IFE Core Group members and activity areas
The IFE Core Group goal is to strengthen the protection, promotion and support of safe and appropriate infant and young child feeding in emergencies. Emergency preparedness, the quality and timeliness of emergency response, and recovery are key considerations and focus areas in the work of the group.
Membership comprises named individuals with expertise in policy and programming in and/or relevant to infant and young child feeding in emergencies. They may be independent or associated with an agency.
Current full members of the IFE Core Group (indivduals located within agencies) are:
Associate member:
Fondation Terre des hommes
Individual members:
Ali Maclaine and Karleen Gribble
Areas of activity
The IFE Core Group’s work to date has centred on development of policy guidance and capacity building tools, capturing and learning from what happens in emergency response with regard to infant and young child feeding and promoting policy and practice change in the context of preparedness and response.
The IFE Core Group strategic areas of activity are:
- Advocacy on infant and young child feeding in emergencies within and external to agencies, across sectors and from policy level to field practice
- Capturing experiences and extracting lessons from emergency response and reflecting these in policy guidance updates and resource development
- Supporting proactive and reactive strong, technically sound and consistent communication in general media and statements
- Identifying policy, guidance and research gaps and highlighting these to policy makers/researchers and relevant organisations and agencies
- ‘Stop gapping’ policy and guidance where there are outstanding and critical gaps in guidance from normative agencies
- Dissemination of key resources
- Peer to peer support for members to enable putting operational guidance into practice
- Participation in global initiatives and forums around improving emergency response, such as the Global Nutrition Cluster, The Sphere Project, and the technical forum, en-net and various trainings
The IFE Core Group does not directly implement programmes.
