Building resilience through multi-sectoral action on nutrition – A nutrition-sensitive Graduation

model from Sri Lanka

Sheri Arnott, Senior Policy Advisor, Food Assistance/Food SecurityWorld Vision International

NUTRITION AS AN INPUT AND AN OUTCOME OF RESILIENCE

IFPRI Conference on Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security

May 15-17, 2014,

- Limited livelihood options- Weak access to existing government services,

particularly for most destitute- Poverty traps: poor nutrition, health and education- weak social capital, exclusion

The ‘everyday emergency’ : Poverty and risk for poor households in Sri

Lanka

Graduation Model in Sri Lanka

Lessons for resilience policy

• Child nutrition status as a measure of resilience, at household and national level

• National systems need to be designed to help vulnerable households manage a wider range of extensive risks, often idiosyncratic in nature

• Strengthen and build linkages between informal (community based) and formal services and systems (safety nets, health, economic development, etc)