30-Apr-2013: "The management of acute malnutrition at scale: A review of donor and government financing arrangements" was uploaded to the website. This review considers the enabling and constraining aspects of humanitarian, transition and development financing, the contexts and rationale in which severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) are jointly addressed in CMAM programming; the role of key United Nations (UN) agencies in enabling programme integration and coordination; individual donor policies and strategies for supporting CMAM in emergency, transition and development contexts; and opportunities for achieving greater impact of efforts to manage acute malnutrition.
29-Apr-2013: The fifth GNC partners conference call was held. Minutes of the call will be uploaded to the website.
29-Apr-2013: Minutes of the second SAG meeting were uploaded to the website.
28-Apr-2013: Minutes of the fourth GNC partners meeting were uploaded to the website.
15-Apr-2013: Introducing the new Household Economy Approach & Cost of the Diet website! This exciting new web resource hosts over 200 Household Economy Approach (HEA) and 18 Cost of the Diet (CoD) reports produced by numerous organisations since 2005. These reports provide much needed information on aspects of food security, livelihoods and nutrition in over 30 countries that are not publicly available. Vital information such as this should be easily accessible to inform improved decision-making for policy and programmes. It is the most up-to-date and comprehensive global resource for these innovative tools. The aim of this website is to bring HEA and CoD practitioners together by sharing reports, guidance, experience, and training opportunities. For more information about these tools, please see below. This website has been developed by Save the Children with support from the Food Economy Group (FEG) and with funding from ECHO. The intention is that this will be a low maintenance website that will be updated largely by you, the practitioner. We hope that you will make use of this valuable resource and share your own HEA and CoD reports, assessments and training opportunities via the website.
Visit www.heawebsite.org and create a log-in and upload reports, trainings and assessment dates or post a query on the CoD forum.
Features:
• Interactive map that hosts over 200 HEA and 18 CoD reports including four reports containing integrated analysis of HEA and CoD information to inform policy and programming (from Bangladesh, DRC, Nigeria and Niger)
• 4 new CoD baseline reports (from Turkana, Burkina Faso and Bangladesh) and 3 new HEA baseline profiles (from Turkana and Bangladesh) resulting from an ECHO funded project aimed at building capacity on integrated food security and nutrition analysis
• Forums, FAQs and guidelines, including a French translation of the HEA Practitioner’s Guide (coming soon)
• Training & assessments calendar where you can find and post upcoming opportunities to expand the number of people trained in the HEA and CoD methods
10-April-2013: Minutes of the first GNC SAG conference call and a final SAG TOR endorsed by SAG members were posted on the website.
09-Apr-2013: A blog discussion, written by Rob Bailey (Chatham House) and Andrew Seal (UCL, GNC partner), has been posted by PloS Med. It considers the context to the Somalia famine in 2011 and the reasons for the inadequate humanitarian response. There are also plans to follow this up with a longer article that will explore the issues in more depth.
04-Apr-2013: The training section has undergone a major revision with eight pages providing 22 learning materials (training packages and online trainings). The training section now consists of the following pages:
04-Apr-2013: A new SPHERE e-learning course has been launched by SPHERE project. The course is open to everyone and is free of charge. The full course takes about six hours to complete and at the end you will be given a certificate of completion. For the time being, the course is available in English only. Arabic, French and Spanish versions are expected in early April.
28-Mar-2013: GNC started recruitment procedures for Rapid Response Team members (Nutrition Cluster Coordinators and Information Management Officers). The recruitment is expected to be finished within one month. Please follow our vacancies page regularly. You may also wish to request more information from gnc@unicef.org.
28-Mar-2013: The information sharing call was conducted with GNC partners on Syria crisis.
25-Mar-2013: Based on the feedback from stakeholders, OCHA revised MIRA guidance. A feedback is requested by 3rd of April from nutrition stakeholders to aziolkovska@unicef.org.
25-Mar-2013: The report from the consultation "Mid Upper Arm Circumference and Weight-for-Height Z-score as indicators of severe acute malnutrition: a consultation of operational agencies and academic specialists to understand the evidence, identify knowledge gaps and to inform operational guidance" held in December 2012 was uploaded to the website. If you have any queries regarding this consultation or would like to submit a feedback, please contact Marie McGrath from ENN directly: marie@ennonline.net
21-Mar-2013: GNC partners conference call was held. Minutes of the call will be uploaded to the website.
21-Mar-2013: Minutes of the fourth NCCs' conference call, held on 28th of February, were uploaded to the website.
20-Mar-2013: Report of the results of the evaluation of a Blanket Supplementary Feeding Program (BSFP) implemented in the Turkana and Wajir Counties of northern Kenya between August 2011 and March 2012 was uploaded to the website.
20-Mar-2013: Minutes of the GNC partners and Mali Nutrition Cluster conference call were uploaded to the website.
19-Mar-2013: Minutes of the face-to-face meeting of GNC partners held from 24-25 January 2013 were uploaded to the website and are available here.
13-Mar-2013: The first Interim Strategic Advisory Group conference call took place on 13th of May 2013. Six SAG members were present during the call. Minutes of the call will be uploaded to the website.
07-Mar-2013: A final version of the Nutrition Cluster Handbook has been uploaded to the GNC website. Printing of the handbook is in process.
07-Mar-2013: An additional HTP Module 23 on "Nutrition of older people in emergencies" has been finilised and is available to download from the GNC website.
06-Mar-2013: For the attention of all GNC partners! Through funding from the GNC, International Medical Corps is facilitating a training for GNC partners in Cluster Coordination and the Humanitarian Approach - April 30, May 1, and May 2, 2013, in Geneva (more...)
26-Feb-2013: Members of the GNC Interim Strategic Advisory grooup has been identified (more...)
15-Feb-2013: The conference call between GNC partners and Mali Nutrition Cluster was held.
14-Feb-2013: Links and information on a new manual produced by HelpAge International were addedd. This manual produced with funding from the European Community’s Humanitarian Office (ECHO) provides guidance for the implementation of three key action points to formulate an initial emergency needs assessment that includes older people.
The aim of this guidance is therefore to ensure that the specific vulnerabilities and capacities of older people in emergencies are fully taken into account as part of a thorough gender and age analysis of humanitarian needs.
It can be utilised whether agencies are engaged in coordinated assessments through the Multi-cluster Initial Rapid Assessment (MIRA) methodology or whether they carry out individual assessments applying any of the different existing methodologies within their organisations.
11-Feb-2013: GNC has created a members-only group/forum for Cluster/Sector Coordinators, Information Managers and Nutrition Specialists at global, national and sub-national levels who work in Nutrition in Emergencies. Based on the requests from the field, the group/forum was created with the following objectives:
It is hosted on linkedin.com (discussions visible only to invited members). In order to join the group, please send a message to Anna Ziolkovska (aziolkovska@unicef.org) or directly on linkedin.com.
06-Feb-2013: Information on GNC Interim Strategic Advisory Group has been added.
30-Jan-2013: "MAM decision tool" has been translated into French and is available here
29-Jan-2013: The final (in terms of content, not design) version of GNC Handbook is now available at the GNC website
24 to 25-Jan-2013: GNC face-to-face meeting, Geneva, Switzerland. Presentations are available here. Meeting report will be uploaded soon.
23-Jan-2013: The GNC website has been updated. It now allows users to access more detailed, up to date information on all aspects of the nutrition clusters' work in emergencies. Some of the main updates are highlighted below:
Please visit our website on a regular basis as it is regularly updated. If you think that we missed some important information, documents, guidance, etc. as well as if you have any suggestions on a website improvement, please do not hesitate to contact us (aziolkovska@unicef.org) as soon as possible.
