Launched in September 2010, the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement catalyses co...
Launched in September 2010, the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement catalyses collective action towards ending malnutrition in all its forms. Led by 60 SUN Countries and four Indian States, the SUN Movement is an unprecedented effort to bring together stakeholders – governments, national and international civil society organizations, businesses, the UN system, researchers and scientists across different sectors – to create an enabling environment to improve nutrition.
SUN countries and all stakeholders in the Movement are committed to scaling up nutrition, by strengthening four strategic processes at country-level as set out in the SUN Movement Strategy and Roadmap 2016-2020:
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Expanding and sustaining an enabling political environment;
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Prioritising effective actions that contribute to good nutrition;
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Implementing actions aligned with national common results frameworks;
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Effectively using and significantly increasing, financial resources for nutrition.
The SUN Movement Secretariat was established in 2012 as a small coordinating mechanism to support SUN countries, helping them connect with each other for support and advice, and ensuring coordinated and coherent support from actors in a series of networks. The Secretariat also maintains momentum across the SUN Movement, catalyzing interest and action in new or problematic nutrition issues. Finally, the Secretariat tracks and communicates the progress made by each SUN country, and the Movement as a whole.
The Scaling Up Nutrition Movement Pooled Fund (The Pooled Fund) is being used as a source of last resort funding for catalytic and innovative projects to support Multi-Sector/Stakeholder Platforms in SUN Countries to increase the effectiveness and impact of national efforts to end malnutrition in all its forms. Pooled Fund grants will promote engagement of additional relevant actors in the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder national plans for nutrition, at national and sub-national level. The Pooled Fund concept was developed in 2017 with the aim to strengthen the capacity of non-governmental systems in SUN Countries. It takes into consideration the lessons-learned from the 2012-2015 Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF) Evaluation, its Management Response, and the SUN Movement Strategy and Roadmap (2016-2020). The Pooled Fund is coherent with the SUN Movement stewardship arrangements and processes at national and global levels. The Pooled Fund is administered by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS).
Under the overall guidance Portfolio Manager and direct supervision of Grants Officer, the incumbent will be responsible for preparing call for proposals for the SUN Movement Pooled Fund, drafting and tracking Grant Agreements, financial tracking and lead on the development of the annual and interim narrative and financial reports for donors.