Sustainable financing for nutrition ensures improving nutrition stays a top priority. While guidance for national budget tracking and costing for nutrition has been developed by the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement and Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition (SPRING) to advance domestic investment and accountability, how do we best incorporate transition and financing considerations into USAID nutrition programming to increase the sustainability of USAID investments?
To address this key area of sustainability planning, USAID Advancing Nutrition developed an overall theoretical framework for sustainable financing for nutrition and guidance on how USAID Missions and implementing partners can ensure USAID nutrition activities can be transferred to local plans, systems and domestic resources. By targeting nutrition activities, this guidance complements USAID’s ongoing efforts to finance self-reliance, which advances a host country’s ability to finance its own development plans and strategies.
“Transitioning Nutrition Financing from USAID to Domestic Resources”
During this webinar, speakers will present recommendations based on a literature review on transition of development assistance to domestic financing, and consultations with USAID Missions, implementing partners and government counterparts working on nutrition planning and programming. Colleagues working on nutrition activities in different countries are invited to share their experiences in designing nutrition programs to ensure that interventions will continue and be smoothly incorporated into government-managed budgets after project funding ends.
Moderator: Natasha Ledlie, Senior Program Officer, Results for Development
Presenter: Dr. Helen Connolly, a Principal Economist at AIR, has more than 30 years of experience in economic research and evaluation and has supported projects across the globe. She is experienced in methodologies of the evaluation of health, nutrition, income, gender equality, and poverty. In recent years, her focus has been on public finance for nutrition (PF4N) including the development of a PF4N course for country governments for UNICEF.
Discussants:
- Tomas Lievens, an experienced social policy economist with expertise in quantitative research and mixed research methods, health and nutrition, education and WASH financing, health insurance, as well as education and health labor markets. Much of his work focuses on public systems and expenditure performance with a special interest in equity in financing and outcomes. He is the Partner in charge of the recently established Human Development Practice at Genesis Analytics.
- Debora Niyeha, Chief of Party at USAID Advancing Nutrition, has over fourteen years of experience in program implementation, management, and oversight specifically in areas of health and nutrition, food security, food fortification, and large-scale evaluation of health and nutrition policies and programs. Debora has worked as Nutrition Lead and Program Manager for RISE RCT at Helen Keller International in Tanzania.
