[{"bbox": [96, 152, 1134, 234], "category": "Text", "text": "The negative developmental, economic, social, and medical impacts of this national triple burden of malnutrition are serious and lasting for individuals and their families, for communities – ultimately threatening to undermine progress towards inclusive and sustainable development."}, {"bbox": [96, 243, 1134, 511], "category": "Text", "text": "The Scaling-UP Nutrition (SUN) movement strategy 2021-2025 emphasises that actions to improve nutrition cannot achieve lasting success without addressing gender, socioeconomic inequalities and human rights in access to power, food and health care. Unequal nutrition outcomes are rooted in deeper inequities and structural causes of gender inequality. Persistent inequities take considerable effort and time to change. Therefore, the role of CSO, including women's rights organisations and those representing the rights of people living in vulnerable situations, to address the immediate and midterm nutritional consequences of these inequities is vital. For this, the national SUN Civil Society Networks (including Nepal Network) are committed to hold stakeholders accountable for commitments and actions in support of country priorities and to boost the advocacy capacity of the network, bringing the grassroots and community perspective to national and global decision-makers as duty bearers and prioritising women and those people living in vulnerable situations, as rights holders."}, {"bbox": [96, 521, 1134, 603], "category": "Text", "text": "In Nepal, civil society organisations have proven to be stalwarts of gender equality and inclusion, with very granular and nuanced understanding of the cultural and social underlying dynamics at local level that are at the root of unequal development outcomes, including nutrition."}, {"bbox": [96, 613, 1134, 854], "category": "Text", "text": "National CSOs have the possibility to raise concerns related to the impact of the policies on women and the marginalised groups' nutritional situation in the country. National CSOs are particularly important when they are representative of women in all their diversity and those people living in vulnerable situations and therefore have stronger legitimacy to talk on their behalf. CSOs can contribute with valuable information and arguments for shaping the nutrition policies in favour of the most vulnerable and marginalised population groups, and following up on these policies locally. CSOs often have closer contacts with communities, and can be the bridge so that their concerns about the access and quality of the nutrition services reach policy makers. CSOs are also well placed to generate data and evidence through data collection (including data disaggregated at least by sex, age and disability) from communities and analysis, research and evaluation activities in their respective communities."}, {"bbox": [96, 864, 1134, 1132], "category": "Text", "text": "The Nepali civil society can play a key role by offering support, constructive critique and knowledge for the government to ensure good nutrition for all. However, in order to be able to fulfil these roles, the CSOs need to be able to operate and they need to be strong and well-prepared with knowledge on technical topics. The EU's support aims at strengthening the organisations (in particular the women's rights organisations and those representing the rights of people living in vulnerable situations) and enabling them to actively participate with constructive critique, proposals and knowledge in policy discussions on nutrition; fulfil an important social accountability role and advocate for improvements in the delivery of nutrition services, including by testing multidimensional solutions that can be scaled up. With the support, it is expected that the CSOs together can help moving the national nutrition policies closer to reaching the goal of fulfilling the right to food and the right to basic health care services for all, and leaving no one behind."}, {"bbox": [96, 1143, 1072, 1198], "category": "Text", "text": "Identification of main stakeholders and corresponding institutional and/or organisational issues (mandates, potential roles, and capacities) to be covered by the support measure:"}, {"bbox": [96, 1198, 1134, 1305], "category": "Text", "text": "The key stakeholders for this support measure are, as rights holders, the most disadvantaged and vulnerable sections of society experiencing the intersection of multiple inequalities, with special attention to women, adolescent girls and children under five, as well as community-based organisations that represent them (including youth organisations)."}, {"bbox": [96, 1315, 1134, 1474], "category": "Text", "text": "The NGO Federation of Nepal is a stable network established in 1991 with a large number of Nepali NGOs. The Association of International NGOs (AIN) is an important network of 118 organisations created in 1996, which has 13 working groups, some of which relate to nutrition (e.g. health, child protection or GESI). As part of the Scaling-Up Nutrition (SUN) movement, a SUN civil society network of organisations working on nutrition is well established (Civil Society Alliance for Nutrition Nepal, CSANN). Other SUN networks include the business network, the donor network and the UN network."}, {"bbox": [96, 1485, 1134, 1621], "category": "Text", "text": "Other stakeholders include: National NGOs and CBOs representing minorities and marginalized groups (Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities, the National Federation of the Disabled Nepal, Nepal Disabled Women Association, Nepal National Dalit Social Welfare Organization and the Feminist Dalit Organization, to name a few); the government of Nepal, as duty bearers, in particular: local and provincial governments, and at federal level, the National Planning Commission (coordination role) and the 6 Ministries directly involved in MSNP"}, {"bbox": [1037, 1681, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 6 of 13"}]