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Your source for the latest in food security and nutrition September 5, 2018 | Volume 8, Issue 30
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There's Still Time! RegistrationCloses September 11 Event Recap: The TOPSProgram and USAID's Office ofFood for Peace RecentlyConvened Partners for M&E USAID's Office of Food forPeace Photo ContestFeatured ResourceJob PostingsFunding & Other OpportunitiesUpcoming EventsNew Reports, Guides & ToolsRecent Articles
PHOTO OF THE WEEK Submitted by The TOPS Program [L-R] Rose Hemmer-Vitti, Mercy Corps Uganda;Karen Kyampaire, USAID Food Security Specialist;Jon Prettyman, Mercy Corps HQ; and MaraMordini, FFP M&E Specialist, do group work whileparticipating in a multi-day M&E workshop hostedby The TOPS Program and USAID's Office of Foodfor Peace. Learn more below! Submit photos or videos for future newsletters.
DID YOU KNOW... GENNOVATE is a cross-CGIAR ResearchProgram and a global comparative researchinitiative which addresses the question ofhow gender norms and agency influencemen, women, and youth to adopt innovationin agriculture and natural resourcemanagement.
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There's Still Time! Registration Closes September 11 The 2018 TOPS/FSN Network Asia Regional Knowledge Sharing Meeting: Food Security Resilience at theIntersection of Development and Emergency brings together development and emergency implementers,academics and donors to share food security innovations, emerging topics, promising practices and lessonslearned. The three-day Knowledge Sharing Meeting gives participants the opportunity to engage in interactive sessions togain increased awareness of common and unique challenges faced by development and emergencyimplementers in Asia; explore synergies; and identify ways in which we can work together. Just Announced! Our keynote speaker will be Jerry Bisson, Mission Director, USAID/Pakistan. View a draft agenda here. View a draft schedule of lunchtime table topics here.
If you have any questions about the Knowledge Sharing Meeting, please email [email protected], andlearn more about the meeting here.
Event Recap: The TOPS Program and USAID's Office of Food for PeaceRecently Convened Partners for M&E In early August, The TOPS Program, in collaboration with USAID's Office of Food for Peace (FFP), hosted twosuccessful monitoring and evaluation (M&E) workshops bringing together field M&E practitioners, headquarterM&E advisors, FFP M&E staff, and USAID Food Security Specialists. The 33 participants represented 11organizations, 14 development food security activities (DFSAs), and five FFP priority countries. During the eightdays, participants shared practices and learned new skills related to routine monitoring approaches, participantbased survey (PaBS) sampling; sampling qualitative methods and data in FPP annual monitoring, and theory of
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change annual reviews. Participants greatly valued the "open environment forquestions and participation", the "well-chosen, relevant topics",and the "detailed discussion of all topics". When asked whatthey intended to do differently as a result of the workshop,responsesincluded:
"criticallyanalyze
outcome indicators to determine what should becollected from routine monitoring and from participant-based surveys";"change sampling procedures as well as the analysis""be more attentive and accurate when setting finalevaluation and annual targets";"promote TOC reviews and results orientedmanagement more and more"; and"improve on the tools and methods used for gathering and storing data that can support the review ofTOC".
USAID's Office of Food for Peace Photo ContestDeadline for photo submissions is September 21, 2018.
Help us tell the story of Food for Peace and its accomplishments in reducinghunger, poverty and malnutrition - with photos! We want to showcase theimportant work our partners do around the world to help end hunger andimprove lives, and encourage you to tell your unique story of Food for Peacethrough your photographs. Deadline to submit photos is September 21, 2018 [email protected]. Find more information and submission requirements on USAID's website.
Featured ResourceCompendium of Sanitation Technologies in Emergencies
Appropriate and adequate sanitation solutions are crucial for the protection of human and environmental healthin emergencies. In recent years there has been an increasing number of sanitation innovations, appropriate for avariety of humanitarian contexts and a stronger sector focus on the entire sanitation service chain (from the toiletvia collection and conveyance to the final treatment and safe disposal and/or reuse).
Building on these developments, the Compendium of Sanitation Technologies in Emergencies provides acomprehensive, structured and user-friendly manual and planning guide for sanitation solutions in emergency
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settings. It serves as a systematic overview of existing andemerging sanitation technologies appropriate for use inhumanitarian emergency settings along the entire sanitationservice chain. Access the resource here.
Job PostingsDirector, WASH, TOPS Program based in Washington, DC with Save the ChildrenSurge Response Food for Peace Officer based in Washington, DC with USAID's Office of Food for PeaceCapacity Strengthening and Learning Senior Specialist, WASH, TOPS Program based in Washington,DC with Save the ChildrenSenior Director, Emergency Food Security and Livelihoods based in Washington, DC with Save theChildrenAdvisor, Emergency Nutrition based in Washington, DC with Save the ChildrenTechnical Advisor, Gender & Adolescent Girls based in Washington, DC with Project ConcernInternationalTeam Leader, IGNITE based in Nairobi, Kenya with TanagerNutrition Expert, IGNITE based in Nairobi, Kenya with TanagerGender Expert, IGNITE based in Nairobi, Kenya with TanagerProposal Coordinator based in Washington, DC with IFPRISenior Director, Impact, Learning, Knowledge and Accountability based in Atlanta, Georgia with CARE
Funding & Other OpportunitiesAWEF Practitioner Learning Brief and Women in Market Systems Symposium Call for Case Studies |Deadline: September 14, 2018 The purpose of this AWEF (Arab Women's Enterprise Fund) Practitioner Learning Brief and Women in MarketSystems Symposium is to bring together promising practice and learning emerging from AWEF as well as thewider market system development (MSD) and women's economic empowerment (WEE) practitioner communityand promote constructive dialogue on topics of relevance to the community of practice. The focus of the2018/2019 AWEF Learning Agenda is how to effectively work with market actors to build the business casearound women's access and agency. The SEEP Network and AWEF is looking for practitioners from
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organizations and programs that work to empower women through a market systems approach to submit casestudies on this topic. Learn more here!
Upcoming Events BIFAD Public Meeting: The Feed the Future Learning Agenda: BIFAD; September 12; Washington, DC andOnline The Energy and Agriculture Nexus: Practical Opportunities for Clean Energy's Transformative Potential in AfricanAgriculture; September 13; ACDI/VOCA and Green Powered Technology; Online The Role of Wild-Caught Fisheries in African Development: USAID Offices of Forestry and Biodiversity and Foodfor Peace; September 13; Washington, DC and Online How to Build Effective Cross-Sector Partnerships: Society for Implementation Science in Nutrition; September19; Online Global Youth Economic Opportunities Summit 2018: Making Cents International; September 25-27; Silver Spring,Maryland TOPS/FSN Network Asia Regional Knowledge Sharing Meeting: Food Security Resilience at the Intersection ofDevelopment and Emergency: The TOPS Program; October 2-4; Bangkok, Thailand Resilience Measurement, Evidence and Learning Conference 2018: RMEL CoP; November 13-15; New Orleans,Louisiana, USA Accelerating the End of Hunger and Malnutrition: IFPRI and UN FAO; November 28-30; Bangkok, Thailand More Events
New Reports, Guides & Tools All Hands on Deck: Reducing Stunting through Multisectoral Efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa from The World Bank Using Vignettes to Explore Gender Dimensions of Household Food Security and Nutrition from GENNOVATE Impact of Early Warning Early Action: Protecting pastoralist livelihoods ahead of drought from UN FAO The Cost of Nutritious Food in South Asia from The World Bank Scaling Up Digital Technologies for Extension and Advisory Services Part I: Digital Extension Typology fromFeed the Future Developing Local Extension Capacity Project
Recent Articles Meet the Social Entrepreneur Behind Africa's "Uber For The Farm" from Forbes
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Triple threat of stunting, anemia, and obesity poses looming crisis, health experts warn from Devex Imagination exercises: Using vignettes to explore gender issues related to food security and nutrition from A4NH Promoting Adolescent Nutrition Through Agriculture Programs from Agrilinks Climate change will make hundreds of millions more people nutrient deficient from The Guardian Open data: A major boost for African agriculture from Zilient
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The TOPS Program was made possible by the generous support and contribution of the American peoplethrough the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents of this newsletter do notnecessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government. The FSN Network is being spearheaded by TOPS, a USAID/FFP funded program seeking to build the capacityof FFP grantees and other food security and nutrition implementers. The program is working to improve thequality of implementation through fostering collaboration, innovation, and knowledge sharing around foodsecurity and nutrition best practices. For more information about TOPS please click here.
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