Monitoring Visit at Afar Region
👥 Monitoring Visit at Afar Region – Empowering Women for Better Nutrition 🌱 A team from ECSC-SUN Secretariat and Amref Health Africa visited Koredura Kebele, Asayita Woreda in the Afar Region to engage with women’s groups supported through the Women Economic Empowerment & Adolescent Initiative (WEE & AI). These groups have received skill training and agricultural inputs — including chickens, milking goats, and fruit & vegetable seeds — to improve household nutrition and promote diverse, nutrient-rich diets. 🍅🐐🌽 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. 💪👨👩👧👦 Together, we’re 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 woreda’s 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 Women’s 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
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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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