Open review of coverage methodologies (SQUEAC, SLEAC, S3M)

The Coverage Monitoring network (CMN) is an inter-agency project led by action against Hunger (ACF) and its partners: International Medical Corps, Concern Worldwide, and Helen Keller International. Working together with UNICEF and the Global nutrition Cluster, the CMN Project was launched in July 2012 with support from the European Commission Directorate General for Humanitarian aid and Civil Protection (ECHO) and USAID’s Office of Foreign Disaster assistance (OFDA).

The CMN project aims to increase and improve coverage monitoring in community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) programs globally. Its focus is to build the capacity of nutrition stakeholders to design, implement and analyse coverage assessments. additionally and most importantly, the CMN project has sought to create a national cadre of nutrition workers capable of carrying out and advocating for coverage assessments. The project has succeeded in meeting these objectives through a number of a coverage assessments completed worldwide. These coverage assessments were conducted using the SQUEAC and SLEAC methods.

To maximize buy-in and support for coverage assessments and their results, CMN proposed an independent review of the three most commonly used coverage methodologies in the nutrition sector (SQUEAC, SLEAC and S3M) in which users were invited to pose methodological questions. The role of Epicentre was to facilitate a participatory study of the coverage methodologies where any interested party may comment and pose queries relating to the methods, and to suggest responses to these questions and comments.