COVID Adaptations in the Management of Child Wasting: Reflections and Ways Forward

CORE Group Nutrition Working Group

DATE
March 29, 2021
TIME
9:00 am - 10:30 am EDT
Virtual Participation Available

Photo credit: Feed the Children Kenya

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 lifesaving 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.

Presenter

·     Maria Wrabel, CMAM Adaptations Project Officer, Action Against Hunger USA

Panelists

·     Dr. Robert Ackatia-Armah, Head – Nutrition | Food Systems | Gender and Protection, United Nations World Food Programme Uganda

·     Katie Morris, MERL Advisor, Crisis Settings, Momentum Integrated Health Resilience, CARE

·     Jemimah Khamadi Wekhomba, Nutrition Coordinator, Action Against Hunger USA, Kenya

Moderators

·     Heather Stobaugh, Senior Research and Learning Specialist, Action Against Hunger USA

·     Shelley Walton, Co-Chair, CORE Group Nutrition Working Group

For more information contact: Nutrition Working Group Co-Chair, Shelley Walton

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