The Multisectoral Nutrition Action Plan (MSNAP) in Yemen  

Goal: Reduce all forms of malnutrition in Yemen, and ensure Yemeni children reach their full potential and contribute to the social and economic development of their families, communities, and country

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Priorities

The plan and its sub-objectives

Strengthen government leadership, national policies and capacities.

Increase nutrition-sensitive activities and collaboration across relevant sectors.

Increase access to and utilization of essential maternal and child health and nutrition services.

 Priority Area 1  Increase access to and utilization of essential maternal and child health and nutrition services.

  • ‏Goal 1 : Improved infant and young child feeding practices
  • Goal 2 : Increased access to preventative and curative nutrition-specific services
  • Goal 3 : Increased access to preventative and curative nutrition-related health services

Priority Area 2  Increase nutrition-sensitive activities and collaboration across relevant sectors.

  • Goal 4 : Increased agricultural productivity, incomes and quantity/quality of food consumed
  • Goal 5 : Increased fish catch, processing, preservation and consumption
  • Goal 6 : Increased access to improved WASH services
  • Goal 7 : Support good nutrition through school-based intervention

Priority Area 3  Strengthen government leadership, national policies and capacities.

  • Goal 9 : Strengthened enabling policy and legislative environment for nutrition
  • Goal 8 : Strengthened enabling institutional architecture for nutrition

NUTRITION MONITORING AND EVALUATION PLAN

This Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Plan is a supplementary document to Yemen’s recently developed Common Results Framework (CRF) for Nutrition and its Multisectoral Nutrition Action Plan (MSNAP). Those two documents were developed through a consultative and participatory process led by the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Yemen Secretariat (housed within the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation), in close collaboration with selected central-level line ministries that will be instrumental in the delivery of nutrition services and interventions outlined in the CRF and MSNAP. Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition Plus provided technical support in the development of this M&E plan, the CRF and the MSNAP.

Thus, the plan includes indicators and an M&E approach that is deemed to be realistic in the short to medium term. It also highlights M&E-related activities that will facilitate the rebuilding, reactivation and/or introduction of processes and institutional arrangements.

Purpose of a monitoring and evaluation plan

Yemen nutrition stakeholders recognise the need to institute measures to monitor and evaluate progress towards agreed goals and objectives. An investment in monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is therefore critical to successful implementation of the MSNAP. This M&E plan outlines indicators, processes and tools that serve five key purposes:

 

  1. To track progress of different administrative bodies (e.g. government line ministries) and other implementers in improving key results linked to CRF/MSNAP goals and objectives.
  2. To support efforts that will foster accountability for results linked to nutrition impact.
  3. To better target support to nutritionally vulnerable populations.
  4. To support evidence-informed decision-making
  5. To support learning across different stakeholders.

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.
  5. Create accountability and generate demand for nutrition services.

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.