Soudan

The SUN Movement Roadmap 2021–2025 aims to develop a national multisectoral nutrition plan/common results framework to focus, catalyse and align all stakeholders and resources around key nutrition-specific and -sensitive interventions. This will help bring together critical systems, including health, food, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), education and social protection to incorporate key nutrition-relevant interventions within plans and programmes and to institutionalize robust multisectoral coordination and accountability mechanisms. Initial steps were taken in 2021 to motivate stakeholders and reach more nutritionrelevant sectors and line ministries, as well as to plan the approach.

In 2021, focus was placed on strengthening the capacity of the SUN Secretariat and the five SUN networks, ensuring that all are fully operational, with clear terms of reference that are aligned with the goals of third phase of the SUN Strategy and a context-specific SUN operational guideline that outlines roles and responsibilities. Ensuring that the Sudan SUN Movement is effective means that that there is a strong platform from which to work towards the goals of the country’s road map. In 2022, focus will be placed on the capacity-building of multisectoral nutrition planning in order to develop and implement a national multisectoral nutrition plan.

Currently there is no endorsed nutritional governance and accountability framework. The SUN Secretariat has proposed a clear governance and accountability model to be approved by the Cabinet of Ministers. Recently, the SUN TAG was expanded to include nutrition-relevant sectors and line ministries beyond the health sector. A similar structure will be established at state levels. Some funds are being allocated to nutrition-specific interventions from the overall annual health budget. A more comprehensive financial analysis will be undertaken to understand the overall financing gap for nutrition as part of the development of the multisectoral nutrition plan.