2024 Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus Approach in Countries with Active Food Security Clusters

Objectives and Methodology

This report summarizes the status of the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus (HDPN) approach in countries where the Food Security Cluster (FSC) is established. 2023 – 2025 FSC strategic plan has HDPN as one of its pillars, which envisages building the FSC's capacity to contribute to and/or bridge existing development and peace coordination platforms, foster dialogue, identify synergies. This report provides an overview with regard to the objectives of the survey:

• Identify a baseline to implement the 2023 – 2025 FSC strategic plan.

• Assess the progress made in operationalizing the HDPN approach and the goals to be achieved.

• Reveal challenges and support needs for countries to operationalize the HDPN approach.

Responses were gathered from FSC Coordinators representing 27 operations.

The report provides an overview of the status of the HDPN approach in countries in four sections:

• Overview of the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus Approach at country level (as of February 2024): This section provides a comprehensive snapshot of the current status of the HDPN approach across the countries covered by the survey: leadership, coordination platforms, buy-in from government.

• Operationalizing the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus Approach in Food Security Cluster Countries: In this section, we delve deeper into the practical aspects of implementing the HDPN approach from a Food Security Cluster perspective. It shows mapping the presence of joint initiatives in terms of programming, advocacy, needs analysis, funding, MEAL.

• HDP Partners Presence and Coordination: Here, we analyze the presence and coordination of FSC partners engaged in the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus. This section explores the diversity of stakeholders involved and the geographical level of coordination among them.

• Challenges and Support Needed in Operationalizing the HDP Nexus Approach: The final section outlines the challenges encountered during the operationalization of the HDP Nexus approach and identifies the support required to address them. It offers insights into the barriers hindering progress and suggests potential solutions to overcome these obstacles effectively.

Context

Under the GNAFC initiative 2018-2022 for the gFSC, the Food Security Cluster (FSC) was tasked to build capacity to better respond to food crises by strengthening coordination among HDP actors in 5 pilot countries - Chad, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia, and South Sudan. Piloting the HDPN approach in these countries has been a starting point for formulating the HDPN as a pillar of the 2023 - 2025 FSC strategic plan, using the experience and considering the lessons learned while scaling up the approach in other contexts.

Why does the FSC continue the HDPN approach:

• Respond effectively to protracted crises by providing humanitarian assistance in a coordinated manner considering interventions and plans of development partners and advocating to addressing root causes of food insecurity.

• Gradually reduce humanitarian needs over time.

• Strengthen resilience, anticipate shocks, and prevent or mitigate new needs, thereby breaking the cycle of dependence on humanitarian assistance.

The primary role of the FSC in supporting the HDPN approach is to facilitate discussions, find common ground, support technical analysis, connect HDP actors, provide a platform for joint work, and advocate with donors.