Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Network

Expected outcomes: Improved coordination of nutrition activities in Zimbabwe led by members of ZCSOSUNA will lead to well targeted, effective and efficient collaborative actions to address malnutrition in Mashonaland Central and Mashonaland West Province

Innovation and intervention: The ZCSOSUNA strategy focuses on achieving national level commitment while also strengthening dialogue, planning and coordination of subnational food and nutrition committees in two provinces. While at national level, the ZCSOSUNA objective is to appoint the First Lady as nutrition champion and gain political commitments from different ministries, at subnational level their efforts will focus on capacity building and establishment of “performance contracts” at national, provincial, district and ward level. ZCSOSUNA learned from the performance contract adopted by Rwanda, seeing this approach as an interesting innovation with the power to improve accountability, efficiency and effectiveness of diverse public, private implementing actors.