Emergency Nutrition Network

Published purpose

A series of emergency programme evaluations in the 1990's highlighted a gap in the practice and institutional memory of humanitarian agencies involved in the food and nutrition sector. As a result, a consortium of agencies came together in 1996 to establish the Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN) to synthesize the multiple experiences of humanitarian agencies conducting food and nutrition interventions. The mission of the organization is to accelerate the process of learning to ensure that people of humanitarian concern receive the most effective help in nutrition and food aid based upon prevailing field-based, best practice and knowledge. With a small skeleton staff and relatively low operating costs, since 1997, ENN has become a key actor for maintaining a network of experts in nutrition and food aid, facilitating international inter-agency meetings on infant feeding and developing evidence-based operational guidelines and training modules on the effective delivery of food aid and nutrition in emergencies. With CIDA support, ENN Phase V continues the publication of Field Exchange, its trainings in ENN`s developed of infant feeding in emergencies (IFE) manual, and advance research and policy work on nutrition and food aid in emergencies.