Global Nutrition Cluster Global Event

Agenda:

Day 2 Moderators: Alexandra Rutishauser-Perera (ACF SAG member) and Tarig Mekkawi, Nutrition Cluster Coordinator, South Sudan

7:00–7:10 EDT | 13:00–13:10 CEST | 16:30–16:40 IST (10 minutes)

Welcome and Recap of Day 1

7:10-7:20 EST |13:10-13:20 CEST |17:25-17:35 IST (10 minute concurrent sessions)

• Option 1: Lightning talk: Tecnología SIG de vanguardia para enfrentar la desnutrición, el mapa y sus impactos - Samuel González y Jonathan Pires, World Vision Venezuela

• Option 2: Networking Session

• Option 3: Coffee break

7:20 - 8:05 EST | 13:20 - 14:05 CEST | 16:50 - 17:35 IST (45 minutes)

Session 6. MAMI (vulnerable infants under 6 months and their mothers)

Session lead: Nicky Dent, ENN

Session speakers: Alice Burrell, Save the Children International; Saba Shahid, The Indus Hospital Health Network Pakistan; Hana Muse Kasim, Save the Children Somaliland

• Lightning talk: Prevalence of small and nutritionally at-risk infants less than 6 months across five country contexts 

• Discussion: "Mothers in MAMI"

  • Supporting mothers of vulnerable infants under 6 months: Inviting discussion & collaboration

  • Piloting a group mental health and psychosocial support intervention for mothers of at-risk infants delivered by primary healthcare workers in Somaliland

• Sharing resources and Q&A

8:05-9:05 EST | 14:05-15:05 CEST | 17:35-18:35 IST (60 minutes)

Session 7. Wasting Management

Session lead: Martha Nakakande, IMC and Grace Funnell, UNICEF

Session speakers: Dr. Allison Daniel, WHO; Francoise Siroma, Action Against Hunger; Calvin Oben, Save the Children; Caroline Antoine, Action Contre la Faim; Daniel Muhinja, Save the Children; Adan Yusuf Mahdi, Save the Children; Calistus Wilunda, APHRC Kenya; Iris Bollemeijer, IMC; Naomi Mwikali Ndung'u, US CDC; Diane Baik, WVI; Yidnekachew Wendaferew, WV Ethiopia; Julie Tanaka, Samaritan's Purse; Rosaline Bockarie, Samaritan's Purse; Sabrina Dold, Coopération Allemande (Projet PAH/GIZ); Abou Bayo, SNV

• Overview of session

• Understanding the evidence and process for identifying factors for prioritizing specially formulated foods for infants and children with moderate wasting (guidance update)

• Lightning talk: The power of community in the fight against malnutrition in Senegal 

• Programmatic Guidance Overview

Concurrent session 7.1: Spotlight on CHW-led management of wasting

• Integrated Community Case Management Plus (iCCM+) versus outpatient therapeutic programs (OTP): a quasi-experimental study among children with severe acute malnutrition in Jowar, Somalia 

• Perceptions towards management of acute malnutrition by community health volunteers in northern Kenya

• Treatment of moderate acute malnutrition through community health volunteers is a cost-effective intervention: Evidence from a resource-limited setting, Kenya

• Q&A

Concurrent session 7.2: Local solutions spotlight 

• Breaking Dependency: Leveraging Local Foods for Scalable Nutrition in Fragile and Semi-Fragile Contexts

• Using Locally-Available Foods for the treatment of Moderate Acute Malnutrition, Niger

• La farine améliorée produite au niveau communautaire : une solution locale, efficace et réplicable à grande echelle pour lutter contre la malnutrition, Burkina Faso

• Q&A

• Wrap up

9:05-9:15 EST | 15:05-15:15 CEST | 18:35-18:45 IST (10 minute concurrent sessions)

• Option 1: Lightning talk: Tools for conducting formative research to help design contextualized messages and menus for rehabilitating underweight and/or wasted children without medical complications - Diane Baik, WVI

• Option 2: Networking Session

• Option 3: Coffee break

9:15-10:05 EST | 15:15-16:05 CEST | 18:45-19:35 IST (50 minutes)

Session 8. IFE

Session lead: Bindi Borg, IFE Core Group

Session speakers: Bindi Borg, IFE Core Group; Alessandro Iellamo, FHI360; Solomon Atuman, FHI360; Celestine Ekvuluo, FHI360

• Lightning talk: Brief on the IFE-CG

• Lightning talk on Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (IYCF-E): Measuring Progress to improve practices

• Engaging fathers to improve infant and young child nutrition in a humanitarian context: The experience of Northeast Nigeria

• Lightning talk: AI-powered solutions to protect, promote, and support IYCF in Ukraine

• Q&A

10:05-10:50 EST | 16:05-16:50 CEST | 19:35-20:20 IST (45 minutes)

Session 9. NIS

Session lead: Hassan Ali Ahmed, UNICEF 

Speakers: Anteneh Dobamo, GNC; Azimi Yakoubi, UNICEF Afghanistan; Martin Njenga, Impact REACH Initiative; Beka Teshome, Afghanistan Nutrition Cluster; Patricia Murie, Mercy Corps; Lenka Blanarova, AAH UK

• Alternative Data Sources and Analysis Methods

• Building Resilient Nutrition Systems in Fragile Settings: Insights from the Nawiri Program in Kenya

• Rapid Nutrition Determinants Assessment (Rapid NDA)

• Q&A

10:50-11:00 EST | 16:50-17:00 CEST | 20:20-20:30 IST (10 minutes)

Wrap-Up of Day Two