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Why is bringing nutrition and resilience together so critical today?
IFPI 2020 Resilience conference – Side event: Nutrition: An Input and an Outcome of Resilience
Jill ClementsIFRC country representative, Ethiopia
Wednesday 15th May 2014 - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Side eventIFRC/FAO Resilience
“the ability of individuals, communities, organizations or countries exposed to disasters, crises and underlying vulnerabilities to anticipate, reduce the impact of, cope with, and recover from the effects of adversity without compromising their long term prospects”.
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Resilience and Nutrition in RCRC Programming
RCRC investment in disaster risk reduction and resilience steadily increasing (CHF 122M in 2013 reaching over 25.6M people)
Key principles include: people first, local ownership, long term perspective, comprehensive approach that acknowledges interdependencies, recognise limits, embrace partnerships.
Learning and scaling up
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Side eventIFRC/FAO Red Cross Red Crescent examples
Mauritania Namibia Niger Kenya Rwanda Ethiopia
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Side eventIFRC/FAO Twin-track approach in Mauritania
Relief intervention to cover immediate needs
Working with communities to help them become more resilient to the next drought
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Integrated food security interventions in Namibia
Integrated programme to tackle: food availability, food access, malnutrition, and poverty.
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Tackling malnutritionin Niger
Nutrition-specific programmes targeting malnourished children
Integrated within the government healthcare centres
Includes community awareness raising and nutritional education
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Side eventIFRC/FAO Strengthening hunger resilience in Kenya
improve and diversify agricultural production and seasonal income options,
improve access to clean water, sanitation facilities and awareness on hygiene measures.
build capacity of target groups to support and sustain both livelihood, water and sanitation components
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Livestock rotation in Rwanda
The project provide herds of cattle, pigs, goats, rabbits and other livestock to targeted communities. Livelihoods sustainably
strengthened Manure help fertilize land Household able to see excess
farm products Milk improve nutritional status
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Side eventIFRC/FAO Integrated Food Security in Ethiopia
Long term initiative started in Tigrayand now expanding to Somali region includes the integration of:
livelihood diversification through micro loans
health/water and sanitation (community and school levels)
disaster risk reduction (Resilience Committees and EWEA)
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Side eventIFRC/FAO Resilience: nutrition and more
Zambezi River Basin Initiative: Collaborating National Societies across borders Reducing vulnerability Building community resilience Integrated and multi-sectoral approach
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Thank you!
For further information:
Jill ClementsCountry Representative, IFRC [email protected]
