives
1. To facilitate the development of a multi-sectoral National Action Plan for Nutrition by July 2017
2.2 TARGET GROUPS
Who are the main target groups (direct beneficiaries) and what would be the significant change for
them? Define the main outputs and outcomes (in quantity and quality) of the Innovation Plan. (75
words max.)
Direct Beneficiaries will be health and nutrition workers, agricultural extension workers, education
officers, community workers CSOs and support groups at all levels who will use plan as working
document for implementing nutrition in Nigeria.
Main output: 2000 copies of developed Multi-sectoral National Plan of Action for Nutrition
Outcome will be coordinated implementation of nutrition intervention in Nigeria.
2.3 GOVERNANCE
How will the Plan ensure that all stakeholders will take active part in the decision-making process?

5. What mechanisms will be put in place to guarantee transparent and accountable management of
the Plan’s resources? (75 words max.)
The plan will be developed with participation of all stakeholders. Roles and responsibilities will be
assigned with monitoring and evaluation plans. Mechanisms will be setup for tracking implementation
and budget. CS-SUNN through its steering committee and CSOs will continue its advocacy roles, budget
analysis and budget tracking at National and State levels. Transparent and accountable management of
the plan’s resources will be guaranteed by approval chains, financial reporting, internal and external
auditing of accounts.
2.4 KEY ACTIONS / INITIATIVES
What are the actions or initiatives each stakeholder will have to take in order to achieve the Plan´s
objectives? Link each action to the respective stakeholder/s and the approximate length of time for
implementing the proposed initiatives. (No words limit)
Description of activities per objective Stakeholders´ role Length of time
(when will you
start and how
long will it last?)
1.Objective 1: To facilitate the development of a multi-
sectoral National Action Plan for nutrition by July
2017
Act. 1.1. Engage a consultant to develop a draft plan of
action based on the National Policy on Food and
Nutrition
Act 1.2. Facilitate desk review of previous action plan
and other relevant documents
Act. 1.3. Facilitate 3 meetings of the National
Committee on Food and Nutrition (NCFN) and relevant
stakeholders to review draft plan of action
CS-SUNN in Conjunction
with the NCFN will
identify criteria,
advertise, shortlist and
interview qualified
applicants to select
consultant
Stakeholders (CS-SUNN,
NCFN, and others) will
provide support to the
consultant by providing
relevant information,
data, documents etc.
Facilitate active
participation of all
relevant stakeholders to
ensure adequate buy-in,
February to
March 2017
March to April
2017
March to June
2017

6. ‘
Act. 1.4. Lead the process of advocating for and
securing approval of the final draft by the relevant
government agency
Act. 1. 5. Production of 2000 copies of approved
National Plan of Action on Nutrition
Act. 1. 6. Launch and disseminate plan nationwide
through a one-day dissemination meeting involving
stakeholders at national and state levels.
inclusiveness and
commitment towards
effective implementation
CS-SUNN will facilitate
meetings and contribute
towards the production
and dissemination of
plans
NCFN, CS-SUNN
NCFN, CS-SUNN and
other stakeholders
June to July 2017
July 2017
July 2017
Act. 1.7: Follow-up and Evaluation CS-SUNN Continuous
1.7.1. Develop State-specific scorecards to measure
level of implementation of plan
1.7.2. Conduct Knowledge, Attitudes, Behavior and
Practices (KABP) to assess policy makers in
nutrition, supporting the plan will be carried out at
the State and National levels.
1.7.3. Advocacy meetings by state chapters to
push for implementation of the plan
1.7.4. Policy dialogues will be held to ascertain
challenges, obstacles to implementing the plan
1.7.5. Develop and Disseminate Policy briefs and
fact sheets to secure support form policy makers
2.5 FOLLOW-UP AND DISSEMINATION
How are you going to evaluate and capitalize the results of the Innovation Plan?
 Please consider (if appropriate) to apply qualitative evaluation techniques (e.g. Most
Significant Change, Outcome mapping…)
 How are you going to disseminate these results at the national (CSA) and or/ regional level?

7. CS-SUNN will work with the National Committee on Food and Nutrition to organize a national
dissemination of approved and printed plans and will follow up to monitor the number of states that
have domesticated and are implementing the plan. State-specific scorecards will be developed and
used to measure the level of implementation while Knowledge, Attitudes, Behavior and
Practices (KABP) assessment of policy makers in nutrition, supporting the plan will be carried
out at the State and National levels.
- CS-SUNN State Chapters will hold nutrition stakeholders’ advocacy meetings for the
implementation of the plan in the focal states.
- Policy dialogues will be held to ascertain challenges, obstacles to implementing the plan and
also to show that activities planned in the state were drawn from the state specific plan.
- Policy briefs and fact sheets will be developed and shared during these policy dialogues
2.6 SUN MOVEMENT
How could the SUN Civil Society Network support the implementation of the Innovation Plan? What
capacities need to be built or strengthened? What resources are available and which ones need to be
mobilised to successfully implement the Plan? (50 words max.)
CS-SUNN will support the implementation of this plan and will promote its use to advocate for funding.
We have a network of over 200 CSOs working all over the country whose capacity has been built over
time. The major challenge is funding. We expect that SUN CSN (global) will support with some funding
and TA.
3.6 BUDGET
Please provide us an estimation of costs broken down per category and indicate if you foresee to
complement the grant with in house funding (if so, how much)
Activity LR grant budget Nigeria CSA to source for funds
to finance this section
Engage a consultant to develop a
draft plan of action based on the
National Policy on Food and
Nutrition and desk review of
previous action plan and relevant
other documents
USD 7,000
Facilitate 3 meetings of the
National Committee on Food and
Nutrition (NCFN) and relevant
stakeholders to review draft plan
of action.
N2, 500 USD 11,000
Lead the process of advocating
for and securing approval of the
USD 1,100

8. final draft by the relevant
government agency
Production of 2000 copies of
approved National Plan of Action
on Nutrition.
USD 1000 USD 6,500
Launch and disseminate plan
nationwide through a one-day
dissemination meeting involving
stakeholders at national and
state levels
USD 1,500 USD 5,000
Follow-up and Evaluation
(indicators – Number of States
that have domesticated and are
implementing Plan).
USD 8,500
Total amount estimated USD 5,000 USD 39,100
*NOTE: Nigeria CSA will source funds outside the LR Budget from the PACFaH
Project, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Save the Children, UNICEF etc.
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