Transcript GNC Update - Nutrition Cluster

GNC Update
July 2013 to August 2014
GNC Annual meeting
16-18 September 2014
Rome, Italy
GNC Achievements 2014
Strategic Pillar 1: Partnership, communication, advocacy and fundraising
• Strategic documents developed
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3- year Strategic Plan finalized
2-year Costed Work Plan developed
Standard Operating Procedures finalized
Fundraising strategy
Re-commitment of partners: 32 partners, 8 observers
GNC working session (February)
Launch of the Work Plan to IASC and donors (July)
Input into global documents and tools (CCRM, CCPM
tool, Humanitarian Programme Cycle document and
Humanitarian Programme Monitoring Framework)
• Concept note for advocacy work under this pillar
developed and costed
GNC Achievements 2014
Strategic Pillar 2: Capacity development in humanitarian coordination
• Updated training packages
– Cluster Coordination
– Cluster Approach Awareness Training
• Conducted trainings
– 2 regional Cluster Coordination trainings
– 3 country level Cluster Approach trainings
GNC Achievements 2014
Strategic Pillar 3: Operational and Surge Support to Country Clusters
• RRT (5 members)
– 15 deployments to 7 emergency countries
– Scoping missions, support missions for response and for
Cluster Performance Monitoring
• GNC-CT
– 4 missions to S Sudan
– Support to 5 country clusters implementing Cluster
Performance Monitoring
– Sourced additional surge capacity from standby partners- 5
requests filled
• Concept note for funding developed, costed and
shared with donors (launch and email)
RRT statistics
RRT non-deployment activity
• Non-deployment time: 25% GNC, 25% host
agency
• Reality:
– 13% supporting pre/post deployment,
– 14.3% on cluster mainstreaming and NiE work in
host agency
– GNC time 21.6% - on website development,
updating trainings, support to GNC events and
publications
Emergency response support
• Syria- declared L3 March 2012, RRT support
scoping mission and 9 week support
• Philippines- November 2013- GNC Deputy
coordinator, 3 RRTs, 2 standby partners, 2 UNICEF
surge support
• CAR- declared L3 in December, RRT support
Jan/Feb during which time NCC and IMO were
recruited
• S Sudan- declared L3 in January 2014, GNC-CT
remote support and 4 visits by GNC-CT
GNC Achievements 2014
Strategic Pillar 4: Information and Knowledge Management
• IM taskforce established and had several calls
• Concept notes for funding have been
developed, costed and shared with donors
(launch and email)
• New GNC website www.nutritioncluster.org
Constraints
• Funding has not been received for all Work Plan
activities
• Over six months of GNC-CT time and RRT time
spent on SSD in 2014
• Inadequate time spent of none L3 countries
• Substantial amount of time spent on PCA
management by both GNC-CT and RRT host
agencies
• Unprecedented pressure on GNC-CT and RRTs on
during L3 responses (both in fulfillment of core
functioned as well as programme scale up).