Driving Nutrition Action Through the Budget: A Guide to Nutrition Responsive Budgeting

This guide identifies what makes a Public Financial Management (PFM) system responsive to nutrition needs, and what actions can be taken to develop a reform program in a capacity constrained context. Across the stages in the budget cycle, it identifies basic requirements that are necessary for a nutrition responsive PFM reform and develops advanced options that could be pursued if context appropriate.

Following, this guide will allow stakeholders to map priority interventions from strategic plans into the government budget, identify what interventions were approved in the budget, map out when budgets were released for these interventions and monitor spending and implementation. Together this creates the necessary foundation for matching spending data with outcome information to allow for evidence-based course correction.