This course will provide you with intermediate knowledge and skills on key cluster processes, to effectively lead the cluster to work towards a common, strategic goal. You will determine how to develop a nutrition cluster response plan, how to establish a strategic advisory group and technical working groups, how to address operational challenges and how to integrate COVID-19 and GBV into the nutrition response.
Learning objectives
After completing this course you should be able to:- Describe how to develop a nutrition cluster response plan in collaboration with nutrition cluster partners,
- Describe the key characteristics of a nutrition cluster SAG-
- Describe the key characteristics of a technical working group
- Describe how to facilitate the discussion of operational challenges within the nutrition cluster and develop collective solutions with nutrition partners
- Describe the impact of pandemics such as COVID-19 on malnutrition and nutrition programme implementation,
- Identify GBV risks and mitigation measures within nutrition interventions
- Appreciate main goals of the ERP approach, understand expected results and outputs of ERP planning
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 245 minutes to complete this self-paced course.
Methodology
This course is composed of short self-paced animated modules, including various examples and activities.
Structure
This course is composed of eight sections:
- The Development of a Humanitarian Response Plan
- Developing a Nutrition Cluster Response Plan
- Establishing a Nutrition Cluster Strategic Advisory Group
- Establishing Nutrition Cluster Technical Working Groups
- Addressing Operational Challenges within the Nutrition Cluster
- Nutrition Response Planning and Delivery in the Context of COVID-19 and other Pandemics
- Mitigating the Risk of GBV in a Nutrition Response
- Introduction to Emergency Response Preparedness (ERP)
Suggested prior learning:
- Providing influential and strategic leadership for a nutrition response level 1
Suggested further learning:
- Providing influential and strategic leadership for a nutrition response level 3