Monitoring Visit at Afar Region
đ„ Monitoring Visit at Afar Region â Empowering Women for Better Nutrition đ± A team from ECSC-SUN Secretariat and Amref Health Africa visited Koredura Kebele, Asayita Woreda in the Afar Region to engage with womenâs groups supported through the Women Economic Empowerment & Adolescent Initiative (WEE & AI). These groups have received skill training and agricultural inputs â including chickens, milking goats, and fruit & vegetable seeds â to improve household nutrition and promote diverse, nutrient-rich diets. đ đđœ Through the Gender Model Family approach, positive change is happening: husbands are now actively supporting in household chores like fetching water, childcare, and food preparation. đȘđšâđ©âđ§âđŠ Together, weâre working towards healthier families and empowered communities. #NutritionMatters #WEEAI #ECSCSUN #AmrefHealthAfrica #AfarRegion #GenderEquality #FoodSecurity
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School Gardening Visit
A joint delegation from Save the Children, Ethiopian Civil Society Coalition for Scaling Up Nutrition (ECSC-SUN) Secretariat and Mums for Mums paid a visit to a thriving school gardening project in Kilete Awlalo Woreda, located in the Tigray region. The school garden, flourishing with a variety of vegetables including spinach stands as a testament to the collaborative efforts of multiple stakeholders. Key contributors to the project’s success include the woredaâs development agents, agricultural experts, school clubs, and principals, all of whom played vital roles in driving the initiative forward.
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Tigray regional ECSC-SUN coordination platform
The Ethiopian Civil Society Coalition for Scaling Up Nutrition (ECSC-SUN) convened a Tigray Regional Coordination Platform workshop in Mekelle this week. The workshop brought together key stakeholders from across the region to foster collaboration, exchange experiences, and reinforce efforts aimed at combating malnutrition and improving nutrition outcomes. The event was organized in partnership with Mums for Mums, a local civil society organization serving as the regional lead for ECSC-SUN in Tigray. #ECSCSUN #Tigray #ScalingUpNutrition #MumsForMums #EndMalnutrition#NutritionMatters
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2024 Joint Annual Assessment conducted
In Ethiopia there are 6 active Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Networks: SUN Business Network (SBN), SUN Academia, SUN government, SUN UN, SUN Donor and SUN CSOs. These Nutrition Muti Sectorial Platform conduct their 2024 Joint Annual Assessment (JAA) to share achievements, challenges and next priorities. Ethiopian Civil Society Coalition for Scaling Up Nutrition (ECSC-SUN) presented advocacy and programmatic achievements in the event. In terms of capacity building, ECSC-SUN has facilitated and financially supported nutrition leadership training where more than 120 professionals from Afar, Oromia, Somali, Southwest Ethiopia. Regarding gender and community interventions, ECSC-SUN implemented Womenâs Economic Empowerment and Adolescent Initiatives where women trained, provided seeds, poultry, seedlings in the intervention areas in Afar, Tigray and Somali regions. In addition, ECSC-SUN engaged in advocacy and knowledge sharing events Globally. For instance, the national lead represented Ethiopia at SUN Regional Meeting at Nairobi, Kenya.  JAA is a country-focused process providing an opportunity for stakeholders to reflect on annual progress. It helps to ensure that multisectoral efforts to end all forms of malnutrition are well-aligned and effective. #ECSCSUN #Savethechildren #SUNglobal #Ministryofhealthethiopia #Drsisay #AbebeBimerew #NahusenayAlemayehu #SBN #endmalnutrition
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Seqota Declaration Resilience Building Report Disseminated
Seqota Declaration (SD) Resilience Building Report Dissemination and Launching event held with the presence of nutrition stakeholders. Government, UN agencies, development partners, civil society organizations, private sectors and academic institutions are among the participants of the event. In her remark Mr. Hiwot Darsene, Lead Executive Officer of Nutrition Coordination Office at Ministry of Health states that the report findings are well prepared. She also underscores that the report recommendations are expected to be translated into actionable tasks. Seqota Declaration is a government- owned commitment to end stunting in children under two years by 2030.
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Acknowledged !
Nutrition leadership training has been provided at national and regional levels. Organizing such an impactful capacity building program needs multi dimensional efforts. Mobilizing resource is one of challenging tasks to the organizing team. Ethiopian Civil Society Coalition for Scaling Up Nutrition ( ECSC-SUN), has provided financial support to the training organizer regions. Our contribution is recognized. Being acknowledged creates proud ! hashtag#ECSC-SUN hashtag#MinstryofhealthEthiopia # Oromia hashtag#Somali
Read MoreGlobal Nutrition Crisis Demands Immediate Action
We are thrilled to share that the Civil Society Declaration on the N4G Paris Summit 2025 â Call to Action has been endorsed by over 152 organizations, representing thousands of nutrition advocates, practitioners, frontline workers, and more. As a reminder, this declaration calls on world leaders to: Prioritize people, particularly women, girls, and marginalized communities. Protect and increase financing for nutrition, ensuring alignment with national priorities. Ensure accountability through transparent, well-funded mechanisms. Center nutrition in crisis response and long-term development. Regulate the private sector, prioritizing public health over profit.
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Facilitation and communication skill training
Facilitation and communication skill are very important to conduct dialogue session effectively and efficiently. Cognizing this, Ethiopian Civil Society Coalition for Scaling Up Nutrition (ECSC-SUN) organized and conducted training from 2-6 April,2025 at Bishoftu. A total 26 (4 women) participants from three regions, Afar, Tigray and Somali, engaged in the training. Training participants were implementers and supporters of ECSC-SUN Women Economic Empowerment and Adolescent initiative (WEE& AI) intervention. The intervention focused on food production, consumption and practice change in the household feeding. The adolescent nutrition intervention is highly focused to reach out in and out school adolescent  groups. The intervention is under implementation by using  existing platforms within the schools ( gender , health and sanitation, Nutrition clubsâŠ)  and out of school adolescent groups established by Save the Children Gender Equality  Project (GEP) . Capacity building, school gardening, and Social and Behavioral Change Communications (SBCC) gender and nutrition are among the intervention component underway with detailed  activities. Gender Model Family (GMF) is an approach identified and employed with the objective to promote positive gender norms and address food taboos affecting adolescent groups nutrition status . The social behavioral change intervention expected to be achieved through GMF approach demands to  employ multiple approaches including organizing regular dialogue session. The dialogue session is deemed to be managed through organizing subsequent discussion on different adolescent focused nutrition and gender message developed by ECSC-SUN secretariat team. The dialogue session is expected to facilitate by Woreda stakeholders and implementing partners in the regions: Mums for Mums for Tigray and Amref Health Africa for Afar. To enhance the stakeholders and implementing partners facilitation and communication skill, a three-day training was organized and conducted by ECSC-SUN secretariat. Basic communication skills, listening skills, message development Facilitatorâs role, facilitation principles were among the contents of the training. The training was interactive, practical that enhance participants knowledge and skill on how to develop adolescent  Â
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Husbandâs household plan
Gender Model Family (GMF) training conducted at Goljano, Somali region from Feb 25-27, 2025. Save the Children Somali field office, Goljano woreda health, education, agriculture women and social affair officers were among the trainees of first round. After the training these trainees became facilitator for GMF couples training. The training was practical and culture sensitive. Training participants identified traditional notions of gender roles and responsibilities in Somali region and in Goljano woreda. Â To analyse these participants listed daily activities of men and women side by side. Waking up early in the morning and going to spleen lately, cooking food, caring children, building traditional houses were some of the roles of Somali women. After through discussion training participants understand that there were inequalities in household tasks. Sharing these responsibilities benefits the family economically and socially. Participants developed household level action plan to enhance family dialogue and engage all family members in decision-making. Â Â Accordingly, husbands planned to support their spouse in household chores like fetching water and caring children. Gender norms and social expectations can have a significant impact on nutrition status of women. Community engaging approaches is important to develop positive attitudes through behavioral change intervention. GMF is instrumental to leverage provision equal opportunities within the families. #GMF #Gendernorm #ECSC-SUN
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Experience sharing visit
Ethiopian Civil Societies Coalition for Scaling Up Nutrition (ECSC SUN) has been implementing Women Economic Empowerment and Adolescent Initiative (WEE & AI) intervention in Tigray, Afar and Somali regions. This WEE & AI is intended to promote Gender equality through women empowerment for better nutrition outcome. That is why the project focused on women and provided vegetable seedlings, dairy goat/sheep and agricultural hand tools last year. Using the provided skill and input target groups are trying to produce nutritious food, to consume diversified food and to change feeding practice. There are differences in the agroecology of the regions, working culture of the community and commitment of the implementing partners. Accordingly, their performance varies among the intervention areas. To facilitate learning from one to another, experience sharing visit was arranged in Tigray region, Kelete Awlalo) woreda, Wukero area. During the visit, demonstration of school gardening was observed in Tahitay Hade Qesanded primary school. Then three of the project participantsâ home gardening was visited. Target groups in Tigray produced vegetable using small plot of land and plastic bags for vertical farming methods. They used natural fertilizer to boost the productivity of fruit and vegetable. Not only consume what they have produced, they also earned money by selling the execs product. Preparing diversified food and feeding their children nutritious food helped target groups to maintain their childrenâs health and growth. They have money saving mechanisms like Ekub that helps them to start poultry production by their own effort, using saved money. Not only that, but they also used home grown technology to construct/build chicken coop. After the visit through discussion held and experience shared. According to the visiting team from Afar and Somali, they are inspired with what they have observed. They plan to transfer the knowledge and skill they got from the visit to their communities as get back home.  As to the visitors, social and behavioral change communication works are highly needed to use resources properly in their respective villages.
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