An analysis of the Technical Assistance provided by TAN partners to SUN Countries

This brief is part of a series of three briefs which aim to document technical assistance (TA) within the TAN programme, particularly exploring best practices and lessons learned from TA provision. The first brief considered TA ways of working within the TAN project and a third brief explores the value of TA provision within countries. This, the second brief, aims to explore the landscape of TA provision by the TAN partners, unpacking common TA themes and reflections on trends within TA provision during the four years of the TAN programme. 

The Technical Assistance for Nutrition (TAN) programme, funded with UK aid from the UK government, is a mechanism to provide technical assistance (TA) to Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) country governments and build capacities towards advancing their multisectoral nutrition agendas, in line with the SUN Movement principles and roadmap. TAN also strives to generate, learn from, adapt and disseminate knowledge of what works within and across countries in the SUN Movement. TAN partners are the SUN Movement Secretariat (SMS), Maximising the Quality of Scaling up Nutrition Plus (MQSUN+), Nutrition International, and the Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN). MQSUN+ and Nutrition International provide TA to SUN countries, while ENN provides knowledge management (KM) support to SUN countries, the TAN programme and SMS more broadly.