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Agroecology in Action: Pathways to Resilient Food Systems

Watch the Recording Note: This event is a 2020 Borlaug Dialogue Side Event. Learn more here. For many vulnerable communities across the globe, the challenges posed by COVID-19 are just one more in a long list of food security threats. Decades of environmental degradation and deforestation, drought, pest invasions, and political unrest have long strained already vulnerable food supplies. Tackling these challenges will require our global community to rethink and reshape food systems in transformative ways - ways that recognize food production as inseparable from the ecosystems upon which they depend. In this context, the potential of agroecology to restore

WASH Online Trainings

WASH Online Trainings PRO-WASH actively curates online trainings to assist the global WASH community. All courses are free of cost unless otherwise specified. If you have additional trainings you think would be useful for the WASH community, please send them to us at prowash@savechildren.org. General WASH Introduction to Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) >> Provider: UNICEF Languages: English In this 30-minute online course learn the purpose and importance of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programs. This course was designed for UNICEF staff and is valuable for any humanitarian and development worker at all levels to learn the basics about WASH

Malawi's First Dietetics Program: Lessons from a Multi-Pronged Approach to Building Human and Institutional Capacity for Nutrition

In the face of the growing double burden of malnutrition in Africa, Malawi became one of a handful of countries in sub-Saharan Africa to develop and implement its own dietetics program, with support from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition and USAID Malawi. The multi-faceted role that registered dietitians play in improving quality of life through multidisciplinary clinical nutrition care, nutrition programming and policy engagement, in communities and hospitals, is recognized globally. Yet, more than 60% of African countries do not have dietetics training programs, consequently leading to a severe shortage of dietitians in health service delivery. Join

El Estado Global de los Programas de Transferencias Monetarias 2020

CaLP publicó la primera edición del Informe Global Sobre el Estado de los Programas de Transferencias Monetarias en febrero 2018. El objetivo de esta segunda edición es proveer un análisis actualizado, neutro y preciso de los programas de transferencias monetarias (PTM) humanitarios, así como sobre los avances en los objetivos colectivos para aumentar la escala y la calidad de los PTM. El informe examina los progresos, cambios y desafíos en el uso de los PTM, en el transcurso de los últimos dos años y medio, en contextos que suelen cambiar rápidamente en el mundo humanitario. El informe incluye percepciones de

COVID-19 & Humanitarian Settings: Exploring the Controversial Issues

The READY Initiative , in collaboration with the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Health at the University of Geneva , and the Center for Humanitarian Health at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health are pleased to announce the relaunch of its COVID-19 & Humanitarian Settings webinar series. Now occurring monthly, these webinars will feature a series of panels examining some of the controversial and under-explored issues affecting the COVID-19 pandemic in humanitarian settings. Each panel will welcome experts from across the sector and