Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health, with support from N4D, ran a two-day workshop in Addis Ababa last week to further develop its ground-breaking Nutrition Centric-Humanitarian Development Peace Triple Nexus (NC-HDPTN) joint assessment and data analysis tool. The development of this tool is one of the key next steps following the finalisation of the Operational Guidance and the Implementation Roadmap for the NC-HDPN approach.
Building on the experiences of implementing the tool in two woredas (districts in Ethiopia), the Technical Working Group (TWG) for the NC-HDPN critically examined the tools utility. It was agreed that the tool will be revised based on participant inputs and two further pilots in one agrarian and one pastoral woreda. The aim is to finalise a generic national tool by mid-November 2025.
The next step will be to produce guidance on how the information and analysis gathered through operationalisation of the tool will be used to influence and shape district and regional nutrition planning, including the Seqota Declaration, the government’s child stunting reduction initiative. At the same time the TWG aim to develop guidelines on advocacy and on the monitoring of the NC-HDPTN. In N4D’s experience, Ethiopia is among a few countries that have made such progress in operationalising a nexus approach. We congratulate all the nexus actors in leading the way on the Nexus Approach and for moving from rhetoric to practical realities and learning on the ground.
