The Ministry of Health of Ethiopia, with support from the Seqota Declaration Secretariat, UNICEF, and the Finance Capacity Development Platform (FCDP) for Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) countries, convened a two-day Validation Workshop for the National Food and Nutrition Financing Framework on 9–10 June 2026 in Addis Ababa.

The workshop brought together key government sectors- Health, Agriculture, Water and Energy, Women and Social Affairs, Finance, and Education, alongside development partners and other key stakeholders to review, refine, and formally endorse the National Food and Nutrition Financing Framework. The Framework was developed through an iterative, participatory process involving technical working group consultations and sector reviews, and provides a common understanding of the full resource need to end malnutrition in Ethiopia, alongside a set of priority actions to help the government meet the financing and governance commitments it made at the 2025 Paris Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit.

Key outcomes of the workshop

• Validation and endorsement of the National Food and Nutrition Financing Framework by all key government sectors and partners.
• Confirmation of a prioritized set of actions to sustainably finance food and nutrition, aligned with both government N4G commitments and the Food and Nutrition Strategy.
• Sector-specific action plans developed, identifying next steps, responsible parties, and timelines for implementation.
• Agreement on an approach for developing Regional Food and Nutrition Financing Plans.
• Early direction-setting for nutrition financing beyond 2030, including institutionalizing dedicated nutrition budget lines and strengthening data systems.

Key reflections from participants

• Nutrition financing cannot be siloed within a single sector. Broader ownership, clearer roles, and stronger accountability are needed across government.
• Domestic financing remains insufficient and requires sustained advocacy.
• Donor funding should be better aligned with sector priorities, with improved visibility of partners and resources to reduce duplication.
• The Framework should be embedded in existing government planning and budgeting cycles, including NBTT and regional planning processes
• Regional rollout will require early orientation, engagement of federal sectors from the outset, and use of existing technical committees.

With the Framework validated, the next phase of work will focus on cascading national guidance to the regional level through the development of costed Regional Food and Nutrition Investment Plans, building on the momentum, cross-sector ownership, and lessons generated during the workshop.

FCDP is a SUN Movement resource available to all 67 SUN Countries. The platform aims to transform the nutrition financing landscape by inspiring and igniting government leaders to elevate nutrition financing as a priority and accelerate impact across sectors.

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The National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) of Ghana, with technical and financial support from the Finance Capacity Development Platform (FCDP) for Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) countries, the World Bank, and UNICEF, organized a four-day Training of Trainers (ToT) and Pilot Planning Workshop on Food Systems Transformation and Nutrition Security from April 13th – 16th 2026 at Aqua Safari Resort, Ada.

The program was implemented in two linked phases:

• Phase I (13th–14th April): Training of selected national-level sector officers as Master Trainers to facilitate district-level FSNS planning.
• Phase II (15th–16th April): Pilot district workshop with Ada East, Ningo-Prampram, and South Tongu to test the practicality and user-friendliness of the FSNS planning tools & facilitation model.

The workshop was convened to strengthen national and sub-national capacity for integrating FSNS priorities into district 2026–2029 Medium-Term Development Plans (MTDPs), in line with the MTNDPF and Ghana’s Nutrition for Growth commitments. The full program validated and refined the FSNS Planning Tools, strengthened the technical capacity of a national pool of Master Trainers, and demonstrated the feasibility of district-level integration of FSNS interventions into planning and budgeting systems.

Key lessons from the pilot included:

• The Master Trainer model proved effective, with facilitators demonstrating strong competency in transferring technical knowledge and guiding district planning processes.
• District Planning Officers provided strong institutional leadership, ensuring effective team coordination and quality outputs.
• Districts demonstrated strong responsiveness, adaptability, and innovation, particularly in addressing data availability challenges.
• The FSNS Planning Toolkit was confirmed as practical, functional, and sufficiently robust for broader national application, while also identifying opportunities for further simplification.
• The multi-sectoral structure of district participation proved essential in testing the practicality of the toolkit within real governance and service delivery systems.

5 key outputs of the workshop:

• Validation and refinement of the FSNS Planning Toolkit and planning tools.
• Establishment of a pool of trained Master Trainers for rollout across the regions.
• Development of draft district-level costed FSNS action plans for three pilot districts.
• Development of an action plan to validate and seek approvals for the finalization of the FSNS plans for three pilot districts, and plans for incorporation into the budget process.
• Improved multi-sectoral coordination and planning for food systems and nutrition.

Overall, the initiative provides a credible pathway for translating national nutrition commitments into costed district-level programs. With sustained support and a phased rollout approach, the FSNS Planning Toolkit and Master Trainer model position NDPC to lead a more coordinated and results-oriented FSNS planning process nationwide. With the FSNS cascade training planned for a national roll-out, the stage is now set to translate this foundational work into nationwide impact.

FCDP is a SUN Movement resource available to all 66 SUN Countries. The platform aims to transform the nutrition financing landscape by inspiring and igniting government leaders to elevate nutrition financing as a priority and accelerate impact across sectors.

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The workshop was an opportunity for capacity strengthening and peer learning across countries on nutrition-responsive PFM actions for the region. Across the 4-day workshop, three important themes on what drives country progress emerged:

1. Making the case for investing in nutrition remains the foundation of sustainable nutrition financing. Communicating a clear rationale for why investing in nutrition is important to a country’s broader socioeconomic goals is essential for decision makers to unlock funding.
2. Having the right policy levers that enable sustainable nutrition financing is important as they incentivize budget and planning officers to embed nutrition actions into annual plans and be held accountable.
3. All of this must be executed with government financing mechanisms and tools within PFM systems that enable effective and efficient usage of funds that encourage multi-year investment in activities that work best to achieve country goals.

Each of these thematic areas are explored in depth in the workshop summary report, along with the major challenges and bottlenecks countries reported encountering under each theme, as well as lessons learned and best practices countries shared during the workshop.

In addition to the key themes on driving country progress, clear set of priority activities were identified by workshop participants for the region to take forward:

1. Review and align on a new narrative for sustainable nutrition financing in the context of public financial management to support making the case for nutrition and ensure alignment of all relevant stakeholders in this collaborative effort. This includes a review of existing guidance on:
   • Nutrition budget tracking based on country experience.
   • Prioritization of underfunded nutrition actions across sectors [e.g. nutrition investment taxonomy across sectors based on latest evidence.]
   • Costing of multisectoral nutrition plans with a financing strategy, ensuring they are aligned to and inform sector strategies
2. Establish a regional community of practice on sustainable nutrition financing including routine virtual calls for country guidance and update sharing, and a regular annual convening of the regional capacity strengthening workshop.

Each country developed their own first draft country action plan which they are taking forward to action. This regional guidance will help accelerate and enhance what countries are able to achieve.

FCDP is a SUN Movement resource available to all 66 SUN Countries. The platform aims to transform the nutrition financing landscape by inspiring and igniting government leaders to elevate nutrition financing as a priority and accelerate impact across sectors.

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The learnings and experience sharing provided through this study presents countries with a practical frame of reference and a set of diagnostic elements that they can take forward to consider their own nutrition budget tracking approaches. The challenges and considerations highlighted by this study indicate that work must continue to update guidance to countries on nutrition budget tracking with ample dialogue across countries and technical partners to build consensus. This was validated by SUN countries at the recent SUN Asia Hub workshop where country delegations put forth a strong request to partners to come together to update the SUN guidance on budget analysis for nutrition. This updated guidance should assist countries to articulate their use case, provide a common definition of nutrition and taxonomy of investments and review and update guidelines on weighting of nutrition expenditure.

FCDP is a SUN Movement resource available to all 66 SUN Countries. The platform aims to transform the nutrition financing landscape by inspiring and igniting government leaders to elevate nutrition financing as a priority and accelerate impact across sectors.

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Quatre messages clés ont émergé de l’analyse régionale du financement de la nutrition, ainsi que trois appels à l’action pour les points focaux nationaux SUN afin de financer durablement la nutrition dans la région Afrique :

Message Clés

1. Pour chaque dollar investi par un pays dans la nutrition, il en retira un retour sur investissement de 23 dollars dans la prospérité du pays, avec un impact de grande portée dans divers secteurs.
2. Atteindre tous les ménages africains qui ont besoin d’interventions nutritionnelles nécessite un investissement à faible coût et à haut rendement de la part du gouvernement, qui bénéficie directement aux services de base dans les secteurs de l’agriculture, de la santé, de la protection sociale, de l’éducation, de l’eau, de l’assainissement et de l’hygiène.
3. Il est nécessaire d’augmenter le financement public de la nutrition pour éviter une aggravation de la crise nutritionnelle et pour impacter durablement sur la prospérité.
4. Les pays doivent trouver de nouvelles opportunités de financement extérieur pour améliorer la nutrition et exploiter des options de financement innovantes pour la nutrition tant le financement traditionnel des donateurs diminue drastiquement.

Appel à l’Action

Les gouvernements africains doivent agir rapidement pour améliorer la situation du financement de la nutrition en prenant les mesures nécessaires pour:

• Examiner les tendances du financement de la nutrition dans tous les secteurs et vérifier si chaque secteur a respecté ses engagements en matière de nutrition.
• Examiner les déficits de financement et les besoins immédiats et fixer des objectifs de financement pour les priorités sous-financées qui ont besoin d’aide.
• Maximiser les programmes gouvernementaux en intégrant les actions nutritionnelles et identifier des sources innovantes de financement.

Cette ressource a été co-développée par le FCDP et les pôles régionaux SUN pour l’Afrique francophone, l’Afrique anglophone et le pôle de convergence, avec les contributions de Tendai Gunda, Tetteh Ogum, Eve Gossiaux, Andoniaina Brice et Zahra Inayat.

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Le FCDP est une ressource du Mouvement SUN accessible aux 66 pays SUN. La plateforme vise à transformer le paysage du financement de la nutrition en inspirant et en incitant les dirigeants gouvernementaux à faire du financement de la nutrition une priorité et à accélérer l’impact dans tous les secteurs.

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Four key messages have emerged from the regional nutrition financing review, as well as three calls to action for SUN country focal points in order to sustainably finance nutrition in the Africa region:

Key Messages:

1. For every $1 a country invests in nutrition they will gain a $23 return on investment into the prosperity of the country with wide-reaching impact across sectors
2. Reaching all African households that need nutrition interventions requires a low-cost/high-reward investment by government going directly into government platforms across Agriculture, Health, Social Protection, Education & WASH sectors
3. More government funding for nutrition is needed to avert a worsening nutrition crisis and for countries to make a lasting impact on the prosperity of their country
4. Countries must find new external funding opportunities to improve nutrition and harness innovative financing options for nutrition, as traditional donor funding will soon come to an end

Call to Action:

African governments must move quickly to improve their nutrition funding situation by taking the first steps to:

• Review nutrition financing trends in your country under every sector and review whether every sector budget has fulfilled their commitments to nutrition
• Review the immediate funding need and funding gap, and set financing targets for underfunded priorities that need support
• Maximize government programs by integrating nutrition actions and identify new and innovative sources of financing

This resource was co-developed by FCDP and SUN Regional Hubs for Francophone Africa, Anglophone Africa, and the Convergence Hub, with contributions from Tendai Gunda, Tetteh Ogum, Eve Gossiaux, Andoniaina Brice and Zahra Inayat.

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FCDP is a SUN Movement resource available to all 66 SUN Countries. The platform aims to transform the nutrition financing landscape by inspiring and igniting government leaders to elevate nutrition financing as a priority and accelerate impact across sectors.

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The Government of Somalia through the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), with the support of the Scaling-Up Nutrition (SUN) – Finance Capacity Development Platform (FCDP), convened an inception workshop to address the critical challenges to sustainable nutrition financing, focusing on establishing a roadmap for resource mobilization and prioritization in the country. The event brought together key stakeholders from government and international organizations to deliberate on strategies for financing nutrition interventions. The main objective of the workshop was to address the pressing issue of financing nutrition in Somalia.

FCDP is a SUN Movement resource available to all 66 SUN Countries. The platform aims to transform the nutrition financing landscape by inspiring and igniting government leaders to elevate nutrition financing as a priority and accelerate impact across sectors.

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She is the managing director of Impact Futures Global, a senior fellow at Results for Development (R4D) and the host of the Digital Decisions Podcast. She has spent the majority of her thirty year career at the intersection of global development and technology, dedicated to the idea that everyone in the world should have access to trusted digital tools that make life better. This ethos drove her to found the Digital Impact Alliance, a “think, do, replicate” tank in 2016 that was at the vanguard of encouraging the development sector to take a holistic approach to digital public infrastructure and data over bespoke national systems. Kate stepped down as CEO in January, 2023 and is currently working on a book on the intersection of digital public infrastructure and artificial intelligence in addition to her consulting work.

Prior to founding the Digital Impact Alliance, Kate worked for the global health nonprofit PATH, where she founded and led its Digital Health Solutions group for nine years, working with more than thirty countries, primarily in Asia and Africa, on developing national enterprise architectures and strong policy governance frameworks. Before she joined PATH, Kate worked primarily in the private sector at techology companies including General Electric, Intel and Microsoft where she held various strategy, product and business development roles including introducing the then-new gaming platform Xbox Live to Europe. It was during her eight years at Microsoft where she internalized the value of how a well-built technology platform could be built once and scaled globally. That philosophy — a base of solid engineering, safety, and security upon which multiple innovative, life-enhancing applications can be deployed — is at the heart of the work of global digital transformation.

She currently serves on the Advisory Board of Exchange Design, an AI startup in the development space.

Kate holds an M.B.A. and an M.A. in Southeast Asian studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a B.A. in international relations from the College of William and Mary. She speaks Bahasa Indonesia at a basic level and French certified at B1.3 level.

Publications

• Digital Impact Alliance: Impact Statement
• OECD: Shaping a Just Digital Transformation
• CSIS: Enabling a robust functional digital ID podcast
• Blog: Is there a recipe for digital transformation?
• Talking DPI Podcast: The role of governments in DPI
• People Centered Internet/IEEE: Moderator and Chair of 50th Anniversary celebration and host of AI panel

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