en-net is a free and open online community platform hosted by Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN). It was initially established for practitioners in remote locations to have access to prompt technical advice for operational challenges and to help early career professionals find the answers they need as soon as possible. It has now evolved into a global conversation space for informal peer discussions on every topic from new and emerging problems to challenging or atypical situations and innovative technical responses.

All posts are available to be viewed on en-net without registering, if you wish to submit a query to en-net, or answer a question, you must register as an en-net user. 

As part of the registration process, you’ll confirm your email, and agree to our terms and conditions about user conduct on en-net. We want en-net to be a safe and useful space, where everyone is treated respectfully, and our moderators will work to ensure we uphold these standards. 

When you register, you can choose to receive email alerts when questions and/or answers are posted for each forum area. 

We offer the option to post questions and answers anonymously, although we encourage you to post using your name and affiliation if you feel comfortable doing so. When posting anonymously, please include as much information as possible regarding the context in which you work and your areas of expertise.

Questions posted are received by the Forum Moderator. Where the answer to a question is available in guidance materials or in a previous en-net question and answer exchange, the user will be directed to the appropriate resource/en-net exchange. This question will not be posted online.

All en-net users can respond to a question.

Any questions that do not receive a reply from the en-net community, and may be particularly challenging, are escalated for input by the Forum Moderator to the designated Technical Expert for that thematic area.

ENN welcomes feedback from users on their en-net experience and its application to practice and will undertake periodic evaluations of user experiences.

Users are requested to respect the views of others and to participate in discussions in the spirit of an informal exchange of ideas and experience.

The forum is open to all and, as such, ENN takes no responsibility for the quality, accuracy or appropriateness of responses by users.

There are currently 15 thematic areas that are: 

1. Adolescent nutrition
2. Announcements and nutritionists needed
3. Assessment and surveillance
4. Costing and cost-effectiveness of wasting programmes
5. COVID-19 and nutrition programming
6. Food assistance
7. Infant and young child feeding interventions
8. Management of small and nutritionally at risk infants under six months and their mothers (MAMI)
9. Management of wasting/acute malnutrition
10. Micronutrients
11. Other thematic areas
12. Partnerships for research
13. Prevention and management of stunting
14. Scaling up nutrition (SUN) [archived, view only]
15. Upcoming trainings

If your question does not fall under any of the technical areas above, please submit it under ‘Other thematic area’. The theme areas are regularly reviewed and revised as applicable.