Unicef West Africa Regional Office is looking for a French speaking trainer for deployment immediately to Niger to train on integrating psychosocial support into nutrition programmes. There is the possibility for the trainer to be used in other countries within the Sahel at a later stage. Please contact me if you know of somone.

Useful Child Protection, Mainstreaming CP in other sectors and Nutrition tools on cpwg.net.
Visit the Sahel Emergency section for latest updates as well:

http://cpwg.net/countries/

Manual for the integration of Child Care Practices and Mental Health into Nutrition Programmes, Action Contre La Faim, (2006): http://www.actioncontrelafaim.org/publications/scientifiques-et-techniques/ouvrages-et-fascicules-techniques/

Sahel section on the Child Protection network: http://cpwg.net/resource-country/sahel-emergency/

Dear Sarah, thanks for all the shared resources. I am currently creating a Sahel page on cpwg.net. Will revert soon on this group with the link.

Useful resources related to Child Protection and Nutrition: http://cpwg.net/resource/

Below are the very basic results & lessons learned from the Horn of Africa crisis in 2011-2012, which may be useful for the Sahel/ West Africa looming crisis:

1. Mobile CFS can reach out to migratory populations (and children at risk) if they are placed near watering holes/ water points for pastoralists and refugee families. Water points were…[Read more]

Unravelling Malnutrition: Challenges of a Psychosoclal Approach, developed by Terre des hommes Lausanne from work carried out in Nepal in 2003: http://mhpss.net/wp-content/uploads/group-documents/129/1312539951-TdhNepal.pdf

Manual for the integration of Child Care Practices and Mental health within nutritional programmes from ACF (in French): http://www.actioncontrelafaim.org/publications/scientifiques-et-techniques/ouvrages-et-fascicules-techniques/.