Emergency Health and Nutrition Training

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Emergency Health and Nutrition Training
Next Steps
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Sharing What Youve Learned

• How do I share what Ive learned in the Emergency
  Health and Nutrition Training?
• These are several suggested ways that you can
  share your learning at country level
• Briefing with country office Senior Management
  Team
• Share the Emergency Health and Nutrition Toolkit
  at Capital and Project Offices
• Participate actively at country level Emergency
  Preparedness and Response Planning, and share
  with the emergency point person the training
  materials
• Briefing with project team, and share materials
• Participate at country level emergency response
  trainings, and actively share learning with the
  team
• Actively participate at country and impact area
  level emergency response, in accordance with the
  plan/strategy of the country office

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Using the EHN Toolkit

• The EHN toolkit is an online interactive resource
  developed by
• Save the Children in collaboration with the
  Centers for Disease
• Control and Prevention (CDC) intended to build
  capacity among
• health staff working in the development setting
  and can be used
• for training on individual topics, full modules,
  or as a
• comprehensive 5-day training
• If you plan to conduct module based or full
  package training at
• country level please contact us to get topic
  based guidance and
• updates

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Using the EHN Toolkit

• Within the toolkit, you will find six modules
• Introduction to the Emergency Context
• Save the Children Emergency Preparedness and
  Response
• Assessment Tools
• Child Health
• Infant and Child Nutrition
• Reproductive and Newborn Health

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Using the EHN Toolkit

• Contributing to each module, you will find
  individual sessions composed of
• A session overview and facilitation notes
• An issue summary sheet
• A PowerPoint presentation
• A case study (in some cases)
• Related resources, tools and recommended readings

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Using the EHN Toolkit

• The EHN Toolkit also houses additional resources
  such as
• A resource library
• An Emergency Health and Nutrition Glossary
• Key Save the Children Emergency Health and
  Nutrition Staff Directory
• Save the Children Emergency Strategy
• Country Emergency Preparedness Plans

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Putting it to Use

• Create a Health and Nutrition Emergency
  Preparedness Response Plan
• Get to know your emergency colleagues before
  the emergency hits!
• Put what you have learned to use get involved
  with the emergency team
• Coordinate/Liaise with national emergency
  response networks and peer organizations

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Creating/Maintaining a Preparedness and Response
Plan

• Each Save the Children Country Office is expected
  to have an emergency preparedness and response
  plan, that will be regularly updated. This
  preparedness and response plan will have sector
  topics including emergency health and
  nutrition. Actively engage with your country
  office emergency point person to make sure sector
  preparedness and response on emergency health is
  incorporated and updated regularly

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Creating/Maintaining a Preparedness and Response
Plan

• Seasonal mapping if your Country Office has
  seasonal mapping of potential disasters by
  geography and time, do include what potential
  health risks there might be for the population at
  risk. You can find resources for this under the
  WHO emergency preparedness website for your
  country office.

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Creating/Maintaining a Preparedness and Response
Plan

• Country level disaster preparedness and response
  meetings that are lead/coordinated by WHO or
  national bodies are important sources of
  information, and might be of value to engage at
  country or project level

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Creating/Maintaining a Preparedness and Response
Plan

• Participate/contribute to Save the Children
  global capacity building initiative on emergency
  health this will include online elluminate
  trainings on emergency health, and sharing of
  lessons learned from emergency health responses