Resilience in Action: Improving Food Security and Nutrition Outcomes: The Fourth FSN Network Regional Knowledge Sharing Meeting
The FSN Network Knowledge Sharing Meeting in Washington, DC took place November 13-15, 2012. The meeting brought together grantees, donors, and researchers for peer learning, knowledge sharing, and networking around implementation strategies and practices for strengthened resilience and improved food security and nutrition outcomes.
Topics at the event included resilience, community engagement in nutrition, theory of change, promising practices in capacity strengthening of local organizations, agriculture nutrition linkages, fraud prevention in commodity management, USAID’s Collaborating, Learning and Adapting Framework, matching goals and resources in program-level research, motivating community health workers, and many more.
Plenaries
- The Road to Resilience with Nancy Lindborg
- Enhancing Resilience to Food Security Shocks in Africa with Tim Frankenberger
Concurrent Sessions
Day 1
- Measuring Resilience
- Paying for Predictions: A Game of Chance to Experience the Value of Forecasts in Climate Based Disaster Risk Reduction
- Reaching the Vulnerable through Market-Based Approaches
- Learning to Use Resilience Wisely
- Triggering Hope: Strengthening Social Resilience
- Multisector Program Integration
Day 2
- Collaborating, Learning and Adapting: USAID’s New Approach to Program Learning and Improvement
- Coordinating Agriculture and Nutrition Activities in Field Programs: Successes and Challenges
- Empowerment in Food Security Programming: A Discussion on Unintended Positive and Negative Gender Impacts
- Supporting HIV-Affected Populations through Linkages Across Economic Strengthening, Livelihoods, and Food Security Providers
- Leveraging Agriculture for Improved Nutrition: Generating Evidence of Impact
- Cost Recovery in Monetization
- Research for Improved Program Performance
- Revisiting Mother-to-Mother Support Groups, Part 1 and 2
- Fraud Prevention in Food Aid Commodity Management, Part 1 and 2
- Strengthening Farmer Seed Management and Storage – Increasing Resilience
- Open House: Resources to Support Quality Implementation: Tools/Guides/Manuals, Online Resource Centers and Virtual Communities
Day 3
- The Global Food Security Information Network (FSIN)
- Empowering Approaches to IYCF Behavior Change Design
- Discussion: Strategies and Tools for Gender Integration
- Exploring Critical Linkages: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene to Enhance Food Security and Nutrition
- HUG Your Baby: Building Parenting/Caregiver Skills for Improved Outcomes
- Capacity Strengthening for Improved Implementation: Using Effect Size to Identify the Most Promising Approaches
- Life in the Village: A Simulation Tool
- Designing for Gender Integration
- Using Motivation 3.0 for Community-Based Workers