RedR's food security and nutrition in emergencies module offers participants the opportunity to broaden their knowledge and skills on addressing the important issues relating to food insecurity, malnutrition and food aid planning and management. Theory, practice and hands-on experience are all built into this intensive four-day module.

Course Objectives and Outline:

The course is designed to meet the needs of generalist relief programme managers and those involved in emergency needs assessments. It aims to provide participants with skills and knowledge in the design and execution of food security responses in emergency relief programmes. Specifically, participants will be able to:

1. Design and carry out a comprehensive food security, nutrition and food aid needs assessment and analysis.

2. Identify appropriate interventions for food insecurity in emergency and post emergency situations, and contribute to designing, planning, implementation and monitoring of these interventions.

3. Understand the essential linkages between food security and other sectoral interventions during an emergency response.

4. To understand the humanitarian standards of food security, nutrition and food aid, as a universal benchmark that is used to plan program

5. To understand the issues and challenges in food security programming during crisis management.