The document discusses a side event hosted by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on bringing together nutrition and resilience. It provides examples of IFRC and Red Cross Red Crescent programs that integrate nutrition and resilience-building activities, such as providing livestock and diversifying livelihoods in Mauritania, Namibia, Niger, Kenya, Rwanda, and Ethiopia. The document concludes by highlighting the Zambezi River Basin Initiative, a collaboration between National Societies across borders aimed at reducing vulnerability and building community resilience through an integrated multi-sectoral approach.

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Why is bringing nutrition and resilience
together so critical today?
IFPI 2020 Resilience conference – Side event:
Nutrition: An Input and an Outcome of Resilience
Jill Clements
IFRC country representative, Ethiopia
Wednesday 15th May 2014 - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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IFRC/FAO Resilience
“the ability of individuals, communities,
organizations or countries exposed to disasters,
crises and underlying vulnerabilities to anticipate,
reduce the impact of, cope with, and recover
from the effects of adversity without
compromising their long term prospects”.

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Resilience and Nutrition in RCRC
Programming
 RCRC investment in disaster risk reduction
and resilience steadily increasing (CHF 122M
in 2013 reaching over 25.6M people)
 Key principles include: people first, local
ownership, long term perspective,
comprehensive approach that acknowledges
interdependencies, recognise limits, embrace
partnerships.
 Learning and scaling up

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IFRC/FAO Red Cross Red Crescent examples
 Mauritania
 Namibia
 Niger
 Kenya
 Rwanda
 Ethiopia

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IFRC/FAO Twin-track approach in Mauritania
 Relief intervention to
cover immediate
needs
 Working with
communities to help
them become more
resilient to the next
drought

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Integrated food security interventions in
Namibia
Integrated programme
to tackle:
 food availability,
 food access,
 malnutrition, and
 poverty.

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Tackling malnutrition
in Niger
 Nutrition-specific
programmes targeting
malnourished children
 Integrated within the
government healthcare
centres
 Includes community
awareness raising and
nutritional education

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IFRC/FAO Strengthening hunger resilience in Kenya
 improve and diversify
agricultural production and
seasonal income options,
 improve access to clean
water, sanitation facilities
and awareness on hygiene
measures.
 build capacity of target
groups to support and
sustain both livelihood,
water and sanitation
components

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Livestock rotation in
Rwanda
The project provide herds of cattle,
pigs, goats, rabbits and other
livestock to targeted communities.
 Livelihoods sustainably
strengthened
 Manure help fertilize land
 Household able to see excess
farm products
 Milk improve nutritional status

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IFRC/FAO Integrated Food Security in Ethiopia
Long term initiative started in Tigray
and now expanding to Somali
region includes the integration of:
 livelihood diversification through
micro loans
 health/water and sanitation
(community and school levels)
 disaster risk reduction
(Resilience Committees and
EWEA)

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IFRC/FAO Resilience: nutrition and more
Zambezi River Basin Initiative:
 Collaborating National Societies across borders
 Reducing vulnerability
 Building community resilience
 Integrated and multi-sectoral approach

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Thank you!
For further information:
Jill Clements
Country Representative, IFRC ETHIOPIA
jill.clements@ifrc.org