Budgeting for nutrition: How civil society advocacy in Malawi is getting resources to communities

Advocacy, Child Nutrition, East and Southern Africa

CSONA, the SUN civil society alliance in Malawi, is proving that advocacy works. By partnering with parliamentary nutrition champions and the SUN Civil Society Network, they’ve fought to secure a bigger national nutrition budget – and to make sure those resources actually reach the districts that need them most. But this isn’t just a story about politics and budgets; it’s about what happens when funding reaches communities.

In one school, a teacher sums it up perfectly: “Because when I have healthy kids, my teaching will be more effective.” From parliament to classroom, this is what change looks like.

The first in a series produced by Cloud9Media, this video will be followed in the coming months by features on civil society in Vietnam, Nigeria and Peru.