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 – 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 clubs…) 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 Facilitator’s 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
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Husband’s 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. 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. 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 participants’ 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 children’s 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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Refresher training rendered
Ethiopian Civil Societies Coalition for Scaling Up Nutrition (ECSC SUN) successfully completed skill and knowledge training, which was rendered at Mekelle town from February 5-7,2025. ECSC SUN has been implementing Women Economic Empowerment and Adolescent Initiative (WEE & AI) intervention in 3 regions. This pilot project is intended to accelerate change in food production and consumption in Tigray, Afar and Somali regions. The project is aligned and implemented in collaboration with Save the Children Gender Equality Program (GEP) in Afar and Somali as well as Mums for Mums in Tigray regions. To upgrade capacity of GEP staff, Government sectors and implementing partners involved in WEE and AI, the training is organized. This training has covered components like basic nutrition, adolescent nutrition and home gardening. Actors engaged in the project implantation have multi-disciplinary background and inconsistent understanding on the intersection between gender and nutrition. As a result, during previous fiscal year some implementation gaps were observed. According to participants, the training enabled all actors in process be on same page, improve quality of implementation and, avoid deviation that may arise due to knowledge and skill gap. The training helps not only to equipped with home gardening skill, but also to share knowledge and experience among trainees. It is recalled that, the first phase training was delivered on May 2024 at Beshoftu. #ECSC-SUN
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Ethiopia Civil Society Coalition for Scaling Up Nutrition (ECSC-SUN) conducted its steering committee meeting.
The ECSC-SUN steering committee was established in December 2014 chaired by Save the Children Ethiopia and co-chaired by Concern Worldwide. By then, the coalition had identified thematic focus areas and assigned lead agencies. In the meantime, cascading national structure, regional ECSC-SUN chapter was organized, support platforms formed. Those support platform were assigned with the agencies engagement in either of the nutrition specific or sensitive sectors. For instance, Mums for Mums, local NGO, assigned to lead the Tigray regional ECSC-SUN platform and Concern Worldwide to lead the Amhara regional support platform while Care Ethiopia for Gender thematic focus. In the recent steering committee meeting regional and thematic leads presented their progress updates and future actions. According to the reports, coalition members agencies provided technical and financial support for the Food and Nutrition Strategy (FNS) implementation in their respective regions. In addition, they had conducted familiarization and sensitization workshops on FNS and the role of civil society organizations for the implementing partners. Most of the regional lead agencies developed and endorsed ToR, conducted gap assessment, mapped CSOs in their respective regions, selected stakeholders and steering committee members. Furthermore, coalition members provided capacity building to the regional FNS implementing partners, as to the report. Registering ECSC-SUN as legal entity is one of the future actions set in the meeting.
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Ethiopian Scaling Up Nutrition Movement conducted Consultation Workshop.
The objective of the workshop is to validate the government of Ethiopia Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Paris 2025 Commitment among stakeholders. Ethiopian Civil Society Coalition for Scaling Up Nutrition (ECSC-SUN) is part of the consultation workshop held on January 15 – 16, 2025 at Hyatt Regency Hotel. Coalition members presented agendas of commitments. For instance, stunting (under five and under two) by Action Against Hunger (ACF) and CARE; exclusive breast-feeding by ECSC-SUN secretariat and anemia by Nutrition International (NI). After the presentation, interactive session held among participants. The discussion yields valuable feedback and new insight. #ECSC-SUN # N4G #SUN GLOBAL
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Mekelle’s Sensitization Workshop
Tigray Kelete Awlalo wereda is one of intervention areas of Ethiopian Civil Society Coalition for Scaling Up Nutrition (ECSC-SUN) Women Economic Empowerment and Adolescent Initiative (WEE & AI). To sensitize stakeholders in the ECSC-UN WEE & AI intervention a one-day workshop was organized at Mekelle planet Hotel on December 12, 2024. The aim of the event is to discuss current project progress, annual plans, stakeholder roles, and program sustainability. Participants, from regional and woreda government stakeholders, actively engaged in the discussion and reached consensus to closely collaborate to make the program sustainable. Sense of ownership and collaboration among the stakeholders and target group commitment are good indicators to end malnutrition in all its forms!
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Earning money from homestead garden
Project participant women living in Tigray Kelete Awlalo woreda are producing vegetable in homestead garden and consuming their product. Not only consume what they produced in small plot of land and vertical farming technique but also, they earn money by selling the excessive products. For instance, Nigisti Abrha is one of the target women earns more than 2 thousand Birrs within past 6 month by selling cabbage and vegetable seedling. Ethiopian Civil Society Coalition for Scaling Up Nutrition (ECSC-SUN) has a pilot project focused on women empowerment. Through women economic empowerment and adolescent initiative intervention, ECSC-SUN plans to improve household nutrition status in three regions: Tigray, Afar and Somali. To assess the implementation progress of the project, ECSC-SUN secretariat conducted visit to project area Tigray, Kelete Awlalo. Project participant women conducted cocking and feeding demonstrations for visiting team. They used vegetable (cabbage, tomato), animal products(egg) and pulse to produce nutritious dense food for children and adults separately. The team consists of regional and woreda Food and Nutrition implementing sectors, ECSC-SUN secretariat, Mums for Mums (MfM) Save the children Tigray office. The team appreciate the progress and encourage the women’s effort. The woreda multi sectorial coordination is clearly seen in this project. Health, agriculture, water and women affair sectors collaborate to support the beneficiaries to produce, consume and to bring attitudinal change regarding women and children feeding practice. These coordination and commitment are best indicators for the sustainability of the piloted project.
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