Global Nutrition Cluster 124d ago

UNICEF, the Cluster Lead Agency for Nutrition, WASH and Education, recognises the role that clusters play at the national level in providing strategic leadership, technical guidance, and policy engagement, in supporting field teams, and in mobilising resources. Following the 2025 global funding cuts, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator launched a humanitarian reset ‘calling for aid agencies, and the international system coordinating and delivering humanitarian assistance, to regroup and adapt.’ As part of the humanitarian reset process, the IASC announced a reduction in the number of clusters from 11 clusters and four areas of responsibility to eight clusters. In the context of the new GNC Strategy 2026-2029, with its strengthened localisation objectives, and in support of the Global Cluster Coordination Group (GCCG) Localisation Working Group session at the Humanitarian Networks and Partnership Week (HNPW), the GNC is convening a forum on 25 February with Local and National Actors (LNAs) to ensure their perspectives and priorities inform the humanitarian reset, cluster simplification, and transition processes. Discussions will focus on the following key questions: · Which coordination functions are most critical to sustain once a cluster exits, from the perspective of local and national actors? · Which coordination roles can LNAs realistically assume, individually or collectively, and what enabling support, capacities, and partnerships are required to do so effectively? · How can essential coordination enablers—such as information management systems and accountability to affected populations—be maintained and governed locally beyond cluster deactivation? A summary of the webinar inputs will be presented during the HNPW, and a one-page summary readout of the session shared with participants thereafter.