Events

"NUTRITION AS EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT:How can Nutrition in Emergencies programmes optimise young child development?"Wednesday, 15 May 2024, 14:00 – 15:30 (GMT+1/CET/Geneva Time)  Click here to register your spotSpeaker: Maureen Black from RTI International and University of Maryland School of MedicinePanel of practitioners: Rosemary Mwaisaka, Africa ECD…

The GNC supports countries, UNICEF as the Nutrition Cluster Lead Agency, and nutrition partners at subnational, national, regional, and global levels to ensure they are adequately staffed and skilled to prepare for, respond to, and recover from, situations of fragility (GNC Strategy – Strategic objective 1). This ambition, with agreement from partners, led to the…

"Where does the cluster system really add value in a changing humanitarian landscape? Reflections from the field"7 May 2024, 14:00-15:30 (UTC+2) (face-to-face session delivered in English, with online connection)Click here to register for the online eventThe humanitarian system is ever more stretched, with the highest number of conflicts since World War II, prolonged…

Session abstractEffective co-coordination within humanitarian coordination is key in fulfilling the localisation agenda, and in contributing to ensuring that aid is efficient, effective, and accountable for affected communities – in line with the Grand Bargain commitments. Under the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Transformative Agenda, Cluster Lead Agencies are…

Over the last few years, calls for humanitarian agencies and donors to be ‘as local as possible, and as international as necessary’ have dominated dialogue within the humanitarian space, with discourse on how this aim can be achieved. Despite efforts towards this, Local and National Actors (LNAs) access to and participation, representation, and leadership in the…