Background: Solutions to create enabling nutrition environments must come from within communities and involve multiple sectors. As vital actors in community mobilization, rights-based advocacy, and accountable public institutions, civil society organizations (CSOs) can help ensure nutrition programs and policies represent and reach all community members to achieve impact. Objectives: To review attributes of civic engagement in multisectoral nutrition governance systems and to provide recommendations to increase CSO participation. Methods: We reviewed 7 national case studies of Civil Society Networks involved with the Scaling Up Nutrition movement and characterized 6 functional attributes of CSOs in multisectoral nutrition governance: identify needs of all community members, mobilize and build civic capacity, advocate for political commitments, inform program design and evaluation, ensure accountability mechanisms in public institutions, and report challenges and successes using broad media campaigns. Results: All studies described government agencies involved with multisectoral nutrition governance systems, at national and subnational levels; however, there was limited evidence of subnational platforms for CSO engagement. Although countries increased investments in public institutions for nutrition, it was unclear whether nutrition service quality improved and none reported corresponding investments in civil society. Conclusion: Our characterization identifies strategies to engage CSOs in multisectoral nutrition governance at multiple ecological levels. We hope future adaptation and application of this characterization will increase community ownership and diverse representation in nutrition governance systems. Both of these are key to enabling national and international entities to address malnutrition’s underlying determinants in ways that align with local contexts, values, and systems change processes.

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民间社会在多部门营养治理系统中的作用是什么？多国审查

背景：创造有利营养环境的解决方案必须来自社区内部并涉及多个部门。作为社区动员、基于权利的宣传和负责任的公共机构的重要参与者，民间社会组织 (CSO) 可以帮助确保营养计划和政策代表并影响所有社区成员，以实现影响。目标：审查公民参与多部门营养治理系统的属性，并提供建议以增加公民社会组织的参与。方法：我们审查了参与扩大营养运动的民间社会网络的 7 个国家案例研究，并描述了民间社会组织在多部门营养治理中的 6 个功能属性：确定所有社区成员的需求，动员和建设公民能力，倡导政治承诺，为计划设计和评估提供信息，确保公共机构的问责机制，并利用广泛的媒体宣传活动报告挑战和成功。结果：所有研究都描述了在国家和次国家层面参与多部门营养治理系统的政府机构；然而，关于公民社会组织参与的地方平台的证据有限。尽管各国增加了对公共营养机构的投资，但尚不清楚营养服务质量是否有所改善，也没有报告对民间社会进行相应投资。结论：我们的描述确定了让公民社会组织参与多个生态层面的多部门营养治理的策略。我们希望这种特征的未来适应和应用将增加社区所有权和营养治理系统中的多样化代表。这两者都是使国家和国际实体能够以符合当地情况、价值观和系统变革过程的方式解决营养不良的潜在决定因素的关键。