Past support to East Africa
Requester:
UNICEF
Background:
Recurrent drought and conflict plagued the East Africa Region for years. The risks posed by children morbidity and mortality, UNICEF and Save the Children conducted a country-level Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergency (IYCF-E) capacity mapping assessment for South Sudan, Kenya, and Somalia. The results of this capacity mapping assessment helped form a regional IYCF Framework for Action to serve as a guideline for all countries.
The request:
A Tech RRT Advisor was requested to facilitate the validation of the outputs from the IYCF-E capacity mapping and framework for action, highlighting common priority areas in the three countries in East Africa.
You can find out more about IYCF-E on our website or submit any questions or technical queries you may have through our request page.
Key achievements:
- Facilitated validation workshops in Kenya, Somalia South/Central Somalia and South Sudan.
- Developed and shared IYCF-E advocacy messages
- Developed IYCF action framework for each country to serve as a guide for IYCF programming.
Requester:
Save the Children
Background:
Save the Children developed a 2019-2021 Country Strategic Plan (CSP) to support its humanitarian and development work in 12 East and Southern African countries. Given the importance of Community engagement and behavior change to implement the plan, Save the Children conducted a Nutrition Social Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) mapping exercise which identified several capacity gaps. For example, countries did not have an SBCC strategy to guide the implementation of SBCC activities, activities were implemented in an ad hoc manner because of untrained staff, and countries required capacity building in research and M&E.
The request:
Save the Children, being a member of the Global Nutrition Cluster (GNC), sought technical assistance from GNC Technical Alliance to support prioritized country offices (South Sudan and Zimbabwe) in building their in-country SBCC capacities and programming.
You can find out more about SBC on our website or submit any questions or technical queries you may have through our request page.
Key achievements:
- A training report was developed for the training at the regional level and with South Sudan and Zimbabwe teams.
- Developed a draft formative research report on Barrier Analysis.
- Developed a draft SBCC strategy for Nutrition in South Sudan with a roll-out plan, costing indications, and MEAL plan
Resources:
Training in qualitative research methods: barriers analysis
Sudan,Social and Behavior change communication strategy