Food Security & Nutrition in Emergencies
The training module prepares development and humanitarian practitioners to address the demands of addressing food and nutrition issues in emergencies. The course covers a wide spectrum of issues relating to food security and nutrition and its linkages with other sectors. It looks at causes of food insecurity, malnutrition, assessments, planning and response. It will provide participants with technical and programming knowledge and information regarding delivering nutritional support services to those affected by humanitarian emergencies in the context of current food security debates and the relation between food security, nutrition, development and poverty. This training will also explain the humanitarian standards of food security, nutrition and food aid, as a universal benchmark that is used to plan programs. The training focuses on comprehensive food security, nutrition and food aid needs assessment and analysis, identification of appropriate interventions for food insecurity and nutrition in emergency and post emergency situations, and help learn designing, planning, implementation and monitoring of these interventions.
