Title: Advocacy for Country-Led Nutrition Financing: A New Consensus

Co-Hosts: World Vision International, the SUN Movement Secretariat, the Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Network, N4D and the SDG2 Advocacy Hub

Session Blurb:

At a mere 0.5% of ODA, global nutrition financing continues to be inadequate to meet growing needs. Progress to achieve the Global Nutrition Targets and the SDG2 targets must be accelerated and resourced. Global advocates must now come together and build a new consensus to increase nutrition financing. We must clarify and simplify our narrative, use messages to reach beyond the nutrition community, and call for donors to align behind country nutrition plans, priorities, and policies. 

This event will propose a strategic direction for nutrition finance advocacy, based on recommendations from new research, with case studies of mapping advocacy needs at the country-level, showcasing the high-level and country-level work that can be done. Building on meetings in London in April 2024, this event seeks to catalyze a new consensus for nutrition advocacy to increase financing beyond N4G.

Hosted by World Vision International, the SUN Movement Secretariat, the Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Network, N4D and the SDG2 Advocacy Hub, this side event will focus on the way forward for advocacy to increase nutrition financing. It will share new research and recommendations on the nutrition financial architecture while also putting forward an approach to support country-led efforts to mobilise financing aligned with national priorities. It will hear from civil society advocates, donors and government representatives to chart a new approach for improved finance for nutrition that drives progress on national nutrition priorities.

Moderator: Sonia Pnazani, Head of Country Action, Scaling Up Nutrition Movement Secretariat

Speakers:

• Dan Irvine, Global Director for Health and Nutrition, World Vision International
• Asma Lateef, Chief of Policy & Advocacy, SDG2 Advocacy Hub
• Irshad Danish, Senior Advocacy Advisor Asia, Nutrition International, Chair of SUN Civil Society Network, and Co-chair of GNR Stakeholders Group
• Chris Leather, Co-founder and Director, N4D