FW: [se-food][se-drm] FOR COMMENTS: Revising the Food Security, Nutrition and Food Aid components of Sphere Handbook.
Vik
Dear Colleagues,
1. Please find attached the report of New Delhi Consultation on revision of Food chapter for your information please.
2. One of the recommendations have been on inclusion of Cash transfer programming as a standard in food chapter. Based on the recommendations from India and elsewhere in the field the authors for food chapter have developed a draft document on standard for Cash transfer programming. Please find attached the draft. Kindly mail me your inputs on the same by 13th November. I’ll send the consolidated inputs to Global food team.
3. I’ll request the attention of all the members of Sphere India network to the query posted on UN Solution Exchange by the Sphere Revision global focal points for Food Nutrition, Food Security and Food Aid management. (Please see the email below). Please provide the feedback in response to the query or respond to Nupur or GP.
Please feel free to contact me if you need any further information or clarification
With regards
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From: Susan Thurstans, Paul Turnbull, Walter
Middleton, Devrig Velly [mailto:se-food...@solutionexchange-un.net.in]
Sent: 04 November 2009 12:49
To: 'Food and Nutrition Security Community, Disaster Management
Community'
Subject: [se-food][se-drm] FOR COMMENTS: Revising the Food Security,
Nutrition and Food Aid components of Sphere Handbook.
Moderator’s Note: We are posting the discussion jointly raised by four focal points (FP) for the revision of Sphere Handbook – Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response (http://www.sphereproject.org/): Devrig Velly, (Food security FP, from ACF), Susan Thurstans (Nutrition FP, from Save the Children UK), Paul Turnbull and Walter Middleton (Co-chairs Food Aid FP, respectively from WFP and World Vision).
Members would recall having provided inputs for “Revising the Food Security Component of the Sphere Handbook” (http://www.solutionexchange-un.net.in/food/cr/cr-se-food-drm-28070901.pdf (Size: 144 KB) raised by Devrig Velly.
Looking forward to an enriching discussion!
Dear members,
For this final round of consultation we would like to have your feedback on specific questions related to the nutrition component and on common topics shared by the food security, nutrition and food aid components for the Sphere Handbook revision.
This discussion will reinforce the feedback from the initial discussion on food security conducted in July-August and recent consultation meetings conducted in various countries (including Afghanistan, Ethiopia, India, Malawi, and Zambia).
The main nutrition components are comprised of six minimum standards within Chapter 3. We would like to invite members to give feedback to the following questions in relation to these minimum standards.
· What are the indicators/guidance notes that need to be adjusted? Please be specific, suggest actual changes and provide evidence based background knowledge or references to your suggestion
· What are the new standards which should be added, if any? Please be specific, suggest ideas for the standards and accompanying indicators and guidance notes and provide evidence based background knowledge or references to your suggestion
· What information is missing that needs to be considered and reflected in the indicators/guidance notes or annexes?
Moreover, please find below some further crosscutting questions:
· How to improve the analytical capacity? Considering the minimum standards 1 and 2 of Food Security and Nutrition Assessment and Analysis (pages 111-117) and appendices 2 (pages 174-176) and 4 (pages 180-182) in chapter 3, what adjustments need to be made to improve a common assessment, understanding and a better analysis of needs?
· How to better link analysis to action / integrated responses? Referring to the appendix 3 (Food Security responses pages 177-179) what would you suggest to develop this appendix in order to reinforce integrated responses (Food Security, Nutrition and Food Assistance) in emergencies? Do you think a similar appendix is needed for nutrition and food aid interventions?
· Should Sphere (and specifically chapter 3) integrate emergency preparedness? Considering the scope of Sphere (disaster response) how would you suggest the integration of preparedness measures, what tools would be referenced, be specific and suggest indicators/guidance notes
· How to integrate cash-based responses in Sphere? Since the last revision there has been evidence that cash-based responses should play a growing role in humanitarian response to crisis. How should this be addressed in the new Sphere Handbook?
The full text can be found http://www.sphereproject.org/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,17/Itemid,26/lang,english/
Your input will help finalising the first draft of the handbook (expected early 2010).
We thank you in advance for your contributions to this upcoming handbook revision and look forward to hearing from you!
Best regards
Susan Thurstans (Save the Children UK), Paul Turnbull (WFP), Walter Middleton (World Vision), Devrig Velly (ACF)