Webinar on “Child Nutrition, Health and Resilience”

(PM 10 Pint Agenda no-1&8; SDG-2&3)

Organised by

The Child Centric Disaster Risk Reduction (CCDRR) Centre

National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM)

Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India

In Association with

Prabhat Kumar College, Contai

Date:   7^th December, 2020, Monday,  Time:  3:00 PM -5:00 PM

Background

India is among the world’s most disaster-prone countries with 27 of its 29 states and seven union territories exposed to recurrent natural hazards such as cyclones, earthquakes, landslides, floods and droughts.More severe and frequent climate-related shocks, changing seasons and gradual changes increase the overall risk of hunger and undernutrition through various causal pathways that relate to livelihoods; food security; maternal and child care and feeding practices; and water, sanitation and health.  In five major natural disasters from 2000-2016 some 17,671 children lost their lives. The 2015-2016 drought in ten states affected an estimated 330 million people, including 37 million children under age five. Many aspects of children’s lives are affected adversely including, but not limited to dropping out of school due to schools being used for other purposes such as shelters during natural disasters, missing immunization due to disruption of health services and the non-availability of nutritious food, clean water and sanitation facilities leading to malnourishment and diseases.  Both sudden on-set disasters and chronic long-term disasters have potential impacts on food security, disease and the nutritional status of vulnerable populations. Recently, the rapid increase in the number of pandemic  cases, as well as the measures adopted to contain its spread have put many families at risk by impacting their food supply, livelihoods and household incomes and their ability to access critical services for health and nutrition, early childhood care, education and social protection globally and in India. COVID-19 is a complex crisis that affects all aspects of life, both immediate and long-term.The prevalence of malnutrition in India has notably declined over the last decade, and the Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey 2016-18 revealed that major challenges remain. There are still around 20 million children under five years of age who are suffering from wasting, over 40 million children are chronically malnourished , and more than half of Indian women aged 15-49 years are anemic. The secondary impacts of the COVID-19 crisis are aggravating the challenges faced by many families, especially in terms of access to affordable and nutritious food. This could reverse some of the recent gains in reducing malnutrition. Efforts to promote and protect the nutritional status of children and mothers in emergency prone countries are critical to ensure better resilience and faster recovery. According to International commitment, health is a key element of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, adopted by member state. Hence, the Sendai Framework also places strong emphasis on resilient health systems by the integration of disaster risk management into health care provision at all levels, and by the development of the capacity of health workers in understanding disaster risk and applying and implementing disaster risk approaches in health work for resilience. The webinar is helpful for different stakeholders for understanding the need of nutritious food security for the children for building resilience

Objectives

• To enhancing the links between resilience and nutrition.
• To describe the common ground between approaches designed to improve nutrition and those aimed at strengthening resilience.
• To highlight how the growing attention to resilience represents an opportunity to engage in more effective nutrition programming.
• To discuss what a nutrition lens can bring to resilience programming in order to maximize the nutritional outcomes of resilience programs in the context of the food and agriculture sector.

Outcome of the Webinar

• Help to understand  about the linkage of resilience and nutrition for well–being and sustainable development of the children.
• Help to design and formulate policy framework for Children nutrition and health resilience in emergencies.
• Enhancing and strengthening capacity of national health system for resilience.

Target Audience

This webinar is intended for officials of National and State Level Sectoral Departments, Administrative Training Institutions and Civil Society Practitioners, Community, Teachers  andStudents.

• Patron

             Major General Manoj Kumar Bindal, Executive Director, National Institute of Disaster Management

• President

             Dr. Amit Kumar De, Hon’ble Principal, Prabhat Kumar College, Contai

• Guidance

             Prof. Santosh Kumar, Head, GIDRR & CCDRR, NIDM

• Team Leader

              Dr. Kumar Raka, Programme Officer, CCDRR Centre

• Coordinator

             Mr. Ranjan Kumar, Program Associate, CCDRR, NIDM

             Dr. Ratan Sarkar, Assistant Professor of Education, Department of Teachers' Training (B.Ed.),Prabhat Kumar College, Contai 

• Eminent Speakers

1. Shri Ray Kancharla, Senior Advisor & Consultant – Humanitarian, Development & Climate Resilience  
2. Shri Basant Kar, Recipient of Global Nutrition Leadership Award - fondly known as "Nutrition Man"

Agenda

Greetings from CCDRR, National Institute of Disaster Management!!!

Looking forward for your valuable participation in next of our Webinar on “Child Nutrition,Health &Resilence ” on 7^th  December 2020, Monday  from* 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM.*

To join the programme click the Cisco WebEx link below:

https://nidmmhaindia.webex.com/nidmmhaindia/onstage/g.php?MTID=ebb0f7655caa716fe2ec9957799870120

Event number:      176 232 3396

Event password:  2020

Registration Links: https://forms.gle/7TUC4PYTWT8dNoUS8

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Thanks and Regards

CCDRR, National Institute of Disaster Management,

Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India.