Leveraging the Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Network: building regional platforms to promote learning on how to address malnutrition

PREPARATORY WEBINARCecilia Ruberto, SUN CSN Learning Route Program coordinator

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Starting: February 2016CIFF, SUN CSN, PROCASUR, SUN Alliance Rwanda, SUN Alliances , SUN

Movement and many others

It is YOUR learning program

Policy review, policy tracking, participatory and democratic processes; Engagement and stimulation of multi stakeholder platformsAdvocacy, social mobilization and campaign development

Communication for accountability and awarenessGood governance

• Tailored upon CSAs needs• In house expertise!!

Background

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Objectives & Target

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

Direct Target: Civil Society Alliances

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Learning inside/out

Ethiopia

Kenya

Tanzania

Malawi

Uganda

Zimbabwe

Sierra Leone

Nigeria

Rwanda

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Enabling environment

• Intervention areas, learning needs and expectations • Country host• Learning enabling environment: virtual / face to face what is SUN CSN

working on? • Our community: inclusiveness and participation

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Thank you!

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What happens after? Do you have a plan?

Learning needs new ideas reflection and adaptation action change What? How? For Who? Why? What after?

Sphere of influence:Person organization organizations Alliance external actors world

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Photo: Caroline Trutmann/Save the Children

• Methodology invented to support the MANAGEMENT in managing the CHANGE

• Complex context and when dealing with social change (e.g. behaviour)• Qualitative, participatory evaluation and learning• Looks at the SUCCESS to inform and inspire new plans (vs. evaluation

of the “average change”)• No need for indicators but the results can be used to further develop

organizational qualitative indicators for the changes we wish to see• It is globally recognized evaluation methodology: credibility, visibility and

leads to constructive interactions among stakeholders• 9 CSAs out of 11 flagged the need to enhance M&E

Most Significant Change Technique

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The MSC in few words..

Why Stories?• Story telling is natural• Stories can deal with complexity & context• People remember stories

Collection of stories+

Systematic interpretation(selection process)

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Valid participatory M&E approachwhich is

Reported (utilisation)Share results

Data Analysis

Data Collection

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MSC gain: learn, replicate, communicate

Participatory Evaluation and Learning and organizational strengthening

Agree on our core value and the most significant changes we want to pursue

Share, disseminate, discuss, visibility of the successes

Illustrations: “Barefoot guide”

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Prepare to apply the MSC

• Applied to evaluate the Learning Route innovation plans • Adequate planning, capacity building, technical and resources

support for the CSA• Various level of analysis that will keep fostering cross country mutual

support and multi-stakeholders dialogue• To inform new projects, strategies, M&E• To engage with donors and key stakeholders showing powerful

changes and results

What do you think?

Photo: Adam Hinton/Save the Children

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References

• About the MSC (Jessica Dart videos)>: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmkP-_uSr1KoJZEQ5SQSaxH093B2y9I60

• MSC Manual: http://www.mande.co.uk/docs/MSCGuide.pdf • Barefoot guide (illustrations and an inestimable source of inspiration for about organizational learning and

strengthening): http://barefootguidecontent.weebly.com/ • SUN CSN webpage: http://suncivilsocietynet.wixsite.com/learningroute • SUN CSN Learning Route facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SUNCSNLearningRoute/

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Most significant Change technique

• Why this methodology?

• How the learning is happening and what factors ma• What changes are for us really key• Visibility of the alliances• Internalize mechanisms to reflect and assess the success or the

unsuccessful of our actions that often is qualitative and nor quantitative we talk about behavioural change