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World Health Assembly Resolution 65.6 endorsed a Comprehensive Implementation Plan on Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition, which specified six global nutrition targets for 2025.

National nutrition information systems are essential for assessing the current status and measuring changes in nutritional status of populations, tracking the progress of actions and prioritising efforts toward improving nutrition.

The SUN Movement Strategy and Roadmap (2016-2020) calls for improved access and use of financial resources for nutrition. As a step towards the SUN Movement’s pursuit of this objective, a mapping was undertaken in 2016 of multilateral external (i.e. non-domestic) investments to improve awareness and understanding of nutrition funding sources and how to access them.

Ten high-impact nutrition-specific interventions are identified in the Framework for actions to achieve optimum foetal and child nutrition development. Calls for investment in these interventions continue to grow, most notably, at the groundbreaking Human Capital Summit on the opening day of the 2016 World Bank Annual Meetings.

SUN Countries are working towards demonstrating better use of financial data through improved advocacy, planning and impact which will lead to increased resources from both domestic and external sources. They doing this by regularly and transparently tracking nutrition budget allocations against multi-sectoral nutrition plans.

As of 2017, over two-thirds of SUN Countries have undertaken the SUN Movement Budget Analysis Exercise and the experience is proving to be valuable for cross-country learning exchange and engagement between sectors.

Multi-sectoral nutrition plans endorsed at the highest level, guide collective implementation and resource allocation. Across the SUN Movement, these are often identified as the Common Results Framework (CRF). How this is documented is unique to each country and many include national targets and include actions which have been costed. Regardless of where or how it manifests itself, each step and interaction in the process of negotiating a CRF, add a significant amount of value to the national policy and budget cycle, and to developing the enabling environment for all stakeholders to engage and share common goals.

Costing of individual nutrition investments is an essential step in the process of mobilising resources, whether external or internal to a country. A number of global level efforts to calculate the cost have been undertaken to advocate for increased and more effective investments in nutrition.

In addition, a number of efforts have been made to cost actions within a country’s CRF and the methodologies that can be utilised to undertake costing across nutrition sensitive sectors. A costed CRF is not an end in itself: it is a tool in the process of conceptualising, planning, and initiating action. Subsequently, in June 2015, the Common Results Framework Planning Tool was launched to better understand costed nutrition actions in SUN Countries.