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Global Nutrition Cluster
Issue 25 | December 11, 2020

Dear all,

The Global Nutrition Cluster Technical Alliance was officially launched on the 2^nd of December, with over 300 participants attending the launch event online. The launch was an opportunity to highlight the ambition, objectives and activities of the GNC Technical Alliance. A recording of the event is now available on this link.

This past week the GNC and the SUN Movement conducted three regional webinars on the opportunities and challenges for strengthening the humanitarian-development nexus for nutrition. The webinar recordings and associated policy briefs can be found on this link. This week also saw the launch of a new partnership between the GNC and RedR UK to work on the development of content for the new GNC digital learning platform. The GNC will make new modules and training materials available online in the coming months.

The GNC is also pleased to share the updated Operational Support Dashboard, reflecting the latest operational support activities carried out by the GNC-CT in November 2020.

Best wishes,

The GNC-CT

Global Nutrition Cluster
Technical Alliance
Updates

The GNC Technical Alliance officially launched on December 2^nd. A recording and resources related to the event, including a Q&A document are available here. To request support from the GNC Technical Alliance, go here.

Infant & Young Child Feeding in Emergencies Individual Capacity Assessment Tool | Assessment of available capacities to provide context-specific orientation/training on IYCF-E is one of the six practical steps set out in the Operational Guidance on Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies. Developed by Save the Children and Tech RRT, with support of members of the IFE Core Group, this capacity assessment tool can be used before an emergency (in the preparedness phase) as well as during an emergency. This tool is developed to help organisations understand what individual technical capacity exists and what types of capacity development activities are needed to provide high-quality IYCF services during emergencies

The COVID-19 Maternal, Child Health & Nutrition repository has been updated with 127 new publications. The repository can be accessed here.

News this week

The Global Nutrition Cluster Support Dashboard was updated with latest data for November 2020. The dashboard is an information management tool that visually tracks, analyzes and displays key performance indicators regarding the GNC's operational support to countries.
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Review of opportunities and challenges for strengthening the humanitarian-development nexus for nutrition

The GNC and the SUN Movement commissioned a review of opportunities and challenges for strengthening humanitarian and development linkages for nutrition. As a result of this work three case studies were developed highlighting examples, challenges and lessons learned from the HDN work in Myanmar, Niger and Afghanistan.
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UNHCR IYCF Project - Call for Expression of Interest

UNHCR has released a call for Expression of Interest for partners on the following topic:

Supporting the rollout of the multi-sectoral “IYCF friendly” framework for action for refugee situations and enhancing IYCF and IYCF-E capacity in refugee operations and refugee hosting communities.
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The Inter-Agency Evaluation on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls

The Inter-Agency Evaluation on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls formulates eight recommendations addressed to the IASC stakeholders, including the IASC Principals, the IASC Deputies Forum, the Operational Policy and Advocacy Group and the Emergency Directors Group (EDG). It also contains a number of observations regarding the global clusters.
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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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