CS-SUNN Takes Advocacy On 2025 Nutrition Plans To Enugu Budget Office

Civil Society Scaling-Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN) has taken its advocacy visit to the Enugu State Ministry of Budget and Planning to seek nutrition information and the state’s nutrition plan for 2025.

CS-SUNN is a non-governmental, non-profit making coalition, made up of organizations with a shared vision to transform Nigeria into a country where every citizen has food and is nutrition secured.

Enugu State Coordinator of CS-SUNN, Finian Ali, who led the group and its partners on the visit told the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Budget and Planning, Clara Nwakaego Eze, that they were in her office to seek nutrition information, see what the budget had been in the last quarter, what the nutrition plan for 2025 is, and to know the part where that will take them.

He encouraged the state government to scale up her budget on nutrition, noting that healthy people build a healthy society.

Ali informed the Permanent Secretary, that CS-SUNN would continue to partner the state to ensure that people, especially women and children feed well to avoid stunted growth and diseases.

He informed her that Anambra and other states in each region who had good budgets on nutrition in 2024, received an award of $500,000 each.

He, therefore, called on Enugu state Government to scale up budget on nutrition, noting that CS-SUNN would continue to promote good nutrition in the state.

Responding, Clara Nwakaego Eze, the
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Budget And Planning, Enugu State, said they had
worked well with CS-SUNN to improve the nutrition status of Enugu and well-being of the people.

She said knowing how much is budgeted on nutrition is very important and what happens after is also very important. Eze stressed the need to follow-up the advocacy visits and implementation of the allocation made on nutrition.

She observed that people were not eating right and, ” Malnutrition is seen much more amongst the poor.” She added that, Nutrition is not only about women and children, rather for every one. She assured the group that Enugu State will continue to support them and healthy nutrition to avoid stunted growth and diseases.