Commitment

1 annual report of the advocacy done to convince regional bodies (AU, ECOWAS, ECCAS, AfDB & others), to support countries for the development and implementation of nutrition multi sectoral policies and programs by providing adequate funding by 2025

Civil society organisation / Senegal

January 2022 — December 2025

Description

•Create a regional advocacy strategy with all 19 member countries of our regional network, define messages adapted for each target and identify specific activities and best tactics.

• Organise lobby meetings, webinars, fora and workshops.

• Actively participate in official meetings of ECOWAS, ECCAS and AU to advocate for nutrition.

• Disseminate messages on social media.

• Produce an annual report on the success/failure/challenges of reaching the commitment.

Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)

Title

Accountability, advocacy and policies

Description

1. Create an online advocacy platform by 2023 that displays regional governments’ nutrition commitments and progress made to promote mutual accountability based on evidence.

2. Advocate to regional bodies (African Union, Economic Community of West African States, Economic Community of Central African States, African Development Bank and others) to support countries for the development and implementation of nutrition multisectoral policies and programmes by providing adequate funding by 2025.

3. By 2025, strengthen the capacities of 1,000 civil society organisations to raise citizen voices at the local level to support and promote nutrition.

GNR assessment

Verification status
Pending verification
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SMARTness index

Details

Global nutrition target(s)
Low birth weight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
Nutrition Action Classification(s)
Enabling > Research, monitoring and data
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Linked event(s)
  • 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
N4G Summit theme(s)
  • Food systems
  • Health
  • Data
  • Financing

Measurement

Key indicator Number of success stories included in the annual report of West and Central Africa civil society network
Measurement plan Collect own data
Value Measurement date
Baseline 2 Success stories 2021
Target 5 Success stories December 2025

Progress

Value Measurement date Status
Progress report Progress not able to be assessed
Despite the commitment maker’s active participation in the process, they were unable to provide the required information about the baseline data or the progress indicator’s updated (latest) level or status.

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