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Ghana: Civil Society Awarded $374,500 to Strengthen Scaling Up Nutrition
The proposal seeks to establish a solid CSO platform; to ensure this space is used a basis for common messaging and national awareness raising campaign to support the SUN movement and the 1000 days campaign eventually leading to; nutrition is recognized as both a health and a developmental issue secured through the adoption and implementation of a strong National Nutrition Policy supported through appropriate budgetary allocation by the government and other stakeholders.
August 7, 2013 - Last update: February 10, 2023
Despite positive political and strategic steps already taken to address malnutrition, Ghana experiences high food insecurity and high rates of maternal and child undernutrition including moderate to severe micronutrient deficiencies.
The purpose of the current project is to initiate and facilitate active and sustained CSO engagement in nutrition issues in Ghana that will ultimately result in improved nutrition outcomes in the country. The grant seeks to do this through the framework of a coalition. Currently, there are many CSOs implementing a variety of nutrition activities in Ghana. The CSO coalition is expected to harmonize and coalesce the different shades of CSO advocacy activities to ensure coherence and unity in achieving optimal outcomes in nutrition.
The proposal seeks to establish a solid CSO platform; to ensure this space is used a basis for common messaging and national awareness raising campaign to support the SUN movement and the 1000 days campaign eventually leading to; nutrition is recognized as both a health and a developmental issue secured through the adoption and implementation of a strong National Nutrition Policy supported through appropriate budgetary allocation by the government and other stakeholders.
Learn more about MPTF funding in Ghana.
About the SUN MPTF
The SUN MPTF, established in March 2012 by participating UN agencies and contributing donor partners, is designed to ensure catalytic grants reach governments, UN agencies, civil society and other stakeholders to enable development and implementation of national efforts to scale up nutrition. Not meant to replace other steams of funding, the MPTF was established to enable or initiate action on scaling up nutrition at the country-level when other funding support is not available.
In addition to providing financial support for initiating SUN actions at the country level – including establishment and strengthening of multi-stakeholder platforms, stock-taking, hosting national SUN launches and facilitating sharing of experiences at regional and global meetings – an initial funding priority of the MPTF is to support development and operation of civil society platforms in SUN countries.
