MSNAP Advocacy Strategy

Overall goal

The overall goal of the advocacy strategy is to change policy and practices in order to support a cost-effective and multisectoral approach to reduce all forms of malnutrition in Yemen.

Advocacy objectives

The advocacy strategy promotes the establishment of an enabling policy and operational environment and the institutional architecture for a multisectoral platform to engage actors of key sectors, mainly health, water and environment, agriculture, livestock, fisheries and education, to contribute effectively to achieving the national nutrition targets.

This strategy will support the MSNAP, laying the foundations to transition from a predominantly humanitarian, short-term approach to nutrition, to a nationally driven, mid- and longer-term effort to scale up nutrition interventions, with a development focus.

 

Specific objectives:

  1. Foster buy-in and leadership for a multisectoral approach to nutrition.
  2. Promote supportive policies, regulatory environment and compliance, and operational environment, with particular attention to nutrition-specific interventions and related information management.
  3. Support the creation of a governance structure fit for a multisectoral approach.
  4. Advocate for mobilising resources.

The process of developing the advocacy strategy


The advocacy strategy was developed through a participative process under the leadership of Yemen’s SUN Secretariat under the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation (MOPIC), with contributions of the main sectors represented through governmental ministries and departments (mainly health, water and environment, agriculture and irrigation, livestock, fisheries and education), and included representatives of development and humanitarian partners. A rapid analysis of relevant stakeholders and their potential contributions to the nutrition advocacy strategy was the first step in guiding preparation and the outline for the in-depth reviews and consultations. This was followed by multi-stakeholder, as well as bilateral, consultations.

An advocacy consultation workshop involving all stakeholders was conducted 24–26 November 2019 in Sana’a. Results of the workshop provided the strategic and programmatic content for the strategy.