The Cross Sectoral Planning Group (CSPG), a well structured multi-sectoral platform (MSP), is in place with support from six technical working groups, each with Terms of Reference. These groups include representation from key government, United Nations (UN), civil society organisation (CSO), academia, business and donor networks.
The Business Network is not yet fully operational, however, the private sector continues to be engaged by different stakeholders in their programmes. There is on-going work by the CPSG to engage parliamentarians. Government agencies, in collaboration with a number of UN organisations, development partners and CSOs are engaging more directly with regional and district level players in Ghana’s three Northern regions.
New members, particularly from nutrition-sensitive government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) have played a more active role in CSPGs activities over the last year.
Opportunities are available to strengthen communication between members of the CSPG and the six technical working groups. CSPG is in the process of strengthening coordination with a number of measures and has developed and shared a roadmap as a basis for aligning actions.
The capacity building working group of the CSPG has initiated the development of a capacity building plan. The plan will take into consideration, various capacity assessments undertaken in the nutrition sector, including a landscape analysis on “Country Readiness to Accelerate the Reduction of Maternal and Child Under-nutrition” by WHO, a functional assessment by UNREACH among others, and capacity building objectives in sector and district nutrition scale-up plans.
The CSO platform has regular intra-network meetings with as many as 140 Non-Governmental Organisations who are committed to scaling up nutrition. The CSOs have also documented the nutrition governance coordination mechanism in Ghana.
Media advocacy is very strong with regular programming on radio, television and mobile phones. CSOs have also begun engaging parliamentarians to raise the importance of nutrition.
Last updated: October 2015
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