This course will provide you with intermediate knowledge and skills on the key processes for mobilising resources for a nutrition response. You will learn how to develop a budget for a collective nutrition response, how to manage fund allocations within the cluster, how to track resources, support partners and engage with donors.
Learning objectives
After completing this course you should be able to:
- List the key steps in budgeting for a collective nutrition response
- Explain the process for allocating Country-Based Pooled Funds
- Describe the support that partners might need to access funding opportunities
- Describe how to use the Financial Tracking Service (FTS) to monitor the progress of funding for a response
- Describe the importance of cultivating donor relationships within a humanitarian context and ways to do this effectively
Audience
This is an intermediary-level course aimed at anyone who is interested in furthering their skills and knowledge in nutrition cluster coordination in humanitarian contexts, and who needs to coordinate and collaborate with the humanitarian architecture on this topic. It is part of the recommended learning path for national nutrition cluster coordinators aiming to progress to senior level roles.Length
It should take you about 126 minutes to complete this self-paced course.
Methodology
This course is composed of a single short self-paced animated module, including various examples and activities.
Structure
This course is composed of five modules:
- • Mapping Existing Nutrition Resources and Budgeting for a Collective Nutrition Response
• Managing a Pooled Fund Allocation Process within the Nutrition Cluster
• Supporting Access to Funding and Building Capacity of Nutrition Partners in Nutrition Resource Mobilisation
• Tracking Cluster Resource Mobilisation
• Nutrition Donor Engagement within a Humanitarian Emergency
Suggested prior learning:
- Mobilising resources for a nutrition response level 1
Suggested further learning:
- Mobilising resources for a nutrition response level 3