This event was organized to highlight the nutrition risks faced by vulnerable groups in the Venezuela migration crisis, present key response actions taken by R4V Nutrition partners to prevent and treat malnutrition and collect different perspectives from host and donor governments, and humanitarian actors on the key elements needed to ensure adequate nutrition in refugee and migrant children and women.

Panelists

Moderator

Mariana Coolican, Partnerships Public Sector Officer, UNICEF Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean

Host governments

• Dinte Conway, Director, Food Policy, Ministry of Health, Guyana
• Maria Juliana Ruiz, First Lady of Colombia (pre-recorded video)
• Zulma Fonseca, Director of Nutrition, Colombian Institute of Family Welfare

Donor governments

• Gloria Puertas Aznárez, Regional Health and Nutrition Expert, Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, European Commission, DG ECHO
• Janine Cocker, Head of Development Cooperation, High Commission of Canada to Guyana and Suriname

Regional Nutrition Sector Coordinator

• Yvette Fautsch, Coordinator, Regional R4V Nutrition Sector, Latin America and the Caribbean

R4V UN

• Youssouf Abdel-Jelil, Regional Deputy Director, UNICEF Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
• Paula Veliz, Regional Nutrition Specialist, UNICEF Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean

R4V NGOs

• América Arias, Country Director, Action Against Hunger (ACH) Peru
• Victoria Ward, Director, Save the Children Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean

You will find the recording of the event at the following link: https://youtu.be/ZplMapZShbQ