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

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 presented preliminary findings from Action Against Hunger USA’s ongoing project to document, map, and analyze these adaptations. A panel of nutrition stakeholders shared their experiences in managing these adaptations at multiple levels. Finally, the floor was opened to participants to ask questions, offer observations from their own experiences, and identify areas for further exploration. While the webinar focused on nutrition programming, specifically, this conversation also feeds into larger conversations around operations, flexibility, and innovation across contexts.