COVID Adaptations in the Management of Child Wasting

The COVID-19 pandemic presents unprecedented challenges to nutrition and health service continuity across the globe, placing millions more children at risk of wasting and death. To manage risks and continue to provide life-saving treatment, governments and organizations have adopted and scaled up a range of adaptations to community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) programs. This webinar will present preliminary findings from Action Against Hunger USA's ongoing project to document, map, and analyze these adaptations. A panel of nutrition stakeholders will share their experiences in managing these adaptations at multiple levels. Finally, the floor will be opened to participants to ask questions, offer observations from their own experiences, and identify areas for further exploration. While the webinar focuses on nutrition programming, specifically, this conversation also feeds into larger conversations around operations, flexibility, and innovation across contexts.