The Food Security and Nutrition Network resource library features practical implementation-focused guides, tools, and training materials in a number of relevant program areas. You can browse the library by topic or view the newest, highest rated, most downloaded or FSN Network recommended materials. If you know what you are looking for you can also search by author or title.
We welcome submissions of new resources from the community. Please remember we are looking for high-quality, published materials, that offer guidance for improved food security and nutrition implementation.
This tool is an introductory resource for staff of development and humanitarian organizations working with people whose lives and rights are threatened by disasters and climate change. It is aimed at program management, advisory and technical staff of development and humanitarian organizations, and seeks to strengthen staff understanding of the basic approaches and principles that can be applied to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation initiatives. It also provides practical guidance on how to integrate disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into the program cycle, different sectors and a range of contexts. This guide includes examples from practitioners’ experiences that illustrate good practice and learning, and suggests tools and resources that practitioners find useful.
The guide is a product of the Emergency Capacity Building (ECB) Project agencies, which include CARE International, Catholic Relief Services, Mercy Corps, Oxfam, Save the Children and World Vision International.
This short document (10 pages) provides examples of activities involving men, women, boys, and girls to increase preparedness for flooding and other natural disasters. Although set in Vietnam, the example and activities implemented could take place in other contexts as well. One key focus of the project is to increase gender equality, empowering women as well as men.
This working paper is a methodological contribution to the emerging debate on monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in the context of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. Effectively managing disaster risk is critical for adapting to the impacts of climate change, however disasters risk reduction M&E practice may be limited in capturing progress towards adaptation.
This ALNAP Lessons Paper identifies seventeen key lessons for humanitarian agencies responding to droughts, on topics such as: early warning, targeting, working with government, food aid, water interventions and nutrition.
The Toolkit for Practitioners provides the nuts and bolts for mainstreaming gender sensitive interventions in disaster management in all phases of disaster management, including preparedness, mitigation, response, rehabilitation and recovery phases. In this Toolkit, Chaman Pincha has integrated the concepts and strategies related to gender, analysed disaster risk and vulnerability profiles, interfaced the logic with field insights garnered through interactions with disaster-affected communities and development practitioners and compiled the tools and techniques for mainstreaming gender in all phases of disaster management.
This guide was developed to help CRS India, its partners, and CRS and other NGOs worldwide, facilitate a community-led disaster preparedness process. CBDP field practitioners repeatedly stated the need for a ready reference document detailing how to facilitate CBDP programs. This guide is designed to complement the existing handbooks on CBDP, Community Based Disaster Risk Management and Disaster Risk Reduction.
This guide is developed to assist field workers and communities to analyse people’s vulnerability, draw action plans, mobilise resources and enact appropriate policies, laws and strategies to reduce their vulnerability to disaster. There are few guidelines developed by other organisations on how communities can carry out vulnerability analysis.
This training pack has been written for Oxfam programme staff, partner organizations, and other agencies working in areas associated with DRR. Its purpose is to provide a ‘gender lens’ through which they can plan, implement, and evaluate their work. The focus here is on the operational aspects of projects and programmes, and to a lesser extent on influencing broader institutional policies and practices through policy and advocacy work. The pack aims to develop participants’ skills and competencies in addressing gender issues throughout the project cycle, from assessment, analysis, and planning through to implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
USAID's Office of Food for Peace (FFP) and FANTA have published FFP Occasional Paper 5, Trigger Indicators and Early Warning and Response Systems in Multi-Year Title II Assistance Programs to allow Cooperating Sponsors (CSs) a greater degree of flexibility in responding to emerging crises and shocks in their areas of operation without the risk of potentially undermining advances being achieved by development interventions. Occasional Paper 5 is designed to briefly review CSs' experiences with operationalizing trigger indicators (TIs) and early warning and response (EWR) systems to-date, outline the key characteristics of EWR systems and TIs within the Title II-supported multi-year assistance program (MYAP) context, and provide suggestions on how to best operationalize FFP guidance on incorporating EWR mechanisms, including TIs, into MYAPs.
This tool is an introductory resource for staff of development and humanitarian organizations working with people whose lives and rights are threatened by disasters and climate change. It is aimed at program management, advisory and technical staff of development and humanitarian organizations, and seeks to strengthen staff understanding of the basic approaches and principles that can be applied to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation initiatives. It also provides practical guidance on how to integrate disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into the program cycle, different sectors and a range of contexts. This guide includes examples from practitioners’ experiences that illustrate good practice and learning, and suggests tools and resources that practitioners find useful.
The guide is a product of the Emergency Capacity Building (ECB) Project agencies, which include CARE International, Catholic Relief Services, Mercy Corps, Oxfam, Save the Children and World Vision International.
This guide is developed to assist field workers and communities to analyse people’s vulnerability, draw action plans, mobilise resources and enact appropriate policies, laws and strategies to reduce their vulnerability to disaster. There are few guidelines developed by other organisations on how communities can carry out vulnerability analysis.
USAID's Office of Food for Peace (FFP) and FANTA have published FFP Occasional Paper 5, Trigger Indicators and Early Warning and Response Systems in Multi-Year Title II Assistance Programs to allow Cooperating Sponsors (CSs) a greater degree of flexibility in responding to emerging crises and shocks in their areas of operation without the risk of potentially undermining advances being achieved by development interventions. Occasional Paper 5 is designed to briefly review CSs' experiences with operationalizing trigger indicators (TIs) and early warning and response (EWR) systems to-date, outline the key characteristics of EWR systems and TIs within the Title II-supported multi-year assistance program (MYAP) context, and provide suggestions on how to best operationalize FFP guidance on incorporating EWR mechanisms, including TIs, into MYAPs.
This tool is an introductory resource for staff of development and humanitarian organizations working with people whose lives and rights are threatened by disasters and climate change. It is aimed at program management, advisory and technical staff of development and humanitarian organizations, and seeks to strengthen staff understanding of the basic approaches and principles that can be applied to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation initiatives. It also provides practical guidance on how to integrate disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into the program cycle, different sectors and a range of contexts. This guide includes examples from practitioners’ experiences that illustrate good practice and learning, and suggests tools and resources that practitioners find useful.
The guide is a product of the Emergency Capacity Building (ECB) Project agencies, which include CARE International, Catholic Relief Services, Mercy Corps, Oxfam, Save the Children and World Vision International.
This training pack has been written for Oxfam programme staff, partner organizations, and other agencies working in areas associated with DRR. Its purpose is to provide a ‘gender lens’ through which they can plan, implement, and evaluate their work. The focus here is on the operational aspects of projects and programmes, and to a lesser extent on influencing broader institutional policies and practices through policy and advocacy work. The pack aims to develop participants’ skills and competencies in addressing gender issues throughout the project cycle, from assessment, analysis, and planning through to implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
The Toolkit for Practitioners provides the nuts and bolts for mainstreaming gender sensitive interventions in disaster management in all phases of disaster management, including preparedness, mitigation, response, rehabilitation and recovery phases. In this Toolkit, Chaman Pincha has integrated the concepts and strategies related to gender, analysed disaster risk and vulnerability profiles, interfaced the logic with field insights garnered through interactions with disaster-affected communities and development practitioners and compiled the tools and techniques for mainstreaming gender in all phases of disaster management.
This guide was developed to help CRS India, its partners, and CRS and other NGOs worldwide, facilitate a community-led disaster preparedness process. CBDP field practitioners repeatedly stated the need for a ready reference document detailing how to facilitate CBDP programs. This guide is designed to complement the existing handbooks on CBDP, Community Based Disaster Risk Management and Disaster Risk Reduction.
This ALNAP Lessons Paper identifies seventeen key lessons for humanitarian agencies responding to droughts, on topics such as: early warning, targeting, working with government, food aid, water interventions and nutrition.
This working paper is a methodological contribution to the emerging debate on monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in the context of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. Effectively managing disaster risk is critical for adapting to the impacts of climate change, however disasters risk reduction M&E practice may be limited in capturing progress towards adaptation.
This short document (10 pages) provides examples of activities involving men, women, boys, and girls to increase preparedness for flooding and other natural disasters. Although set in Vietnam, the example and activities implemented could take place in other contexts as well. One key focus of the project is to increase gender equality, empowering women as well as men.
This guide was developed to help CRS India, its partners, and CRS and other NGOs worldwide, facilitate a community-led disaster preparedness process. CBDP field practitioners repeatedly stated the need for a ready reference document detailing how to facilitate CBDP programs. This guide is designed to complement the existing handbooks on CBDP, Community Based Disaster Risk Management and Disaster Risk Reduction.
This short document (10 pages) provides examples of activities involving men, women, boys, and girls to increase preparedness for flooding and other natural disasters. Although set in Vietnam, the example and activities implemented could take place in other contexts as well. One key focus of the project is to increase gender equality, empowering women as well as men.
This training pack has been written for Oxfam programme staff, partner organizations, and other agencies working in areas associated with DRR. Its purpose is to provide a ‘gender lens’ through which they can plan, implement, and evaluate their work. The focus here is on the operational aspects of projects and programmes, and to a lesser extent on influencing broader institutional policies and practices through policy and advocacy work. The pack aims to develop participants’ skills and competencies in addressing gender issues throughout the project cycle, from assessment, analysis, and planning through to implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
The Toolkit for Practitioners provides the nuts and bolts for mainstreaming gender sensitive interventions in disaster management in all phases of disaster management, including preparedness, mitigation, response, rehabilitation and recovery phases. In this Toolkit, Chaman Pincha has integrated the concepts and strategies related to gender, analysed disaster risk and vulnerability profiles, interfaced the logic with field insights garnered through interactions with disaster-affected communities and development practitioners and compiled the tools and techniques for mainstreaming gender in all phases of disaster management.
This ALNAP Lessons Paper identifies seventeen key lessons for humanitarian agencies responding to droughts, on topics such as: early warning, targeting, working with government, food aid, water interventions and nutrition.
This working paper is a methodological contribution to the emerging debate on monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in the context of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. Effectively managing disaster risk is critical for adapting to the impacts of climate change, however disasters risk reduction M&E practice may be limited in capturing progress towards adaptation.
This guide is developed to assist field workers and communities to analyse people’s vulnerability, draw action plans, mobilise resources and enact appropriate policies, laws and strategies to reduce their vulnerability to disaster. There are few guidelines developed by other organisations on how communities can carry out vulnerability analysis.
This tool is an introductory resource for staff of development and humanitarian organizations working with people whose lives and rights are threatened by disasters and climate change. It is aimed at program management, advisory and technical staff of development and humanitarian organizations, and seeks to strengthen staff understanding of the basic approaches and principles that can be applied to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation initiatives. It also provides practical guidance on how to integrate disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into the program cycle, different sectors and a range of contexts. This guide includes examples from practitioners’ experiences that illustrate good practice and learning, and suggests tools and resources that practitioners find useful.
The guide is a product of the Emergency Capacity Building (ECB) Project agencies, which include CARE International, Catholic Relief Services, Mercy Corps, Oxfam, Save the Children and World Vision International.
USAID's Office of Food for Peace (FFP) and FANTA have published FFP Occasional Paper 5, Trigger Indicators and Early Warning and Response Systems in Multi-Year Title II Assistance Programs to allow Cooperating Sponsors (CSs) a greater degree of flexibility in responding to emerging crises and shocks in their areas of operation without the risk of potentially undermining advances being achieved by development interventions. Occasional Paper 5 is designed to briefly review CSs' experiences with operationalizing trigger indicators (TIs) and early warning and response (EWR) systems to-date, outline the key characteristics of EWR systems and TIs within the Title II-supported multi-year assistance program (MYAP) context, and provide suggestions on how to best operationalize FFP guidance on incorporating EWR mechanisms, including TIs, into MYAPs.
Collaborate with your peers to share knowledge, learn from program experience, and develop and adapt tools and materials for improved program implementation. If interested, contact info.fsn.network@gmail.com.
Learn More About TOPS
The FSN Network is managed by the USAID/Food for Peace-funded Technical and Operational Performance Support (TOPS) Program. Learn more:
