Many thanks to our early contributors. I am just back from Guatemala, and was looking first-hand into how to deliver nutrition services to the most vulnerable. Some of what is discussed resonates already.
Inherent to many discussions of social protection are issues around human rights, respect, and equity. Who is included? Under what criteria? In what locations? Do the programs fundamentally impact their dignity? Should we even *need* programs?
In fact, the scope of this conversation is at its core about experience, and the opportunity here through the FSN Forum and in-person in Moscow is to examine how we can collectively increase quality of life across multiple fronts. Thanks for the comments on food education and measurement of nutrition outcomes, which are examples of things we need to think about in more detail.
These conversations, and the questions included here, reflect an identified need to link nutrition and social protection programs. We often discuss ways to ‘reduce the equity gap’, and this is one of them; what we anticipated when putting this discussion together, is a way to compare, contrast, and share ways that address the roots of malnutrition better than has been done. There is an old proverb saying, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” While the FSN Forum may not be a channel reaching directly to those affected by the programming, it is a powerful tool to reach many outside the ‘ivory towers’ who know how to improve programming. We are convening as a global community, taking a small slice of a much larger issue, and pushing forward together.
We look forward to remaining weeks of this discussion (and hope to see more contributions from social protection experts)!
Dear all,
Many thanks to our early contributors. I am just back from Guatemala, and was looking first-hand into how to deliver nutrition services to the most vulnerable. Some of what is discussed resonates already.
Inherent to many discussions of social protection are issues around human rights, respect, and equity. Who is included? Under what criteria? In what locations? Do the programs fundamentally impact their dignity? Should we even *need* programs?
In fact, the scope of this conversation is at its core about experience, and the opportunity here through the FSN Forum and in-person in Moscow is to examine how we can collectively increase quality of life across multiple fronts. Thanks for the comments on food education and measurement of nutrition outcomes, which are examples of things we need to think about in more detail.
These conversations, and the questions included here, reflect an identified need to link nutrition and social protection programs. We often discuss ways to ‘reduce the equity gap’, and this is one of them; what we anticipated when putting this discussion together, is a way to compare, contrast, and share ways that address the roots of malnutrition better than has been done. There is an old proverb saying, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” While the FSN Forum may not be a channel reaching directly to those affected by the programming, it is a powerful tool to reach many outside the ‘ivory towers’ who know how to improve programming. We are convening as a global community, taking a small slice of a much larger issue, and pushing forward together.
We look forward to remaining weeks of this discussion (and hope to see more contributions from social protection experts)!