The e-learning series " Making social assistance programmes work for nutrition: the ISPA-FSN tool" presents the basic concepts regarding food security, nutrition and social protection, describing the linkages between social protection and nutrition outcomes with a special focus on social assistance. It also focuses on the ISPA-FSN tool for the assessment of social assistance programmes, indicating the main steps and activities for implementing the ISPA-FSN tool throughout its four phases.
The e-learning series consists of the following courses:
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Linkages between food security, nutrition and social protection: An introduction to basic concepts and principles
This e-learning course explains how social protection programmes can improve food security and nutrition outcomes. It provides learners with the basis needed to understand the work modalities, purpose and usefulness of the Inter-Agency Social Protection Assessment – Food Security and Nutrition (ISPA-FSN) tool presented in the following course of this series: ‘The ISPA-FSN tool: Assessing social assistance programmes for better food security and nutrition
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The ISPA-FSN tool: Assessing social assistance programmes for better food security and nutrition
This e-learning course follows the previous one of the series: ‘Linkages between food security, nutrition and social protection: An introduction to basic concepts and principles’. It provides information on the process of conducting an assessment of social assistance and/or safety net programmes (part of the wider social protection measures) using the ISPA-FSN tool, presenting the four phases of the tool and how to implement its steps and activities.
Some of the courses conclude with a final test. A digital badge certificate is issued upon successful completion of the test.
Depending on the interest of learners, the self-paced courses in this series can be completed as a whole (which is preferable), or as individual courses (or lessons), taken independently.
Throughout the course series, references are made to specific courses or lessons where certain subjects are covered more extensively. Each course takes the learner step-by-step through the learning content using interactive screens and is complemented by exercises and links to additional material and websites for further reading.