Progress Towards Locally Owned and Locally Led Action on Nutrition in Humanitarian Crises: Vision and Action on Localisation

This hybrid event will consist of a panel discussion, facilitated by Canada, exploring progress toward locally owned and led nutrition responses in humanitarian settings, highlighting the achievements of the Global Nutrition Cluster (GNC) and partners in advancing localisation. The session will present GNC’s localisation vision and Roadmap, its linkages with the Humanitarian Reset, and the implications for Local and National Actors (LNAs) in coordination, policy and programming implementation, drawing from real-world experiences in crisis contexts.

The event will consist of brief presentations and a facilitated question and answer session. The panel will consist of the following: GNC localisation vision, roadmap, and linkages to Humanitarian Reset – Denis Kioko (Localisation Specialist, UNICEF), virtual, Perspectives of local/national authority on nutrition cluster leadership – country representative (TBD), virtual, Experiences of local/national NGO on technical support provided through GNC – country representative (TBD), virtual and Lessons learned in supporting LNAs for nutrition policy development across the humanitarian-development nexus – Laura Rowe (Technical Director, Large Scale Food Fortification, Nutrition International), virtual