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Your source for the latest in food security and nutrition December 2, 2015 | Volume 5, Issue 40
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Contribute to the Newsletter!Register Now for TOPS/FSNNetwork Knowledge SharingMeetingMaking Cash Really Work:Ensuring Effectiveness of Cashbased ProgramsFFP Sustainability and ExitStrategies Study Synthesis ReportFeatured ResourceJob PostingsFunding & Other OpportunitiesUpcoming EventsNew Reports, Guides & ToolsRecent Articles
PHOTO OF THE WEEK Submitted by Save the Children Mothers are reporting healthier children, likeAlidou, above, thanks to the partnership ofACDI/VOCA and Save the Children on theUSAIDfunded Victory Against Malnutrition (ViM)program in Burkina Faso. Alidou’s mother,Aguirata, notes that her son benefited from therations received during her pregnancy, exclusivebreastfeeding until he was six months old, andthe Ready to Use Supplementary Food (RUSF)he receives now that he is just over a year old.
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DID YOU KNOW... Lutheran World Relief has a Gender andResilience Working Group, open toanyone interested. Learn more and join.
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Register Now for TOPS/FSN Network Knowledge Sharing MeetingJanuary 27 28, 2016 Washington, DC
Join together with practitioners, donors and experts to build momentum and address gaps to reach lastingsuccesses in food security.
The following is a list of topics that will likely be covered at the meeting. All topics are subject to change.
Mythbusters: Pushing the envelope on gender "truths" and other debatesGender evidence sessionLocal regional procurementCommodity managementAddressing food security and climate change in agricultural systemsYouth, agriculture and marketsEvaluating Care GroupsConcept TestingMeasuring emergency programsMeasuring poverty with the Progress Out of Poverty IndexLet's debate! Should ag extenionists be nutrition educators?Formative research and EED behaviorsLearning from failureEngaging communitiesSustainability (PCI Sustainability Guide)Theories of change and emergenciesYouthInterim monitoring and resilience
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Making Cash Really Work: Ensuring Effectiveness of Cashbased Programs
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Thursday, December 10, 20159:00 10:15AM EST
Join us for the third session of the Cash Learning Series hosted by CRS and The TOPS Program: "MakingCash Really Work: Ensuring Effectiveness of Cashbased Programs."
Cash is a multipurpose tool that can be used to benefit a household in many different ways. But how do weknow that cash transfers are “working” as intended? How do we know that households are better off? How dowe even know that using a marketbased approach is a “better” form of humanitarian assistance? What shouldwe be measuring and tracking, anyway?
As cash programs, including multipurpose cash grants (MPG), are becoming more prevalent, this session willconsider how we define impact and effectiveness in marketbased and cashbased programs, and what we stillneed to figure out.
Learn more and register.
FFP Sustainability and Exit Strategies Study Synthesis ReportFFP commissioned a new report with the objective of determining what factors enhanced the likelihood ofsustained project benefits, in order to improve our guidance for future food assistance development projects.The report’s findings and resulting sustainability conceptual framework are relevant not only to FFP but to otherdevelopment actors as we collectively work to end hunger and extreme poverty—aspirations at the heart of thejustlaunched Sustainable Development Goals and central to both USAID’s mandate and the U.S.Government’s Feed the Future global hunger and food security initiative. Learn more and download the report.
Featured ResourceSmall Grants, Big Impact: A Retrospective of the TOPS Small Grants Program 20102015
The Small Grants Program provided an opportunity for TOPS to facilitate the workof food security program implementing partners in developing creative andinnovative tools, materials, and promising practices. After more than four yearsimplementing the program, TOPS wanted to showcase the impact the programhas had in the development community and document our experiences andlessons learned in running the program.
The descriptions of the small grants contained in this booklet are based on textcollected from granteesubmitted reports, small grant outputs, and TOPStechnical staff. TOPS is grateful for the input of so many into these descriptionsand, though we are unable to cite every source, we acknowledge the hard workthat went into carrying out these small grants projects.
View the report in the Resource Library at fsnnetwork.org.
Job PostingsChief of Party, Strengthening Agriculture Production and Market Systems (SAPMS) based inBangladesh with Land O'Lakes International Development
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Market Systems Development Consultants based anywhere with Land O'Lakes InternationalDevelopmentSenior Gender Specialist based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia with ACDI/VOCAChief of Party DFAP Niger based in Niamey, Niger with Mercy CorpsProject Manager, Saving Lives through the Prevention and Treatment of Acute Malnutrition based in Guinea with HKISenior Technical Advisor for Resilience and Food Security based in Baltimore, MD with Lutheran WorldReliefResearch Fellow in Global Health Nutrition based in London with London School of Hygiene andTropical MedicineProgram Director, Gender and Resilience based in WDC with Mercy CorpsDirector of Programs CAR based in Central African Republic with Mercy CorpsNutrition Program Manager based in South Sudan with IMCSchool Feeding Technical Advisor II, Food for Education based in Sierra Leone with CRSQuality of Education Program Manager, Food for Education based in Sierra Leone with CRSNutritionAgriculture SBCC Technical Advisor based in Arlington, VA with SPRINGSenior Specialist, Emergency Food Security & Livelihoods MEAL based in WDC with Save the ChildrenSenior Specialist, Emergency Food Security & Livelihoods based in WDC with Save the Children
Funding & Other Opportunities Apply for a grant through the TOPS Small Grants Program. The program supports the food security andnutrition community to design, test, and share promising practices, tools, guidance, and skills through ProgramImprovement Awards (funded up to $100,000) and Micro Grant Awards (funded up to $50,000). Apply to participate in the Global Food Security Symposium 2016 Next Generation Delegation due December 4, 2015. The Chicago Council on Global Affairs convenes the Symposium annually, and theDelegation program provides an opportunity for promising students to engage in symposium discussions andto interact with policy, civil society, and business leaders working on agriculture, food, and nutrition issues. Submit a project proposal to the Trellis Fund due January 18, 2016. Organizations in Feed the Futurecountries are invited to submit a project proposal that addresses a horticultural problem facing local farmers,which would also include the involvement of a graduate student consultant. The maximum funding available foreach project is $2,000, with funding available for 15 projects. Submit a Round 2 application for IMMANA Fellowships due February 1, 2015. Six postdoctoral fellows willbe funded over a 12month period to conduct research related to methods and metrics in agriculture fornutrition.
Upcoming Events Integrating Family Planning with Nutrition and Food Security: CORE Group; December 8, 2015; Online Making Cash Really Work: Ensuring Effectiveness of Cashbased Programs: TOPS, CRS; December 10, 2015;Online Urban Hunger: Secondary Cities and New Frontiers in Fighting Food Insecurity and Malnutrition: Center forStrategic and International Studies; December 10, 2015; WDC
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Building Soil Health for Smallholder Resilience: Agrilinks; December 20, 2015; Online Green Growth and Sustainable Development Forum: OECD; December 14 15, 2015; Paris, France More Events
New Reports, Guides & Tools Community Resilience Framework: Lessons from the Field by Swiss NGO DRR Platform Engendering Men: A Collaborative Review of Evidence on Men and Boys in Social Change and GenderEquality from Institute of Development Studies Gender Inequalities in Ownership and Control of Land in Africa: Myth and Reality from Agricultural Economics When There Is No Food Assistance from World Vision Theories of Change: Time for a Radical Approach to Learning in Development from ODI
Recent Articles Who in this Household Has the Final Say? from The World Bank Saving the World, Startup Style from The New York Times On Kenya's Climate Frontline, Female Farmers Are Building a Secure Future from The Guardian There's a Population Crisis All Right. But Probably Not the One You Think from The Guardian
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