Historically, the humanitarian aid and global development sectors have operated separately with different areas of focus. However, with the scale of needs and associated costs increasing year-on-year, humanitarian and development actors must collaborate more to save lives in humanitarian crises, improve enabling environments, and institute longer-term solutions and systems to chronic issues that fuel fragility and vulnerability. The Humanitarian Development Nexus aims to bring these two worlds together to address the root causes of these issues so that no one is left behind.
The Humanitarian Development Nexus Working Group
Nutrition interventions that consider how humanitarian, development, and peace building efforts intersect increase populations' resilience and nutrition security in the face of recurrent shocks. The GNC Humanitarian Development Nexus Working Group promotes collaboration between in-country emergency and development nutrition practitioners and supports them as they develop and implement joint, long-term, multi-sectoral programmes that prevent and respond to malnutrition in highly fragile contexts.
Key Activities
- Engaging in-country and regional development and humanitarian nutrition actors with the Humanitarian Development Peace Nexus (HDPN)
- Providing practical guidance and communications that help to close the gap between development and humanitarian nutrition programming
- Collaborating and coordinating with global leadership structures to raise the profile of HDPN within the nutrition sector and ensure nutrition-specific considerations are taken into account
- Responding to country-level requests for support with HDPN and equipping the GNC with the knowledge and tools to embed HDPN considerations into country-level support
Main Contacts
