• Establish and maintain appropriate humanitarian coordination mechanisms in the state: ensure inclusion of key partners and organize regular cluster meetings as required.
• Create and maintain state level contact directories and mailing lists.
• Represent the Food Security Cluster (FSC) in the State inter Cluster Coordination Group (S-ICCG) meetings.
• Represent the FSC in engagements with the government, resource partners and other key stakeholders at state level and national levels if needed.
• Participate in various coordination forums including S-ICCG, working groups (e.g. CWG) and other relevant clusters, especially Nutrition, WASH, Health, CCCM and Protection.
• Ensure timely, inclusive and regular information sharing and discussion with the state level FSC partners through various modalities including cluster meetings, email dissemination of cluster products (dashboards, maps, assessments, etc.).
• Ensure state level monitoring of the food security and livelihoods response implementation and reporting (including gap analysis and capitalization documents).
• Establish and maintain state level Technical Working Groups to support partners in key thematic areas (e.g. targeting, accessing hard to reach areas, etc.);
• Contribute to facilitation of needs assessment & analysis such as FSNAU seasonal assessments, market price monitoring, secondary data review, and dissemination of available information (inventory / repository) to partners.
• Ensure mainstreaming of cross-cutting and cross-sectoral issues (e.g. AAP, inclusion of vulnerable marginalized and minority groups, gender, age, disability, protection etc.) and appropriate participatory and community-based approaches in cluster/inter-cluster needs assessments, analysis, planning, implementation and monitoring;
• Ensure the use and application of common standards by FSC state level partners and harmonization of programmatic responses (e.g. Food Minimum Expenditure Basket transfer values, minimum response package, cash+ minimum emergency livelihoods packages etc.);
• Identify capacity gaps and needs and facilitate training and capacity building opportunities to state level FSC partners;
• Contribute to state level contingency planning and coordinate cluster/sector-wide emergency preparedness and response;
• Undertake planning and strategy development by contributing to the HNO and HRP through coordinating the design of the response strategy, in consultation with the cluster partners in the state;
• Contribute to the review of state level FSC partners projects submitted on the HPC online system, based on the agreed inclusion criteria (where relevant);
• Ensure the development of regular state level food security reports (Sit reps, Bulletins etc.)