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Climate-resilient WASH: Aligning Funder and Practitioner Perspectives

Increasing water services resilience to climate change is pushing funders and operators to reconsider delivery, management, and progress indicators. As part of World Water Week, this discussion will showcase efforts by funders, knowledge centers, and practitioners to accelerate and mainstream resilient WASH. Organized as an interactive session on climate resilience and WASH, the discussion aims to stimulate thinking by presenting a shock scenario of how climate change could impact WASH, stress testing our perspectives by pushing us to consider a future where systems could be very different and identify strategies to prepare us for a changing world. Topics to be

AWE Program Close-out: Lessons Learned on Inclusive Development

Join Feed the Future Advancing Women's Empowerment (AEW) for a discussion of why gender and social inclusion matters in food and market systems programming from private sector and development perspectives. Speakers will discuss how they were able to maximize profit, address gender-based violence, and reach development goals through increased social inclusion. The forum will also provide tools, best practices, and field integration examples.

Multi-Use Water Systems: Potential to Address Multiple Community Needs

In this event, PRO-WASH & SCALE brought research partners and practitioners to share perspectives on the factors critical to multi-use water systems (MUS) success, including government frameworks and coordination, community visioning and right-fitting MUS to community needs/priorities, MUS sustainability, and MUS alignment with resource and climate characteristics. Participants heard from two programs that have taken innovative approaches to tackling these factors. The Amalima Loko Resilience Food Security Activity in Zimbabwe will share learning on the use of community visioning for prioritization, design, and maintenance of MUS. The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) will share their work with the African Development

SLAM Meeting: Approaches for Improving Local Engagement in Learning and AM

Join us for the first Strategic Learning & Adaptive Management (SLAM) Meeting on August 17th! The process of adaptive management requires active involvement and collaboration with local stakeholders to effectively address challenges, make informed decisions, and ensure the successful implementation of interventions. Local engagement can be improved through coordination mechanisms and regular meetings that include local stakeholders, collaborative context monitoring and contingency planning, timely communication, and engagement with communities through processes like community visioning and innovative processes for sharing information and learning. Speakers and case study descriptions: Ailish Byrne, Strategic Learning Lead, Nawiri (CRS), Kenya - A Market Stall Approach

Giving Children the Best Start in Life: Resources, Experiences, and Lessons Learned from USAID Advancing Nutrition's Work Integrating Nutrition, Responsive Care, and Early Learning

Children who receive a combination of feeding and care interventions have improved development outcomes. In the global push toward Sustainable Development Goals 2 (zero hunger), 3 (good health and well-being), and 4.2 (early childhood development), momentum is growing for integrating key components of the multi-sectoral Nurturing Care Framework, such as responsive care and early learning (RCEL), with nutrition programming through primary health care and community platforms. Integration will provide a more holistic approach to address children’s needs and may drive caregiver demand for and uptake of primary health care services. USAID Advancing Nutrition piloted an innovative counseling package - the

Southern Africa Community Visioning Learning Summit

About the Event The Southern Africa Community Visioning Learning Summit, held in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe on March 27-29, 2023, brought together 45 participants representing six RFSAs in four countries—Malawi, Madagascar, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe—as well as USAID staff from Washington and Missions in the region. Day 1: Sharing experiences, success, and challenges with community visioning Day 2: Field visit Day 3: Field visit reflections and putting learning into practice Community Visioning Resources Shared by RFSA Participants Community Visioning Tools - Amalima Loko | Zimbabwe Community Action Cycle - Okhokelamo ni Solha | Mozambique CARE Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis Handbook -

Regional Knowledge Sharing Meeting: Greater Horn of Africa | HDP Coherence in Food Crisis Contexts

In May 2023, USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, Kenya and East Africa Mission, and IGAD, in collaboration with IDEAL and RLA, convened the Greater Horn of Africa Resilience Network's stakeholders for a peer-to-peer-to-peer regional knowledge sharing meeting to discuss how to work towards humanitarian-development-peace coherence to address the food crisis. Learn about the meeting, access resources shared during sessions, watch video recordings of plenary panel discussions, and more! https://www.fsnnetwork.org/regional-knowledge-sharing-meeting-horn-africa