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UN-Nutrition Inventory
The UN-Nutrition Inventory tool takes stock of nutrition actions supported by the United Nations in a given country, enabling colleagues to compare the focus, magnitude of investment and location of these actions. Using a common framework, the exercise analyses data by thematic and geographic area to identify gaps, overlaps and opportunities for increased synergy among UN actors. The Inventory contextualizes these findings within the country’s nutrition situation and priorities articulated in the national nutrition plan. This helps the United Nations employ a data-driven approach to strategic planning on nutrition, including with regard to the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework. It also creates a working culture conducive to joint programming on nutrition.
The UN-Nutrition Inventory has been conducted in 19 countries thus far.
Using the UN-Nutrition Inventory tool
The UN-Nutrition Inventory is used in various ways, such as:
To raise awareness about the complementarity of UN support on nutrition.
To illustrate where there is potential to increase synergies, helping United Nations agencies to operationalize the principles of UN reform.
To help integrate nutrition into the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF).
To guide other strategic planning and prioritization exercises on nutrition within the UN System at the country level, bearing in mind gaps and overlaps identified through the Inventory.
In some countries, the results from the UN-Nutrition Inventory were used to feed into the development of common UN nutrition agendas/strategies.
To guide corrective action in nutrition-related UN programming of individual UN agencies, helping to minimize duplication of efforts and to ensure no one is left behind.
To foster and enable UN joint programming on nutrition, promoting increased collaboration and operational efficiencies.
As background information for country missions, conducted by UN colleagues.
Country examples
Since the UN-Nutrition Inventory is an internal exercise, the country files are not available online. Kindly write to info@unnutrition.org if you have a specific request and the UN-Nutrition Secretariat will connect you with the appropriate UN colleagues in the country of your interest.
Disclaimer: Since some of the above materials were developed prior to the establishment of UN-Nutrition, they reflect previous branding. The UN-Nutrition Inventory tool is now supported by the UN-Nutrition Secretariat and is available upon request. For further information, please contact info@unnutrition.org.