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

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Tech

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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 ”