Bringing Country perspectives together

1. Bringing Country
Perspectives Together

2. Key Points
Coordination Arrangements
- Hosting of high level coordination mechanisms whether
supra-ministerial or line ministry is country context specific
- Challenges in adequately engaging all relevant sectors and
partners
- Knowledge and concensus of relevant skills needed for
coordination across the board and rules of engagement
- Inadequate participation in coordination meetings- low
cadre of staff
- Need for progress markers for coordination mechanisms.
- Lack of guidelines for management of conflict and clear
guidelines for MSP on how to handle conflict of interests

3. Key Points
Building Trust & Leadership
- Inadequate information sharing and communication between partners and
sectors
- Differing interests and competing priorities -lack of a common agenda to
accommodate all partner interests
- Competition for resources between partners and sectors , need for more
transparency in allocation of resources
- Inability to optimise organizational synergies especially in areas of overlaps
between mandates
- Fear of loss of power
- Challenges of leadership skills on how to engage all stakeholders

4. Key Points
Transparent Accountability Mechanisms
- Weak mechanisms of tracking progress and performance – resource
tracking and score cards
- Lack of transparency on resource sharing and distribution in
government and among partners
- Organisational plans and budgets not openly shared- having a joint
planning and review could diffuse tensions and lead to more
transparency
- Nutrition information not shared widely with all actors and
beneficiaries- it would help to increase awareness of resource
utilization and progress programme implementation
- Lack of a common results framework, clear roles and responsibilities
- Understand different accountability mechanisms that exist across
networks and partners

5. Key Points
Transparent Accountability Mechanisms
- Weak mechanisms of tracking progress and performance – resource tracking
- Lack of transparency on resource sharing and distribution in government and
among partners
- Organisational plans and budgets not shared- having a joint planning and review
could disffuse tensions and more transparency
- Nutrition information not shared widely with all actors and beneficiaries- helps to
increase awareness of resource utilization and progress programme
implementation
- Lack of a common results framework, clear roles and responsibilities
- Understand different accountability mechanisms that exist across networks and
partners
- Lack of awareness and the perception that nutrition is a health issue

6. Key Points
Knowledge sharing
- Knowledge is power and it strengthens all our positions by sharing
- Country networks using the media as a tool for communicating
messages
- Countries have communication strategies and advocacy plans
- Innovation of knowledge sharing through citizen engagement in
nutrition and accountability
- Platforms for knowledge sharing using local language and creating
linkages with the community structures
- Challenge for many countries in reaching the majority
- How to sensitise decision makers on nutrition
- No one size fits all