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South Sudan Nutrition Cluster biweekly meeting

MINUTES FOR NUTRITION CLUSTER PARTNERS MEETING HELD AT UNICEF PAYOT CONFERENCE ROOM, 5 th April 2019

Meeting minutes

Chair: Hermann OuedraogoNote taker: Koki Kyalo

AGENDA.1. Welcome and introductions – 5 min2. Approval of the provisional agenda (By NC-CT) – 5 min3. Review of action points from previous meeting (By NC-CT) – 20 min4. Cluster Updates (By NC-CT)

a. Programme updates – 10 minb. CCPM Report and action Plan validation (By NC-CT) – 20 min

5. Core Pipeline Updates (By UNICEF & WFP) – 10 min6. NIWG Updates (By NIWG) – 10 min7. Updates on Supportive Supervision & Monitoring (By UNICEF & WFP) – 20 min8. AOB (NC-CT) – 20 min

1. Welcome and introductions

The chair called the meeting to start at 11 15 Hours with round of introduction of participants.

2. Approval of the provisional agenda

The agenda was adopted by the meeting as it had been shared on email.

3. Review of the action points from the previous meeting

Action points Focal point/agency Timeline Status

Nutrition cluster to continue updating the number of operational nutrition sites on monthly bases.

All 10th of each month

Ongoing

All the nutrition partners to start working with their respective SMoH for the preparation of the annual review workshop

MoH States and Partners

1st week of March

Done

MIYCN TWG to give guidance on the Individual counselling indicators

MIYCN TWG 5th April Scheduled to be addressed under Tech RRT support

Cluster Coordination team- Hermann Ouedraogo, [email protected] Koki Kyalo, [email protected] Qutab Alam, [email protected]

South Sudan Nutrition Cluster biweekly meeting,05.04.2019, Meeting minutes

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Cluster members to update the 3Ws template so that it tally’s with NIS reports

Partners 20th April Ongoing

The cluster to check with NIWG to check if the increase in the admissions is due to population increase or due to a worsening nutrition situation.

NC-CT 5th April Ongoing

The nutrition cluster to do further analysis by site and states to see where the majority of the admissions are coming from

NC-CT 5th April Ongoing

Partners to review their data to advise the cluster the reason for high admissions

All 5th April Partners to respond

The cluster coordination team to provide an update to partners on the agreement from their meeting with PSI

NC-CT 5th April Request submitted/ Awaiting meeting

The cluster to share report of partner RDT 2018 consumption

NC-CT 18th March Done

A draft Nutrition Cluster dashboard to be shared with partners to give inputs on data elements to be captured

NC-CT 18th March Under review

Meeting of the 16 priority counties scheduled for Thursday, 21st March 2019

NC-CT 21st March Done

Partners who have not yet submitted planned survey plan to do it ASAP so that it can be mapped

All 20th March Ongoing

NIWG through the cluster to send the Schedule to partners so that they can participate in the FSNMS within their areas of operations.

NIWG 20th March Done

Cluster to share with the member the preliminary report ahead of the CCPM workshop

NC-CT Done

Medair and nutrition cluster members to organise a meeting with the Health cluster to see how to maximise on immunization opportunities

NC-CT Ongoing

4. Cluster Updates

a. Programme updates A - Review of SAM and MAM admissions

Showing increased number of admissions in January-February 2019 in Jonglei, Lakes, NBEG, Unity, Upper Nile and Warrap, as compared to January-February 2018 (see attached cluster summary)



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Contributions by Partners on the Reasons for increase- Peace and more areas are accessible. There is reported more free movement. Some areas of

Jonglei had serious access issues before.- Reporting improved in January and February?- There are reports on returnees.- Expansion of sites in 2019- Long drought seasons that started in 2018. Need for a further analysis of yearly trends in the past

years at this time of year- The trends indicate that the SAM and MAM for past years has remained persistently high

Quality of data concerns raised at the meeting coming from states/counties/nutrition sites. It is agreed that:

- Strengthen monitoring by partner managers on data quality and reporting- Strengthening sub national monitoring by WFP and UNICEF

B - Updates on the series of workshops conducted last and this week:

Annual Nutrition Review Meeting held at Juba Regency on the 26 th and 27 th March 2019 Summary of the meeting in the attached cluster Presentation.

Capacity Strengthening Workshop - 28th to 30th March- Attendance: 49- MoH Department of Nutrition National and Jubek- Field officers UNICEF and WFP- SAG members- GNC

Action points Focal point/agency TimelineStrengthening at sub national monitoring by WFP and UNICEF

UNICEF/WFP Continuous

A further analysis of yearly trends in the past years at this time of year

NIWG 19th April 2019

Regular Data review and monitoring by respective partners

Partners Monthly

Monthly sharing of NIS compiled data to partners through sub national cluster focal persons

NC-CT 20th of Each moth

Partners with additional inputs on Final Cluster CCPM to submit them by 12th April 2019

Partners 12th April 2019



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b. CCPM Report and action Plan validation

South Sudan Nutrition Cluster Coordination Performance Monitoring (CCPM) Validation WorkshopAttendance: 33 (Partners, GNC). Deliberation and agreed activities (See Report and action plan)

Action points Focal point/agency TimelinePartners with additional inputs on Final Cluster CCPM to submit them by 12th April 2019

Partners 12th April 2019

5. Core pipeline updates

WFP Core Pipeline

WFP reporting a 20% shortfall of the core pipeline (Including Prepositioning) between the period April – September 2019. The shortfall is estimated at $ 16,305,090

Key messages by WFP on Nutrition Core pipelineo Well resourced to support prepositioningo Strong prepositioning exercise on-going in many parts of the Greater Upper Nile Regiono Low shortfall for Refugee activities

Addressing Stock-outso Do regular physical inventory of stocks on biweekly or monthly basiso Regularly update WFP on status of supplies and also alert on admission trendso Alert WFP FO at least one month ahead of stock-out to replenish supplieso If no feedback from FO contact country office

UNICEF Core Pipeline

UNICE has 22% gaps to the requirements in 2019. Currently supplies available until end of August 2019 and additional 3-months buffer stock;

UNICEF indicates that only 32/116 sites have shared stock reports. UNICEF stock reports are required by 5th of each month;

Since January UNICEF have been conducting prepositioning; Partners are urged to share request and preposition in good time



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6. NIWG Updates

SMART Survey status

County Status Guit Field work completed - Waiting for report Bentiue PoC-RK Field work completed - Waiting for report Canal Team on ground Cueibet Field work completed - Waiting for report Panyikang Team on ground - has initial problems Leer Planned -Proposal reviewedTwic East Planned -Proposal reviewed

Partners have committed upto 24 SMART surveys in 2019 according to the SMART survey plan submitted by partners. Below is the summary in the 10 former states;

State NoCentral Equatoria 2

Eastern EquatoriaJonglei 5

LakesN Bahr el Ghazal 4Unity 5Upper Nile 6W Bahr el Ghazal 1Warrap 1

Western EquatoriaGrand Total 24

Concerns raised over the high GAM rates reported in the Juba PoC SMART survey. More detailed analysis to elaborate the drivers for malnutrition. Concern report need to the analysis of the SMART survey findings to the link to coverage assessment that had been conducted at end of 2018 in Juba PoC. WASH access is poor according to the report.

There are no SMART surveys planned by UNICEF due to funding constraints. Partners requested if WFP can support SMART surveys



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FSNMS First Round schedule.

The NIWG is requesting partners to provide support in the following areas;- TOT training support- Field training of enumerators - Supervision and monitoring - Equipment

Attached NIWG Updates Presentation

Action points Focal point/agency TimelineFSNMS Report to be presented in the next cluster meeting


Nutrition Cluster to advocate for additional resources for SMART surveys for funding

NC-CT Donor Meeting

Nutrition Cluster to consult WFP for SMART surveys funding

NC-CT 19th April 2019

Detailed analysis of the drivers of malnutrition in Juba PoC SMART Survey conducted by Concern


7. Updates on Supportive Supervision & Monitoring

Supportive Supervision Project UNICEF

Supportive supervision is implemented by UNICEF in 2 states funded by OFDA UNICEF has received more funding and has scaled up supportive supervision in 2 additional states.

The four states are; Jonglei, EES, Unity and NBEG The supportive supervision will be covering states that account for 55% of the children with SAM



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Main components of the supportive supervision- Capacity development for nutrition/ health workers at all levels to provide quality of

CMAM services.- Assessment of nutrition service delivery gaps at the CMAM /OTP sites in the selected

states Unity, NBeG, Jonglei and EE states.- Institute corrective actions for identified gaps through on the job training coaching,

support, and mentorship.- Conduct learning sessions and document the lessons learnt

Attached is the presentation

WFP Monitoring and Evaluation Findings

WFP conducts routine monitoring of the cooperating partners TSFP, BSFP and IFP sites on a monthly basis. The data is collected by staff on the field and supported by MEAL workforce

The findings are usually discussed with the partners or relevant staff on the site then the team prepares the BTOR (Back to office report) that is shared with the MEAL team.

Attached is the presentation

8. AOB

There was no AoB



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