Humanitarian nutrition advocacy is a strategic and evidence-based process aiming to influence policies, practices and behaviours that safeguard and improve the nutrition of individuals affected by emergencies.
The GNC 2022 - 2025 GNC Advocacy Strategy has set three interlinked advocacy priorities: coordination, prioritization, and financing in situations of fragility. These priorities contribute to strengthening the nutrition response by shifting mindsets and systems towards scaling up, multi-sector, multi-year, unearmarked funding to better support the nutritional needs of people in crisis.
At a country level, advocacy is a key component of the nutrition clusters’ humanitarian response. Areas for nutrition cluster-specific and inter-cluster advocacy include:
Advocacy for needs: Cluster partners can engage in advocacy on specific operational or policy issues to ensure needs are met, or in advocacy concerning neglected emergencies or sectors.
Advocacy for funding influences donor priorities, policies, and frameworks to secure funding, urging donors to act as advocates of humanitarian responses.
High-level advocacy for protection of human rights and humanitarian principles ensures information sharing and multi-sector monitoring for evidence-based advocacy messaging.
Country-level nutrition clusters must develop an advocacy strategy that is guided by the four humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence, providing the foundations for humanitarian action. Several resources to develop, implement and evaluate cluster advocacy strategies are available in the resources section below.
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