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Global Nutrition Cluster
Issue 20 | October 02, 2020

Dear all,

This week the GNC and the SUN Movement hosted a webinar on the Humanitarian-Development Nexus for nutrition, showcasing three recent case studies from Afghanistan, Myanmar and Niger. The webinar was an opportunity to explore how humanitarian and development actors can work together to enhance nutrition outcomes. The recording of the webinar can be accessed on this link.

This week also saw the release of two new guidance documents: a Technical Brief on Supportive Spaces for Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies, produced by the GTAM, and a new Addendum to the Nutrition Humanitarian Needs Analysis Guidance, produced by the GNC. The new Addendum provides guidance on conducting sectoral and inter-sectoral analyses using the Joint Intersectoral Analysis Framework (JIAF).

Best wishes,

The GNC-CT

COVID-19 updates

NEW Updates on Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition and COVID-19 - scientific journal articles – 24 September 2020 | The Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition and COVID-19 scientific repository has been updated with nearly 135 new publications for SEPTEMBER (112 new), AUGUST (13 new), JULY (3 new), JUNE (3 new), MAY (1 new), and APRIL (3 new). Please visit this link for more information.

All new publications provide research-related findings on COVID-19, maternal and child health (including infants) and nutrition. A specific repository has been created on COVID-19, breastfeeding, infant feeding and breast milk.

GNC Support Dashboard

The Global Nutrition Cluster (GNC) Support Dashboard is an information management tool that visually tracks, analyzes and displays key performance indicators regarding GNC operational support to countries. It is real-time monitoring of both direct and indirect support since March 1st 2020. It is user-friendly with a regional filter option and several pages for easy navigation. The summary table provides a list of GNC priority countries and an overview of the different types of support that GNC-CT provides.
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News this week

GNC/SUN project: HDN case studies and recommendations

This webinar provided the opportunity to hear from three recent case studies conducted in Afghanistan, Myanmar and Niger, on the Humanitarian-Development Nexus for Nutrition. The case studies examined the ways in which humanitarian and development actors work together, or not, to enhance nutrition outcomes and aims to provide some inputs to the operationalisation of the Nexus in the nutrition sector.
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Supportive Spaces for Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies: Technical Brief

This technical brief aims to start addressing this gap by providing an overview of existing knowledge, guidance and tools related to supportive spaces. It is designed for practitioners and programmers, who are considering implementing IYCF corners and MBAs, to inform them of the available resources and tools and to help guide implementation.
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New Addendum to support Nutrition Humanitarian Needs Analysis and Intersectoral Analysis

This addendum outlines key considerations for the nutrition sectoral analysis and subsequent inputs to inform, support and guide the development of a joint inter-sectoral needs analysis in support of the Humanitarian Programme Cycle.
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Upcoming events

2021 HRP Process from a Nutrition Lens

The GNC-CT would like to share a Save the Date for the upcoming webinars entitled 2021 Humanitarian Response Plan Process from a Nutrition Lens.

These webinars are scheduled to take place on Tuesday 13th October (English) and Thursday 15th October (French). The purpose of these webinars is to discuss the enhanced HRP process through a nutrition lens. Colleagues from nutrition sector/cluster coordination mechanisms, as well as colleagues from other sectors/clusters that wish to better connect their respective sectors with nutrition, are invited to participate in these webinars.

We will share the webinar invitations, with details on the time and registration, closer to the date.

Revisiting the Evidence on Kwashiorkor Malnutrition Webinar Series

Kwashiorkor malnutrition affects hundreds of thousands of children and kills tens of thousands each year. Although recognized as a unique form of malnutrition since the 1930s, its etiology is still unclear. In 1968, a group of scientists studying and treating kwashiorkor met to discuss differences between kwashiorkor and wasting, leading to the diagnostic criteria currently used in treatment and study designs.
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Rosters of consultants

The Global Technical Assistance Mechanism for Nutrition (GTAM) has Qualified Consultants Ready for Deployment!

Are you or your organization seeking qualified nutrition consultants?

The GTAM Consultant Rosters have more than 100 vetted consultants speaking more than 40 languages from around the world, ranging from Junior to Senior level in the following technical areas:

Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM)
Infant and Young Child Feeding in emergencies (IYCF-E)
Micronutrient supplementation in emergencies
Integrated nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions
Needs assessment and analysis for nutrition outcomes (SMART, IYCF-E, coverage surveys and qualitative assessments)

Any partner, agency, cluster, sector or technical working group in country identifying a need for nutrition staff support can submit a request for consultant recommendations. The GTAM Consultant Roster’s goal is to provide fast, qualified, consultant recommendations with specific technical knowledge in emergency nutrition.

To learn more about the consultant roster or to submit a request/inquiry please visit the GTAM consultant roster page.

Tech RRT Remote Support

The Technical Rapid Response Team (Tech RRT) has advisors with expertise in CMAM, IYCF-E, SBC, Assessments and Surveillance, who are available to provide remote support to individual organisations or the collective nutrition response.
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Current vacancies

The Global Technical Assistance Mechanism for Nutrition (GTAM) Consultant Rosters

The Global Technical Assistance Mechanism for Nutrition (GTAM) is happy to once again be advertising and accepting consultant applications for the five Consultant Rosters which are hosted by Action Against Hunger Canada and UNICEF.

The rosters consist of vetted consultants to support actors working in emergencies to source technical expertise quickly. There are five (5) different rosters, each covering a specific technical area:

Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) (Apply here)
Infant and Young Child Feeding in emergencies (IYCF-E) (Apply here)
Micronutrient supplementation in emergencies (Apply here)
Integrated nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions (Apply here)
Needs assessment and analysis for nutrition outcomes (SMART, IYCF-E, coverage surveys and qualitative assessments) (Apply here)

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