Aisha Buhari Launches National Food and Nutrition Policy
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NEWS | OPERATIONS | PROGRAMS | PEOPLE 3rd Edition September 2016 NIGERIA COUNTRY OFFICE NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2016 ISSUE A quarterly publication of country office activities from various projects MORE NEWS... AISHA BUHARI LAUNCHES NATIONAL FOOD AND NUTRITION POLICY NUTRITION ADVOCACY 71ST SESSION @ THE UNGA Stakeholders call for programme expansion FG to fully implement the National Health Corruption freezes development - President in more LGAs in WINNN implementing Act in 2017 – Minister of Health Buhari tells World Leaders States. Page 9 Page 4 Page 5 WINNN SDI LAGOS SDI Trains Primary School Teachers SDI supports Technical Working Governor Bello Masari vows action on Child- Friendly Participation Group Meeting in Lagos for the towards tackling malnutrition in Techniques for Diarrhoea Implementation of WHO/ UNICEF Katsina state Prevention and Control 7 Point Plan Page 10 Page 7 Page 6 September 2016 newsletter CEO’s LETTER Save the Children at UNGA Dear colleagues, ambitious vision, and to this end we convened a roundtable of civil society CEOs to discuss how we can ensure the world increases its investments Now that the busy week of United Nations General Assembly has come in education and take the report further. to an end, we wanted to share an update with you. · We joined the Every Woman, Every Child Steering Committee, First of all, we want to thank everyone for all their tremendous work. A appointed by Ban Ki-moon, to help lead efforts for an end to all preventable special mention to the US team but especially Debra Jones and the New maternal, newborn and child deaths by 2030. We have also committed to York Advocacy Office, who have worked particularly hard to plan such a spend $2 billion on humanitarian efforts to support this. well-coordinated and successful event. · We also now sit on the SUN (Scaling Up Nutrition) Lead Group. This year’s UNGA had a particular focus on the refugee crisis, with two At the launch event here at the UN, Helle highlighted how the world can summits held on the issue. make good on its promise to end all forms of malnutrition in the next After months of negotiations by all 193 UN Member States, the New fifteen years. York Declaration on Refugees and Migrants was adopted at a High-Level · Led by Save the Children US as well as other members, we Summit on Monday. In a major breakthrough the Declaration includes a spoke in a wide variety of private sector high-level panels and meetings commitment for all Member States to ensure that refugee children have a with key partners—including Accenture, JNJ, P&G, Unilever, GSK, quality education “within a few months” of being displaced. AirBnB, TOMS, UN Global Compact and many others—to build on the The Obama Leaders’ Summit on Refugees, where Carolyn represented us, increasing importance and interest of the private sector in the vision and saw fifty-two countries and international organizations make pledges in implementation of the SDGs. This engagement will be key to the success support of refugee communities and to increase the number of refugees of the SDGs. in school by one million globally. Altogether, at least 17 refugee-hosting · We also convened a roundtable bringing together powerful country governments participating in the Summit committed to strengthen advocates for women and girls at to discuss how we can strengthen our and adapt their policies so that more refugees can attend school. collaborative efforts and make the greatest impact on the lives of women Save the Children will continue to work to ensure that the commitments and girls at a global level. At the Global Citizen Summit, Helle launched the made across the two of these Summits make real and lasting change for Girl Agenda, an initiative headed by Save the Children to lobby the next refugee and migrant children. UN Secretary General takes up the important issues affecting women and Another key theme for us this week was the need to now move from girls. The Girl Agenda was also handed into David Nabarro by Carolyn and ambition to action and create a roadmap for how we will achieve the our two youth delegates. Sustainable Development Goals. One year on and fourteen to go, the · Patricia participated in a panel discussion with the Canadian world is already half a century off track in terms of progress, and far more Government, led by Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Stephane Dion. infrastructure and financing is needed to achieve the ambitious vision of The panel focused on diversity and included a discussion on how we the goals by 2030. can embrace diversity and work together to build stronger communities. With the unfolding crisis in Syria overshadowing proceedings, we used She also accepted an award on behalf of Save the Children from The every opportunity to highlight this issue and met with the UN Special MasterCard Foundation, which acknowledged our close working Envoy to Syria. relationship under our Youth in Action program. We have taken part in hundreds of events and meetings to urge world This year, in addition to our traditional advocacy work, we used innovative leaders attending this week to live up to their responsibilities to children approaches to have the greatest impact. At one event, we linked live to and reach every last child: a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan for the first time ever in the UN. We · On Sunday, we kicked off with the Global Goals also hosted a photo exhibit inside the UN using Patrick Willocq’s striking World Cup game where girls played soccer to tell the world about photos, and ran a full-page ad with the support of some of our donors in the Global Goals. Jonas acted as judge and host and Save the Children the New York Times. Denmark drove our participation. As one girl playing said, if people don’t We also reached those outside the UN by speaking to media. We were know about the goals, we will have no hope of meeting them. Carolyn interviewed by CNN, Sky News, Channel 4 News, BBC Radio 4 and BBC participated in a plenary interview with BBC moderator Alan Kasujja and Radio 5 live. Our Forced to Flee: Inside the World’s 21st Largest Country UNHCR head Fillippo Grandi to kick off the Social Good Summit and report was featured in Devex, Mashable and UN Dispatch, and our call for talk about our report, Forced to Flee: Inside the 21st Largest Country. a step up in SDG implementation in the New Statesman. · We made a big push for education and education in emergencies. The two young women who joined us, Hiba and Anoyara, were an The Education Commission launched their report. Helle is a member inspiration to all. They participated in dozens of events, spoke passionately of this initiative headed up by Gordon Brown, and the findings show about the issues refugee children and girls are facing globally, and shared it is possible to give all children a quality education by 2030 if leaders their journeys on social media. make political commitments and increase financing. We had a chance to Should you have any questions, please reach out to Debra Jones, Director discuss the findings of the Commission with Rihanna who is going to be and United Nations Representative for Save the Children (Debra.Jones@ a champion for education. Tove has been appointed board member of the savethechildren.org). A full report on our activities will be available in the Education Cannot Wait initiative fund, which approved their first initial coming weeks. investments of more than $42 million to Chad, Yemen and Syria. Education Sincerely, Cannot Wait also received new funding from Denmark ($11.3 million) and Canada ($20 million). We must keep up the pressure to achieve this Helle, Carolyn, Tove, Jonas, and Patricia 2 Save the Children Nigeria - 3rd Quarter Newsletter September 2016 newsletter STAFF IN ACTION What are the strategic duties your perform in your role as Humanitarian Programs Officer? As the Humanitarian Programme Officer, I am mandated to provide the various thematic areas in the Humanitarian unit (Food Security and Livelihood, WASH, Nutrition, Child Protection and Education) adequate support in ensuring effective delivery in its implementation activities. I augment the administrative duties of the Humanitarian unit while also serving as a communication link between Humanitarian team in the country office and field office (vice Meet Faith Ette, Humanitarian programs versa) and with internal and external stakeholders regarding Humanitarian officer as she talks about her journey so matters. far with Save the Children Would you join Save the Children again if you had another opportunity to be a Can you tell us about you and when What do you like about the job? part of us again? you joined Save the Children? I have got the best colleagues which Absolutely Yes! Any opportunity to I am Faith Ette, I joined Save the makes the job no matter how tasking be part of Save the Children in the Children on the 5th of June, 2015 fun to accomplish. future gets my YES! as an Intern with the advocacy/ campaign unit. I am currently the What is the most difficult part of your What are your career goals? Humanitarian Program Officer. job? To build my capacity in the How was it like when you started with There is no difficult part in the job. Humanitarian and Emergency the Humanitarian team? As I learnt how the Humanitarian response management and provide unit works, all I needed to do was project management support to It was really tasking because in the prioritize and know who to approach/ the unit while developing overall Humanitarian team, everything is who has the solution to what task technical and managerial skills in fast-paced due to the emergency was proving challenging.