Call for FSN Network Gender Task Force Members

As many of you know, the Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) Network has been forming a number of task forces in key technical areas to foster cross-organizational collaboration, knowledge sharing around best practices, and innovation.  To-date, task forces have coalesced around agriculture, social and behavior change, nutrition and monitoring and evaluation. The FSN Network task forces are strongly implementation- and field-focused, seeking to set the agenda in their technical areas, respond to implementation challenges, and develop, validate or improve upon existing methods, tools, or approaches.

There is growing interest in a task force on gender integration as well. Please let us know if you're interested in joining. RSVP to Melissa Teuber @savechildren.org or John Russell@mercycorpsdc.org

As with other task forces, the focus will be on seeking to improve implementation of interventions designed to increase gender equity in food security programming. It is envisioned that the initial work of this task force will look at documenting implementation needs, and setting an agenda for gender integration from a field focus, including cataloging known best practices and approaches, identifying gaps and priority needs, and defining core competencies.

Please note, the structure and agenda of this organic, cross-organizational collaboration mechanism will ultimately be determined by the stakeholders who choose to participate. Once the group is assembled, it will elect a Chair or Co-Chairs. TOPS will provide secretariat and technical support to the task force to ensure that it has the support it needs to function smoothly and have impact.

As with other efforts in the FSN Network, we respect the fact that you are busy individuals and do not intend for this effort to be a great drain on your time. Rather, we believe there is the opportunity for great innovation and tremendous problem solving in collaborative effort and in bringing dedicated and experienced professionals around the table - in person or virtually.