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Nutrition, AAP and the Core People-Related Issues:
A project led by HelpAge International and the Global Nutrition Cluster in collaboration with the global FSC
GNC Annual Meeting13th -15th October,
Nairobi, Kenya
Consultations• Global nutrition actors • Cluster partners• Q&A actors• Chad: cluster, UNICEF, partners, donors, government,
programme participants• gFSC, WFP and FAO in Rome
What people wanted
• Guidance on how to put the accountability commitments into practice
• Practical ideas on AAP would look in a nutrition setting if it were being done well
• Ideas for indicators so they could measure their effectiveness
What people want of us…
“If we were told more about the programmes, we would be able to share ideas on how to improve them”
Young mother, nutrition programme participant, Chad
The commitment landscape
The dilemma: • How do diverse cluster partners work together
better on programme quality and accountability when they report against different sets of commitments?
DisabilityHIV & AIDS
Mental Health
Gender
CwC AAP
Protection
FeedbackInformation provision
Two-way communicationTransparencyTe
chno
logy
& in
frast
ruct
ure
Tech
nica
l net
wor
ks &
exp
ertis
e
PSEADignity & respect
Rights based approach
Participation & representationComplaints & response
Access
Avoid doing harmSafe distribution
SGBV
Leadership & governance
Policy & guidance
Working with & through partners
Applied throughout the project cycle
AgeDiversity
Life savinginformation
The people related cross cutting issues: our commitments
IASC Commitments on AAP
The foundation of the framework1. Leadership/governance2. Transparency3. Feedback and complaints4. Participation5. Design, monitoring and evaluation
9 CHS Commitments• The new player in the field • Underpinning NGO partners’ commitments
Communities and people affected by crisis:1. Receive assistance appropriate and relevant to their needs 2. Have access to the humanitarian assistance they need at the right time3. Are not negatively affected and are more prepared, resilient and less at-risk as a result of
humanitarian action4. Know their rights and entitlements, have access to information and participate in decisions that
affect them5. Have access to safe and responsive mechanisms to handle complaints6. Receive coordinated, complementary assistance 7. Can expect delivery of improved assistance as organisations learn from experience and reflection 8. Receive the assistance they require from competent and well-managed staff and volunteers 9. Can expect that the organisations assisting them are managing resources effectively, efficiently
and ethically
Aim
To create a common framework and language for cluster partners that satisfies both setsProposed solution:• The framework throws out the chronological order of
the commitments and instead synthesizes the 2 sets of commitments against each other under “Commitment Categories” that aim to wrangle the complexity:1. Community Engagement Commitments 2. Organizational Policy and Process Commitments
i. Externally focused (quality of the response)ii. Internally focused (quality of organizational functioning)
Category 1: Community Engagement Commitments
• Practical and predictable strategies and actions ensuring rights, dignity, safety, agency and entitlements are respected
• All programming should work towards ensuring that women, men, girls and boys affected by crisis, including older people and those with disabilities, have access to:1. Appropriate, relevant and timely information; 2. Two-way communications channels that facilitate feedback and
complaints;3. Means to participate and transparent representation
Category 2: Organisational Policy and Processes Commitments
Externally focussed on the quality of the response:
2.1 Organisational policy and processes that integrate accountability commitments and ensure the delivery of a quality humanitarian response that:
1. Is appropriate, relevant, effective and timely;2. Strengthens local capacities and avoids negative effects, and;3. Is coordinated and complementary
Category 2: Organisational Policy and Processes Commitments
Internally focussed on the quality of organisational functioning:
2.2 Organisational policy and processes that ensure the organisations responding:
1. Treat staff fairly and equitably and support them to do their job effectively;
2. Manage and use resources responsibly, and;3. Continuously learn and improve
Example nutrition specific contributions
• Creative use of unavoidable waiting times
• Consider the impact on people of attending programmes
• Debate and dialogue keeps nutrition interventions current
• Nutrition actors, including the cluster, balance nutrition science with a human rights approach
Tools to go with the framework
• Guidance for cluster coordinators on activities they could undertake in their role in mainstreaming AAP
• Compendium of AAP indicators• An adapted version of the gFSC “Checklist to mainstream
people centric issues in the humanitarian programme cycle”:– “Guidance for Mainstreaming AAP and Core People-Related Issues in
the Humanitarian Programme Cycle through the Cluster System ”