Category: Humanitarian interventions

AAH in Tajikistan: a flexible response based on analysing the causes of malnutrition

Tajikistan is the most land locked country in the world. The country covers 143,100 km2, an area approximately equivalent to the size of Greece.

Issue 14, November 2001 (page 19)

Aid responses to Afghanistan: lessons from previous evaluations

Summary of report.

Issue 17, November 2002 (page 27)

Emergency Food Assistance Following Hurricane Mitch: an Evaluation of the WFP response

Summary of an Evaluation.

Issue 9, March 2000 (page 18)

Emergency school feeding programmes

Summary of evaluation.

Issue 31, September 2007 (page 23)

Ethiopia: another 1984 famine?

This article is based on a review of recent literature as well as a number of interviews with humanitarian agency staff that have had long-term experience and knowledge of Ethiopia.

Issue 18, March 2003 (page 18)

Evaluation of the Wajir Relief Programme 1996-98

Published Evaluation.

Issue 10, July 2000 (page 14)

Household Food Economy Assessment in Kakuma Refugee Camp

Over the past five years SCF UK have been working on a research programme to develop a famine early warning tool called Risk Mapping.

Issue 1, May 1997 (page 9)

Industry: unlikely players in emergency food distribution

The destruction brought by the violence of Hurricane Mitch from October 26-27th of l998 has been well documented. No country was harder hit than Honduras, a nation of 5.8 million.

Issue 10, July 2000 (page 19)

Keeping schools open: school feeding in conflict and crisis

Summary of published paper.

Issue 17, November 2002 (page 10)

Lessons From SC UK Evaluation in DRC

Save the Children UK (SC UK) began implementing emergency health and nutrition interventions in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 1998, with initial activities in North and South Kivu and North Katanga.

Issue 22, July 2004 (page 22)

Letter challenging conclusions and analysis of Lancet Undernutrition Series, by Fiona Watson and Carmel Dolan

Letter.

Issue 33, June 2008 (page 26)

Letter on inadequate coverage of SAM in Lancet Undernutrition Series, by Susan Shepherd

Letter.

Issue 33, June 2008 (page 24)

Livestock Feeding Support as Drought Response

Summary of research.

Issue 32, January 2008 (page 9)

Malawi food shortage: how did it happen and could it have been prevented?

Malawi, like much of the rest of Southern Africa, is experiencing the threat of imminent famine.

Issue 16, August 2002 (page 21)

Prevalence of Anaemia Amongst Young Children in Argentina

This field article outlines the results of a nutritional study carried out by ACH in Argentina, which highlights how anaemia remains a public health issue, impacting on intellectual development in school age children.

Issue 26, November 2005 (page 17)

Risks of obtaining fuel in displaced populations

Summary of published letter.

Issue 17, November 2002 (page 8)

School Feeding Programme in Zambia

This article describes the experiences of a school-feeding programme supported by the World Food Programme through Project Concern International (PCI).

Issue 25, May 2005 (page 22)

Solar Cookers Come to Loki

Mark Thür, a Swiss National and resident Kenyan, arrived in Lokichokio at the invitation of UNICEF for the monthly nutrition meeting.

Issue 6, February 1999 (page 14)

Special Focus on Targeting

The recent spate of reports and articles on targeting emergency food aid shows the resurgence of interest in this subject.

Issue 8, November 1999 (page 3)