Thank you for the opportunity to review this document. I have to admit that I initially skimmed it, and have not carefully reviewed each section. However in looking over the document, given the title, I expected the focus of the document to be on financing. Rather, it seemed much much more comprehensive on the critical role of partnerships to advocate, support, finance, implement and evaluate actions for food security and nutrition. This is certainly comprehensive and interesting. However, it was not until section 3 on a paragraph on mobilizing funds, and then in section 4.3 that the issue of financing emerges. I would suggest changing the title to more aptly reflect the content of this document.
With respect to efforts to mobilize finances for food security and nutrition, for the latter, there has been fairly recent activities supported by SUN (not mentioned in Box 5) and the World Bank. These are important efforts to either develop methods or to actually estimate cross sectoral expenditure on nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive actions that should be recognized in this report. I beleive FAO has also been working in this domain, and would try to find out what they have been doing in terms of supporting MSPs in this area.
In Section 3, there are text boxes on defining evaluation methods. However, in section 4, there is no background information or text box on methods and tools for helping to catalyze or mobilize resources for food security and nutrition. Often efforts to mobilize resources in other areas (immunization, HIV, RMNCH, etc), begin with a series of analyses that may include demonstrating value for money, cost-benefit or cost-effectiveness. Additionally, developing global price tags, identifying financing gaps and developing investment cases have been essential advocacy tools for defining the funding envelope needed. There are fairly well established steps and actions for generating evidence for decision makers (whether bilateral or multilateral funders, or private foundations, or governments themselves). It may be useful to see how this information could support your current efforts. Similarly, looking into previous efforts, like GAVI, in the nutrition world have been tried. I believe initially GAIN (Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition) was trying to play a similar role to GAVI, but found challenges. Unlike immunization, the cross sectoral nature of FS and nutrition provide challenges in working across sectors for raising resources.
In the background, or a text box, I think it would be useful for this document to provide the current state (levels and trends in the past decade) of financing for food secuirty and nutrition, and to provide any available information on funding gaps. This will help understand what the funding goal is of MSP financing is to fill these gaps.
CAROL LEVIN