Clara Picanyol

Way forward

Planning, Costing and FinancingCommunity of Practice

Sue Horton

Patrizia Fracassi

Questions

Tracking of external resources:• We use ‘external’ to indicate resources that are off-budget. • At global level:– The Donor Network has agreed in 2013 on a common methodology to track their nutrition-specific

and nutrition-sensitive investments. They are focusing on planned and not on actual spending (e.g. focus on allocations) They are using two categories: 1) Nutrition-specific and 2) Nutrition-sensitive They are using two attributions: 1) 100% for nutrition-specific and 2) 25% for nutrition-sensitive They are using nutrition outcomes to gauge the degree of nutrition sensitivity of the programmes they include in their overview. The

nutrition outcomes are drawn from the nutrition conceptual framework (UNICEF 1990), the Reference Document “Addressing Undernutrition in External Assistance” (EC 2011) and the SUN Movement Strategy 2012-2015.

– No other global network (CS Network, UN Network and Business Network) is currently assessing their own nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive investments.

• At country level:– Ethiopia included financial information in the stakeholder mapping

Doubts about the accuracy and completeness of the financial information persist Organizations are not eager to disclose financial information

– Madagascar developed a survey-based mechanism to track nutrition investments against their NPAN II.

Limited breakdown by agency on nutrition-related investments Very little financial information from CSOs and the private sector

– Tanzania conducted a PER during 2013 (started late 2012). Results published here Major difficulties in getting financial information from development partners

Tracking of external resources:

1. What is the way forward for the Donor Network? If financial tracking is done at global level with presentation of data disaggregated by country: what is the use and limitations of the information at country level?

2. By focusing only on Donor and Government allocations are we missing too much information? Is it useful to conduct a scoping exercise with a selected number of INGOs and the four main UN Agencies? What about the Business Network? What is the percentage of private investments mobilized by selected INGOs and main UN Agencies? Should we assume that all/most investments from businesses are private?If financial tracking by CS Network and UN Network is done at global level with presentation of data disaggregated by country: what is the use and limitations of the information at country level? What about the Business Network?

3. Priorities for 2015. What is feasible? Balance of global level versus country level tracking for ‘external’ resourcesReconciling Government and development partners’ efforts on financial tracking (budget and off-budget) Planned versus actual spending. Is allocation tracking (planned spending) good enough as a starting point? Few countries are willing to try (e.g. Malawi, Nepal)…

Planning, costing, implementing and financing scaled-up multisectoral actions that contribute

to people’s nutrition

Community of Practice16 July 2014