Transcript UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM Standing Committee on Nutrition

UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM
Standing Committee on Nutrition
34th Session – Working Together
Task Force on Assessment, Monitoring,
and Evaluation
Mark Smulders, FAO
Agnès Dhur, WFP
SCN 34th Session – Working Together
Task Force on Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation
Discussion points:
• What is TF – AME expected to do?
• What has been done so far?
• What could/should the TF do?
• Membership
• Resource requirements
SCN 34th Session – Working Together
Task Force on Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation
Expectations:
• 6 -7 areas of work identified in SCN Action Plan
• measurement and monitoring of food & nutrition -> MDGs
• indicators for assessment, monitoring and evaluation
• methods and tools for AME
• M&E frameworks and criteria (evidence; effectiveness of
projects and programmes)
• defining standards, strengthening analysis for health and
nutrition information in emergencies (NICS; HNTS)
• build on existing initiatives, including SCN-WGs, IASC,
FIVIMS initiative and others
SCN 34th Session – Working Together
Task Force on Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation
Where are we?
(i) $3m budget in SCN Action Plan for:
•
Interagency Nutrition Initiative ($2m)
•
Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations
•
Monitoring indicators for Right to Adequate Food
•
M&E framework for the realization of RtF
(see briefing note)
(ii) Concept note for TF-AME; initial feedback
(iii) Pre-session meeting of a “partial TF”;
expression of interest from Brazil
SCN 34th Session – Working Together
Task Force on Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation
Assessment, Monitoring, Evaluation: for what purpose?
• baseline understanding (FS,N,H) – (for whom?)
• surveillance/monitoring of HHFS, nutrition status,
health status? – child growth?
• early warning? of what?
• emergency needs assessment and response?
• development planning? – policy formulation?
• at which level?
• accounting of investments made (human/$$)?
• research?
• advocacy?
ACTORS
& ACTION AREAS
information system activities / functions
assessment
monitoring
evaluation
level 1: community
community development
planning of FS/N
activities
extension work
raising awareness
- participatory
appraisal for
intervention projects
-
Health facility data
growth monitoring




- M&E of local smallscale projects (usually
externally driven)
-
level 2: district
development planning
prioritization
targeting
- rapid, ad hoc,
assessments
-
sentinel site
surveillance
- M&E of specific
intervention
programmes (usually
externally driven)
level 3: national
development of national
FS/N strategies,
programmes
policy formulation
budget prioritization
fundraising
level 4: global
advocacy
global initiatives
cross-country
comparison
fundraising
repeated national
surveys (nutrition,
hh budget, agric, ..)
census
baseline
assessment
analytical studies
research
-United Nations
agencies'
international data
banks
-Global assessments
studies
monitoring and
surveillance of
programmes
national routine
statistics



- global studies on
trend analyses
-
-M&E of specific
intervention
programmes
-Impact
assessment
- M&E on intervention
programmes
-
SCN 34th Session – Working Together
Task Force on Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation
Core questions (for TF-AME):
• focus and scope?
• value added?
• target audience/clients?
• supply-driven info vs. demand-driven info?
• global/national MDG context vs.
• focus on community, HH, individual outcomes?
• development and/or emergency context?
• how do we link food security, nutrition and health
concerns
• what action do we want to influence / inform?
SCN 34th Session – Working Together
Task Force on Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation
Issues for discussion & feedback:
• We have excellent understanding of key issues at global level...
• We have an abundance of methods, tools, techniques
• We have tremendous knowledge, but how do we reach the
people who are food insecure and malnourished?
• Emergency/humanitarian context well covered (coordination)
(IASC clusters on Nutrition, Health, Agriculture; IASC WG on IM;
SCN Nutrition in Emergencies WG; ALNAP; etc.)
• What is missing? What are opportunities for TF-AME?
SCN 34th Session – Working Together
Task Force on Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation
Possible future work of the Task Force on AME:
• Knowledge sharing/management (who is doing what?
where? lessons learned, especially at local levels)
• How? Web portal; stock-taking; technical fora (global, regional,
country level?); SCN newsletter; SCN clearing house function
• Indicators. Provide guidance; commission studies; draw lessons
from country level; share best practices; FS, N, H linkages
• Set-up regional or national task forces (knowledge sharing;
draw lessons on AME techniques; discuss indicators; link food
security, nutrition and livelihoods concerns) Horn of Africa.
Whatever is done ‘define the problem closer to where the
solutions are’ – even for a global level TF