Resources for incorporating good governance principles
Useful Documents
General Guidance on Establishing a Civil Society Alliance
Terms of Reference for civil society alliances
The guidance note on creating a civil society alliance (above) contains an annex with a ToR for civil society alliances that includes clauses relating to the roles of the steering / executive group, chair and coordinator:
Constitution
An example of the Uganda CSA constitution can be found along with a roadmap and membership form here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/203uvtk9dd0g88m/AABKqCBcXA36UU49vbfdxD1Pa/CSA%20planning%2C%20monitoring%2C%20administration%20and%20governance%20documents/Constitutive%20documents/Uganda_UCCOSUN%20Constitutive%20documents?dl=0
Disclosure Form
The SUN CSN section of the main SUN website contains links to membership forms for the SUN CSN which could be used as a template for national CSA efforts:http://scalingupnutrition.org/resources-archive/network-resources-2#csomember
Monitoring & Evaluation Framework of the SUN movement
http://scalingupnutrition.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/20130701-SUN-ME-Framework-Final.pdf
Roles & Responsibilities of the Host and Coordinator
Bangladesh Terms of reference for the civil society platform coordinator
It may be useful to look at the ToR for the SUN movement donor convenor in country in order to reflect upon how any lead or host institution for the SUN CSA enshrines commitments to the movement within their role: http://scalingupnutrition.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/SUN-Donor-Convenor-ToR-English.pdf
Governance guidance produced by CSAs
Ghana
Guidelines for good governance of Ghana Coalition of Civil Society Organisations for Scaling up Nutrition.
Memorandum of Understanding
A memorandum of understanding between UN agencies for managing the SUN multi-partner trust fund can be found here. While the function of this is different to the kind of MoU a CSA might require it may be useful to see the kind of format used: http://scalingupnutrition.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/SUN-MOU-signed_WFP_WHO_UNICEF_UNOPS.pdf
Conflict of interest management process
It is good practice to include a section on conflict resolution in the platform's governance documents and some examples are available upon request. This section may be informed by the SUN movement documents on preventing and managing conflicts of interest - http://scalingupnutrition.org/about/principles-of-engagement-2/preventing-and-managing-conflicts-of-interest.
The document includes appendices with a conflict of interest policy template, model declaration of conflict of interest form and a suggested conflict of interest management process:
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Reference note
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Executive summary
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Toolkit
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Enhanced learning exercises
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
Results based advocacy
The Transparency and Advocacy Project website has a presentation by Jorge Lavarreda, President of the Board of the National Center for Economic Research in Guatemala (CIEN) who discusses the communications and advocacy strategies that CIEN used during their study to leverage their results and increase their impact. These strategies eventually led to the revision of the Guatemalan academic school year. http://tap.resultsfordevelopment.org/sites/tap.resultsfordevelopment.org/files/resources/CIEN_PETS_Advoc.ppt
The International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC) has a short paper on the topic with links to further resources: http://www.intrac.org/data/files/resources/672/Tracking-Progress-in-Advocacy-Why-and-How-to-Monitor-and-Evaluate-Advocacy-Projects-and-Programmes.pdf
Oxfam uses a method called Process Tracing to assess impact of policy and advocacy work. You can read more about this here: http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/blog/2013/02/~/media/C396B507E01C47AB880D7EEF9ECCD171.ashx
Overseas Development Institute. Working Paper 365 Monitoring and Evaluation for Advocacy http://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/8928.pdf
Accountability
A checklist and scoring exercise regarding how well accountability and responsiveness to local constituents is embedded in day to day operations can be found on the MANGO website: http://www.mango.org.uk/Pool/G-Accountability-to-beneficiaries-Checklist.pdf
Transparency International
Integrity pacts between local and national governments and the Transparency International in order to commit to good practice in procurement: http://www.transparency.org/whatwedo/tools/integrity_pacts/4/
Business guidelines for countering bribery
http://www.transparency.org/whatwedo/tools/business_principles_for_countering_bribery/1/
The Right to Food – Methodological Toolkit
Includes guidance on budget analysis; advocacy and legislative frameworks amongst other topics: http://www.fao.org/righttofood/publications/en/?tx_mblnewsevent_organizer=19849
IIED (2004) Linking participatory approaches to policy and governance
http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/G02106.pdf
Advocacy Tools for good governance
Power analysis
http://www.advocate-for-children.org/advocacy/strategizing_for_advocacy/strategic_analysis_tools
The power cube approach: http://www.powercube.net/
Process mapping: http://netmap.wordpress.com/process-net-map/
Gender
What Men and Women Want: A practical guide to gender and participation
Resources for global advocacy efforts
Global Commitments
It can be challenging to find the appropriate information to follow up on commitments and accountability for nutrition. Below are some suggestions:
HANCI – Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index – Includes scorecards that measure political commitment towards reducing hunger and undernutrition in each country: http://www.hancindex.org/
The Global Nutrition Report: http://globalnutritionreport.org/
Budget Transparency and Child Nutrition Report: http://internationalbudget.org/wp-content/uploads/Budget-Transparency-and-Child-Nutrition-23Apr13.pdf
United Kingdom Government Nutrition for Growth commitments: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nutrition-for-growth-one-year-on