Designing effective multisectoral nutrition collaboration: Insights and lessons learned

This brief identifies the lessons learned from the design, set up and early implementation of highly complex multisectoral collaborations of the National Information platforms for Nutrition (NIPN) in nine very different country and institutional contexts. During the design and set-up of the country platforms there was a real effort to take the conditions for successful collaborations into account: leadership, alignment of objectives, roles and responsibilities, equal power balance and adequate capacities. This brief outlines in detail five lessons for the design and set up of platforms, to help them achieve their collaborative advantage; that is, an evidence-based multisectoral policy dialogue.