Meeting essential needs in humanitarian and livelihood programs - accounting for the cost of a nutritious diet

Participants will discuss examples of how estimates of the cost of a nutritious diet for the Rohingya refugee response in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh and Save the Children graduation programming in the Suchana project in Sylhet, Bangladesh are taken into account alongside the essential needs assessments that deteremine the cost of a basic food basket, and are used to determine support packages that are provided by these programs.

Presentations:

• Introduction: Meeting essential needs in humanitarian and livelihood programs - accounting for the cost of a nutritious diet
  Saskia de Pee, PhD – WFP
• Basic foods or Nutritious foods - estimating their costs to inform programming
  Nora Hobbs, Msc – UN World Food Programme; Elizabeth Bontrager – USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, Nutrition Team; Margaret Holmesheoran, MA, MS, MPH – USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance
• Livelihood based programming - aiming for access to basic food or nutritious food?
  Raisul Haque – Save The Children
• FNG Analysis: Informing pre-COVID and COVID response in Bangladesh and Rohingya Refugees
  Piet Vochten – World Food Programme
• Meeting essential needs in humanitarian and livelihood programs - accounting for the cost of a nutritious diet
  
  Elizabeth Bontrager – USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, Nutrition Team; Margaret Holmesheoran, MA, MS, MPH – USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance
• Q&A: Meeting essential needs in humanitarian and livelihood programs - accounting for the cost of a nutritious diet
  Saskia de Pee, PhD – WFP