CAPACITY BUILDING PLAN: HUMANITARIAN FOOD SECURITY 2009/5/14th
Background:
This document outlines training modules that support CARE’s Humanitarian Food Security Strategy. It is therefore specifically designed to support staff from:
- Focus Country Offices (as identified in the Strategy),
- CERT members with a food security specialization and
- Emergency responses globally that are implementing a food security response.
Financial support for staff to attend the training modules outlined in this plan will therefore be targeted at this audience. However, since a number of the course are available for free or at low cost this plan may also be a useful guide for staff in other Country Offices and RMU’s as well as CARE Member staff that support food security projects.
This document is divided into 5 sections. The first section covers topics that provide a general introduction while the next 4 sections cover specialized training that will not be necessary or suitable for all staff. The 4 specialist topics correspond with the core capacities identified in the Humanitarian Food Security Strategy and it is assumed that in the majority of cases a person would only specialize in analysis and one other specialist capacity.
1. Foundation/Essentials – Core training modules that provide an introduction to the humanitarian food security sector and CARE’s Humanitarian Food Security Strategy. These modules are therefore suitable for people that need an over-view of the sector (e.g. senior managers that over-see a humanitarian food security response), but are also compulsory for all CERT members with a food security specialization.
2. Analysis – Foundational training for all specialists that covers the key situation and response analysis tools
3. Markets & Livelihoods - Specialist training modules for the analysis of livelihoods and markets.
4. Food Aid - Specialist training modules for the programming and management of food aid
5. Nutrition & Public Health - Specialist training modules for monitoring nutritional status, analyzing the causes of malnutrition and address malnutrition through supplementary and therapeutic feeding[1].
This is a working document that outlines available training modules. This document will therefore be updated as new training modules become available.
1. Foundation/Essentials Core training modules that provide an introduction to the humanitarian food security sector and CARE’s Humanitarian Food Security Strategy. These modules are therefore suitable for people that need an over-view of the sector (e.g. senior managers that over-see a humanitarian food security response), but are also compulsory for all CERT members with a food security specialization.
Topic / Rationale / Training Provider / Availability / CostIntroduction to the Agenda for Action, and Humanitarian Food Security component / Overview – introduction to CARE’s approach to emergency food security. / Documents available on CARE’s emergency food security wiki: http://emergency.care2share.wikispaces.net/food+security / On-line / n/a
Gender Equality and GBV Programming in Humanitarian Action Workshop Series / Access to food in a food insecure environment is a powerful tool, it is critical that issues of gender and protection are taken seriously in all CARE’s emergency food security responses. / Gender Cluster
http://www.humanitarianreform.org/humanitarianreform/Default.aspx?tabid=454
- - For course info email Julie Montgomery ( ) / e-learning module: July 2009 / Free
Nutritional Status Assessment & Analysis / Nutrition is the key indicator of impact, and often a vital trigger for responses. / FAO/EC
http://www.foodsec.org/DL/dlintro_en.asp / On-line / On-demand / Free
2. Analysis Foundational training for all specialists that covers the key situation and response analysis tools – apart from the residential M&E course which is a specialist training and therefore not required for all CERT members.
Topic / Rationale / Training Provider / Availability / CostFood Security Information Systems / General over-view / FAO/EC
http://www.foodsec.org/DL/dlintro_en.asp / On-line / On-demand / Free
Sphere Standards for Food Security Analysis / Sphere Standards provide the ‘industry’ bench mark. / Sphere: http://www.sphereproject.org/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,18/Itemid,203/ / On-line / On-demand / Free
Integrated Food Security Phase Classification / Collaborative process & technical tool for situation analysis that is comparable across time & place. / User guide available at www.ipcinfo.org / On-line / On-demand / Free
3. Markets &Livelihoods
Specialist training modules for the analysis of livelihoods and markets.
Topic / Rationale / Training Provider / Availability / Cost / PriorityCoping Strategies Index (CSI); / great tool for emergencies, quick, simple, not a lagging indicatorand measures outcomes. Supports the IPC and complements nutritional surveys very well to different food security drivers of malnutrition. / 1. CSI manuals (v.2) is available on CARE’s emergency food security wiki: http://emergency.care2share.wikispaces.net/food+security / On-line / On-demand / High / Available
Cash programming / Key and growing intervention method (e.g. WFP strategic direction) that CARE has little institutional support for. / Cash Learning Partnership (Oxfam GB, Save UK and UK Red Cross) regional trainings. / Regional Training Workshops / Free Training, but transportation and accommodation CARE must cover / Available
-- For course registration and info contact Elizabeth Chebet (), cc Zehra Rizvi () / Nairobi, Kenya. April 27th-29th, 2009
Emergency Market Mapping & Analysis (EMMA) / Quick & simple tool to inform response analysis re: cash/vouchers & local/regional purchase / IRC – contact miles murray for further details: / June 15th – 19th 2009 / Washington DC / Free
August 10th – 14th 2009 / London, UK
Sphere Standards for Food Security / Sphere Standards provide the ‘industry’ bench mark. / Sphere
http://www.sphereproject.org/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,18/Itemid,203/ / On-line / Free / Available
On-demand
4. Food aid:
Specialist training modules for the programming and management of food aid
Topic / Rationale / Training Provider / Availability / CostSphere Standards for Food Aid / Sphere Standards provide the ‘industry’ bench mark. / Sphere
http://www.sphereproject.org/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,18/Itemid,203/ / On-line / On-demand / Free
5. Nutrition:Specialist training modules for monitoring nutritional status, analyzing the causes of malnutrition and address malnutrition through supplementary and therapeutic feeding[2].
Topic / Rationale / Training Provider / Availability / CostM&E to improve impact of food and nutritional security / In-depth course / Wageningen University
http://www.cdic.wur.nl/UK/newsagenda/agenda/Food_and_nutrition_security.htm / 3 week Course: May/June every year / 2,800 Euro
Sphere Standards for Nutrition / Sphere Standards provide the ‘industry’ bench mark. / Sphere
http://www.sphereproject.org/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,18/Itemid,203/ / On-line / On-demand / Free
Key concepts in
food and nutrition security[3] / intended to give a basic introduction to nutrition in emergenciesfor generalist food security programmers / Wageningen University
http://www.cdic.wur.nl/UK/newsagenda/agenda/Food_and_nutrition_security.htm / On-line / On-demand / 550 Euro
Harmonized Emergency Nutrition Training Package / Emergency nutrition - Each module comprises four sections: i) briefing paper for senior decision makers; ii) technical notes for practitioners; iii) trainers' guide; and iv) reference material/sources. / Nutrition Cluster & NutritionWorks http://www.humanitarianreform.org/Default.aspx?tabid=488 / On-line / on-demand / Free
Nutrition in Emergencies / intensive training introduces current best practice within this rapidly evolving sector and provides an overview of some of the issues surrounding nutrition programming in humanitarian emergencies. Topics studied include a review of the different types of malnutrition, their direct and underlying causes, how malnutrition is measured, and effective nutrition interventions / Centre for Public Health Nutrition, University of Westminster
www.wmin.ac.uk/sih/page-1104 / 7th-11th September 2009 in London / UKL 650
[1] n.b. the Humanitarian Food Security Strategy recommends that CARE only undertakes therapeutic feeding interventions with external technical support and in situations where partners that specialize in therapeutic feeding are not able to intervene themselves
[2] n.b. the Humanitarian Food Security Strategy recommends that CARE only undertakes therapeutic feeding interventions with external technical support and in situations where partners that specialize in therapeutic feeding are not able to intervene themselves
[3] http://www.cdic.wur.nl/UK/newsagenda/agenda/Food_and_nutrition_security.htm