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Balancing humanitarian, development and peace activities in countries affected by long-term crises.
If you speak to national actors in...
Balancing humanitarian, development and peace activities in countries affected by long-term crises.
If you speak to national actors in countries affected by protracted or recurrent crises many express a strongly held belief that international development partners are focussing too much on humanitarian programming at the expense of longer-term development investment....
N4D reflections at the two-year milestone
It is two years since the formation of N4D when a small group of like-minded nutrition practitioners came together to ‘try and make a difference’ in nutrition. Although the three N4D founding partners had all travelled different career routes, each with 30-40 years of...
Time for change if resilience in fragile and conflict affected states is to be realised
In this piece, N4D shares thoughts on two inter-connected issues in fragile and conflict affected contexts (FCAS): (i) resilience building and (ii) more efficient and sustainable means of providing aid. This is timely as we head to the much awaited Nutrition for...
Re-thinking Knowledge Management and Learning for Nutrition
It’s 25 years since the Rwandan genocide and ensuing Great Lakes refugee emergency which led to the largest ever multi-sector evaluation of an emergency response and then to wide ranging humanitarian reform and the establishment of the IASC cluster system. Buried in...
Improving Nutrition in Protracted Crises: how can we do better?
Over the last few years many of us in the international nutrition world have talked about the need to strengthen the humanitarian and development nexus (HDN). This isn’t a new idea and harks back at least 30 years to notions of better linking relief and development...
N4D Manifesto – Transforming knowledge into action for nutrition and development
Welcome to the N4D website! We have established N4D because we are committed, like many others, to the goal of ending malnutrition. With nearly 100 years collective experience of working in public nutrition, we have a strong sense of where gaps and pinch-points...