Technical Meeting on Nutrition
Dates: 7th, 8th and 9th October 2014
Venue: Oxford, UK
Funders: OFDA, IA, UNHCR, ACF, Concern Worldwide and World Vision.
Facilitators: The ENN
Background:
The meeting will provide a forum to address specific technical, programming and policy issues relevant to nutrition in emergencies and high burden contexts; share and appraise key research and discuss ongoing challenges. It also aims to build consensus for improved practice, priority research, guidance and policy development. The meeting will provide time and space for individuals and groups to network with other professionals and sectors. It will also facilitate multi-sectoral nutrition connections.
The formation of an interagency steering committee and advisory panel will help guide the agenda development, meeting proceedings and participants profile. We are looking forward to a broad range of professionals attending, who work on both nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive programming from UN agencies, NGOs, academics, donors and government technical staff; allied sectors such as health, agriculture, water, sanitation and hygiene and those working in transition/development programming in high burden contexts.
The ENN will host a 3 day meeting in Oxford, UK, from 7th – 9th October 2014. The aim of the meeting is to facilitate a technical learning and networking meeting on nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive programming in emergencies and high burden contexts; to inform better practice, research priorities and advocacy. The meeting will engage a broad audience that includes NGOs, UN agencies, SUN, GNC, academia, bilateral and multilateral donors, the private sector and government representatives. A wide range of existing online and social media and tools will be used to capture and rapidly share the meeting experiences, discussions and outcomes.
Specific objectives of the meeting are as follows:
a) To give participants the opportunity to present their work, highlight lessons and share experiences from cutting edge/innovative and new areas of research and programming.
b) To give participants the opportunity to identify and discuss critical gaps and unanswered questions in relation to research and programming, with peers from the wider nutrition community and related sectors.
c) To provide participants with the space to discuss how to collectively move forward in certain key technical and programmatic areas and to allow current working/steering groups in the sector to convene and allow formation of new groups, as necessary.
d) To strengthen donor and academic understanding of operational challenges both within the sector and in cross-sectoral work streams.
Meeting governance
The lead organiser is the ENN, supported by a Steering Committee (SC) and an Advisory Group (AG), made up from individuals representing key organisations, institutions and academia.
Outcomes:
The meeting will use existing tools and mechanisms, such as En-net and Field Exchange to capture and share experiences and facilitate pre- and post-meeting dialogue. Intended outputs of the meeting include a discussion paper to provide an overview of the key issues identified during the meeting, with recommendations for research and policy directions and actions and a special edition of Field Exchange to document lessons shared.
