This document discusses integrating nutrition into resilience programming. It notes that many countries face high levels of food insecurity and malnutrition, and that resilience efforts cannot succeed without also addressing nutrition. The document calls for making resilience programs more nutrition-sensitive by strengthening nutrition in policies and information systems, and by designing multi-sectoral prevention, preparedness and response efforts based on nutritional vulnerability analyses. Key actions include monitoring nutritional status indicators, integrating nutrition education into programs, and linking social protection to resilience and nutrition frameworks.

1. NUTRITION AS AN INPUT AND
AN OUTCOME OF RESILIENCE
SIDE EVENT:
IFPRI 2020 Conference
The side event is jointly organized by FAO and IFRC.

2. Introduction
Charlotte Dufour, Nutrition officer, FAO

3. Number of disasters, number of people affected and
killed by natural disasters 1975-2011
Source: EM-DAT the OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database

4. All these 22 countries in protracted crisis show high levels of food
insecurity and of malnutrition (SOFI 2010)
Source: FAO, IFPRI and WHO – SOFI 2010

5. These 34 countries account for 90% of the global burden of
malnutrition.
Source: Lancet series 2013

6. Bringing Nutrition and Resilience together
 Resilience and Nutrition on the top of political
agendas and donors strategies:
– Triggered by failure to address and prevent food
and nutrition crises effectively
– Persistence of malnutrition highlights chronic
and structural vulnerabilities beyond emergency
needs
 Resilience cannot be achieved without
addressing malnutrition and vice-versa

7. MAKING RESILIENCE PROGRAMMES
MORE NUTRITION-SENSITIVE
Conceptual and operational linkages
Domitille Kauffmann ,
Nutrition & Resilience advisor - FAO Nutrition Division
Side Event : Nutrition as An Input and an Outcome of Resilience
IFPRI Conference on Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security
Wednesday 15th May 2014 - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

8. Convergence between nutrition
and resilience programming
Effective resilience and nutrition programming both call
upon:
 A systemic approach (multi-sectoral, multi-level and
multi-stakeholder)
 A twin-track approach, linking emergency and
development
 A context-specific approach
 Strong local/country/regional ownership and political
leadership

9. 1/ ENABLE THE
ENVIRONMENT:
Institutional strengthening and
risk and crisis management
governance
2/ WATCH TO
SAFEGUARD:
Information and early
warning systems, situation
analysis
4/ PREPARE & RESPOND
to CRISIS:
Preparedness and response to
crisis
3/ APPLY DISASTER RISK
REDUCTION MEASURES:
Protection, prevention, and,
approaches and good practices
Four
Integrated
Thematic
Pillars

10. Strengthening nutrition in the legislative
and policy environment for resilience
 Use malnutrition data to advocate for more
investments in nutrition and resilience
 Link or integrate food and nutrition security,
and resilience / DRM policy frameworks
 Build stronger linkages between nutrition-
related development policies and coordination
mechanisms, and those related to
humanitarian response

11. Integrating nutrition in information
systems
 Indicators of food consumption such as dietary
diversity effective for early warning
 Consider nutritional indicators (especially
stunting) as potential indicators of the erosion of
people’s resilience in situation analysis and
surveillance.
 Understand the causes of malnutrition by
livelihoods groups to anticipate the likely impacts
of future shocks on vulnerable groups.

12. Making prevention, preparedness and
response more nutrition-sensitive
 Use nutrition indicators to identify and target
nutritionally vulnerable groups
 Design multi-sectoral resilience-building interventions
based on an analysis of the causes of malnutrition by
livelihood groups.
 Make nutrition an explicit objective of resilience-
building programs.
 Monitor progress against a set of indicators, including
individual nutritional status and food consumption
 Ensure resilience programmes meet the nutritional
needs of, and support, both women and men through a
gender-sensitive approach.

13. Features of nutrition-sensitive
resilience-building interventions
 Provide nutrition education, especially for vulnerable
groups
 Promote diversification of food intake and of livelihoods
 Link social protection measures with resilience and
nutrition frameworks to help protect assets from shocks
 Multi-sectoral and integrated progammes that address
key determinants of malnutrition (incl. FS, health, water
& sanitation, education, care practices)
 Multi-stakeholder partnerships to enhance nutritional
impact

14. Looking ahead: challenges
 Scientific evidence on the contribution of
nutrition to resilience programming?
 Integrate nutrition in resilience measurement
and measure the nutritional impact of
resilience programmes
 Capacities for nutrition-based multi-sectoral
planning as part of resilience programming?