Category: Nutrition interventions

A food-based strategy to improve nutrition in emergencies

Since February 2000 the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has been implementing a project to improve household food security through home gardening and nutrition education in southern Somalia.

Issue 13, August 2001 (page 24)

Beyond the indicators - Assessing project impact on children’s lives

In humanitarian work, how do we know that we are positively reaching distinct members of a community? When we calculate beneficiary households, can we be sure that everyone in the household is really benefiting? And is it clear to what extent they are benefiting?.

Issue 40, February 2011 (page 32)

Community care: addressing the management of severe malnutrition

Summary of published paper.

Issue 14, November 2001 (page 4)

Completing the Jigsaw Puzzle: Joint Assessment Missions (JAM)

Food security continues to be a challenging and often elusive possibility for many of the almost 2 million camp-based refugees worldwide.

Issue 40, February 2011 (page 50)

Did the Rwandan Evaluation Change anything?

A report by the Joint Evaluation Follow-up Monitoring and Facilitation Network (JEFF).

Issue 4, June 1998 (page 29)

Factors influencing deviance in growth of children in rural West Bengal

Summary of MSc Thesis.

Issue 18, March 2003 (page 7)

From the editor

Ethiopia is a diverse country where a significant proportion of the population live on or below the poverty line, where food insecurity is widespread and rates of acute malnutrition are often at or above the international threshold that defines an emergency situation.

Issue 40, February 2011 (page 4)

Involving communities in nutritional screening in Ethiopia

The International Nutrition Foundation (INF), in collaboration with the United Nations University (UNU) with funding from the Micronutrient Initiative (MI) will establish the Iron Deficiency Project Advisory Service (IDPAS).

Issue 12, April 2001 (page 10)

Market-led Livelihood Recovery and Enhancement Programme and integrating ENAs

Food for the Hungry Ethiopia (FHE) began working in Ethiopia in 1984 through aid efforts in response to the famine at that time. In the beginning, FHE operated through partner organisations, delivering emergency food aid to those affected by the famine.

Issue 40, February 2011 (page 57)

Nutrition intervention in crisis some worrying practices

During recent field work (notably in Burundi), I came across certain worrying practices in the emergency nutrition sector.

Issue 16, August 2002 (page 28)

Nutritional Risk Factors in Older Refugees

Summary of published paper.

Issue 21, March 2004 (page 8)

Rapid impact on malnutrition through a multi-faceted programme in Wolayita, Southern Ethiopia

Most people have heard of the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention - known as CDC.

Issue 12, April 2001 (page 19)

Revisiting Sphere: new standards of service delivery for new trends in protracted displacement

Summary of research.

Issue 41, August 2011 (page 18)

Simulation model to estimate micronutrient levels in fortified blended foods

Summary of published research.

Issue 39, September 2010 (page 18)

Social marketing of a nutritional supplement in Niger

This article shares some experiences of the company, Nutriset, in applying a social marketing approach to assess the affordability of a micronutrient supplement for 1-5 year olds to low income mothers in Niamey, Niger.

Issue 35, March 2009 (page 28)

Temporal Integration - Demand driven CTC (Special Supplement 2)

Early CTC programmes prioritised the timely provision of an appropriate level of care to a large proportion of the target population and monitored this using the standard SPHERE indicators plus assessments of coverage.

Supplement 2, November 2004 (page 53)

The experience of multi-storey gardens in Ethiopian refugee camps

Ethiopia hosts around 112,201 refugees. Approximately 1,564 reside as urban refugees, while the remainder live in eight different refugee camps. The majority of refugees are of Somali (K/Beyah, Shedr, Awbarre and Boqolmayo), Sudanese (Fugnido and Sherkole) and Eritrean (Mayani, Asayta and Shimelba) nationalities.

Issue 40, February 2011 (page 36)

WHO/UNICEF/WFP/UNHCR informal consultation on moderate malnutrition management in U5’s

Summary of meeting.

Issue 35, March 2009 (page 24)