SUN Movement experiences in Indonesia

An ENN article by Nina Sardjunani is SUN Lead Group member, and Endang L. Achadi, Professsor in the Faculty of Public Health, University of Indonesia.

Background

Undernutrition rates in Indonesia are high with stunting and wasting affecting 37% and 12% of children under five respectively. There is large regional variation in stunting prevalence, with rates as high as 58% in some parts of the country. Overweight/obesity is also increasingly becoming a significant concern, with 14% of children under five, 20% of children aged five to 12 years, and 33% of women over 18 classified as overweight/obese.

The Republic of Indonesia joined the SUN Movement in 2011 at a time when the Ministry of Health and the Coordinating Ministry of People’s Welfare began the ‘First 1,000 Days of Life Movement’ and Bappenas (the Ministry of National Development Planning) decided to formulate a SUN Policy Framework. This article describes how political and policy commitment was obtained from relevant ministries in Indonesia and led to a Presidential Decree approved and launched in October 2013. The SUN principles were included in the five-year National Medium Term Development Plans for 2015-2019, and the National Action Plan on Food and Nutrition was aligned to the SUN Common Results Framework (CRF) by engaging 13 ministries and two national board/agencies in the process so that nutrition was addressed by multiple stakeholders. The Presidential Decree also mandated the establishment of a coordinating mechanism for a multi-stakeholder, high-level Task Force led by the Ministry of People’s Welfare.

Nutrition-sensitive programmes are in place. These include the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing programme to build water and sanitation facilities, the Ministry of Industry food fortification programmes, and the Ministry of Trade stabilisation of food prices. Both nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions have been costed through the budget allocation for each programme and the integration of this into the National Action Plan.

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The Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN) and support to the SUN Movement

ENN is a UK registered charity which was set up to improve practice and strengthen the institutional memory of agencies involved in the emergency food and nutrition sectors. ENN focuses on communities in crisis, typically humanitarian emergencies. ENN enables nutrition networking and learning to build the evidence base for nutrition programming in three ways:

• Field Exchange (FEX), an online and print publication on nutrition and food security in emergencies and high burden contexts. Field Exchange is printed three times per year.
• Nutrition Exchange (NEX), is an online publication of short, easy to read articles on nutrition programme experiences and learning. Nutrition is summarised information from the flagship publication, Field Exchange.
• en-net, a free and open resource that helps practitioners access technical advice for operational challenges through the online forum. A specific area for SUN en-net was launched in 2015. Visit SUN en-net ►

ENN is part of the DFID funded Technical Assistance for Nutrition (TAN) programme under which ENN is providing knowledge management services to the SUN Movement in Phase Two (2016-2020). ENN is focused on capturing, curating and disseminating knowledge and learning about nutrition scale up with a focus on high burden and fragile and conflict affected states. Three regional specialists and a Knowledge Management Coordinator are working with country level SUN actors (government, UN, donors, civil society, business and academia) to capture what is being learnt about the scale up of nutrition specific and sensitive activities.