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Adapting Child Nutrition Screening & Adaptations to Strengthen Communities and Health Systems during COVID-19

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Save the Children
Date:
Time:
5:30am - 6:30am ET
Location:
Online
Organizer:
IDEAL

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This event was a session at the Food Security COVID-19 Learning Event.

COVID-19 lockdowns impacted household access to healthy foods, drastically reduced family incomes, and further reduced already poor access to health and nutrition services. In this environment, where childhood nutrition outcomes were further threatened, projects in Uganda and Kenya responded with a variety of strategies for ensuring family-based nutrition screening and access to health and nutrition services. Attendees learned about their strategies to collaborate with communities, local implementers, and government in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Speakers

Robinah Nannungi, AVSI Foundation, Uganda

Robinah Nannungi is the Food Security and Nutrition Technical Advisor for AVSI Foundation on the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance-funded Graduating to Resilience activity in Uganda. Passionate about improving nutritional outcomes, Robinah can be credited with designing and implementing the Family MUAC approach for Graduating to Resilience in response to COVID-19 regulations, among many other nutrition and food security components of the activity. She studied Agriculture and Rural Innovations at Makerere University, and has a Postgraduate Degree in Project Planning and Management with a Practical Nutrition focus from Uganda Management Institute.

Lominito Lomoru, Save the Children, Kenya

Lominito Mark Lomoru works for Save the Children and is the Health Systems Strengthening Advisor for the USAID/BHA-funded Nawiri Activity, based in Turkana County, Kenya. Lominito is a public health specialist with a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing from Great Lakes University in Kenya and a Master’s degree in Environmental and Public Health from the University of Salford, United Kingdom. He has experience in managing maternal and child health programs in the ASAL (arid and semi-arid lands) region of Northern Kenya. Lominito leads the contextualization of integrated community case management of childhood illnesses (iCCM) job aid for Turkana County.