Category: Nutrition surveys

A fragile situation in Sudan: review of the 2001 nutritional situation

Issue 15, April 2002 (page 19)

A method for estimating mortality rates using previous birth history

This article proposes a practical method for estimating mortality in emergencies which includes a stepby- step guide to calculations and summarises the outcome of a field test carried out by Save the Children UK in Sudan early this year.

Issue 17, November 2002 (page 13)

A Review of the advances and challenges in nutrition in conflicts and crises over the last 20 years

This paper is a shortened version of the complete paper presented at the ACC/SCN Symposium on Nutrition in Conflicts and Crises in March 2002.

Issue 16, August 2002 (page 12)

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)

Addressing chronic malnutrition in South Sudan

Summary of technical paper.

Issue 31, September 2007 (page 6)

Addressing poverty and undernutrition in India

Summary of research.

Issue 37, November 2009 (page 9)

Advocacy from Eritrea: working with WFP

Save the Children UK have worked in Eritrea since 1957 and in 1992 a country office was established.

Issue 15, April 2002 (page 23)

Applying GIS to Nutrition Surveys

This article highlights the potential benefit, resource needs and constraints of applying Geographical Information Systems (GIS) analysis to a conventional nutritional survey dataset in a developing country or an emergency context.

Issue 26, November 2005 (page 30)

Assessing and defining food needs (Special Supplement 1)

There are three broad approaches in use for assessing the food needs of a population. These approaches are often used simultaneously in an assessment.

Supplement 1, July 2004 (page 7)

Assessing sensitivity of case-finding using capturerecapture techniques

In this article we will explore the use of capturerecapture techniques to estimate the sensitivity (also called exhaustivity) of two case-finding methods. The sensitivity of a case-finding method is a measure of how well the method performs at finding cases.

Issue 27, March 2006 (page 13)

Border Closures and Nutrition in Gaza

The political situation in the Gaza Strip has resulted in a high level of international media attention.

Issue 20, November 2003 (page 18)

Breastfeeding Support Groups in Tajikistan

This field article describes Action Against Hunger’s experiences with Breastfeeding Support Groups in Tajikistan.

Issue 30, April 2007 (page 11)

Can height-adjusted cut-offs improve MUAC’s utility as an assessment tool?

This field article looks at the relationship between MUAC and WH and finding that MUAC correlated most closely with W/H indices in shorter children, suggests the possibility of height specific MUAC cut-offs, distinguishing between assessment and screening.

Issue 30, April 2007 (page 23)

Chronic Malnutrition: a Problem not Addressed by SFPs

An Appeal for a Development Programme by MSF Spain in Mandera District, Kenya.

Issue 7, July 1999 (page 12)

Chronic vulnerability in Niger

Summary of published research.

Issue 29, December 2006 (page 9)

Comment on: Including infants in nutrition surveys

Perinatal mortality and birth-weight reflect the quality of the intrauterine environment and complications of birth.

Issue 9, March 2000 (page 16)

Contextual data collection in nutrition surveys in Ethiopia

Summary of analysis.

Issue 37, November 2009 (page 14)

DEC Sothern Africa Crisis Appeal

Summary of published report.

Issue 21, March 2004 (page 27)

Disparate responses to need in Southern Africa: a WFP perspective

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has worked for over 20 years in Angola delivering food aid to the neediest people, even during the country’s darkest days when heavy fighting meant food had to be airlifted to millions of embattled hungry people.

Issue 18, March 2003 (page 12)

Division Over Sanctions on Iraq

In the last issue of Field Exchange we published an article which focussed on the effects of sanctions on Iraq. The likely impact of the 'oil for food' deal on food security was discussed.

Issue 5, October 1998 (page 14)

Estimating the Target Under Five Population for Feeding Programmes in Emergencies

This article discusses the problem of accurately estimating the target population for the planning of emergency nutrition programmes and presents a tool developed by Save the Children UK aimed at improving the process.

Issue 23, November 2004 (page 18)

Evaluation of MSF Holland mission in Afghanistan

Summary of Evaluation.

Issue 20, November 2003 (page 20)

Evaluation of SCUK Emergency Nutrition Intervention in Malawi During 2002-2003

The 2001 harvest in Malawi was particularly poor and it was recognised by June/July that there would be a substantial maize deficit. Furthermore the grain reserve had been sold off, and the money from this reserve was ‘missing’.

Issue 24, March 2005 (page 20)

Evaluation of the Supplementary Feeding Programme carried out in Marsabit District, Kenya, April-November 1997

MSF implemented a nutrition rehabilitation programme in Marsabit District between April and November 1997, in response to the drought that affected north eastern Kenya in 1996.

Issue 4, June 1998 (page 27)

Field testing LQAS to assess acute malnutrition prevalence

Summary of published research.

Issue 31, September 2007 (page 5)

Food insecurity and child malnutrition in North Bangladesh

This article describes the experiences of a Swiss-based NGO, Tdh Fondation, on maternal and child nutrition programming in Bangladesh, and their observations around the impact of the food price crisis.

Issue 36, July 2009 (page 28)

Global Trends in Malnutrition

Summary of published paper.

Issue 23, November 2004 (page 5)

Impact of Emergency SFP in Guinea-Bissau

Published paper.

Issue 24, March 2005 (page 6)

Including infants in nutrition surveys

Guidelines on nutritional survey methodologies currently stipulate that children between 6 to 59 months should be surveyed.

Issue 9, March 2000 (page 15)

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)

Learning from nutrition interventions in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Kenya

Summary of evaluations.

Issue 18, March 2003 (page 23)

Lessons learnt from the 1998 Bangladesh floods

Bangladesh experienced the worst flood of the century between July - October 1998. Some 30 million persons were affected by the crisis.

Issue 11, December 2000 (page 19)

Letter on WHO 2006 Growth Standards, by Marko Kerac and Andrew Seal

This new 2006 WHO Growth standards: What will they mean for emergency nutrition programmes?.

Issue 28, July 2006 (page 16)

Methodology for a Nutritional Survey among the nomadic population of northern Mali

Acción contra el Hambre España (ACFE) has been working in Gao and Kidal, two regions in northern Mali, since 1996.

Issue 33, June 2008 (page 15)

Miscalculation of the Prevalence of Acute Malnutrition in Surveys with Oedematous Children

Unpublished paper.

Issue 24, March 2005 (page 8)

Mortality and nutrition surveys by NGOs

Summary of research.

Issue 32, January 2008 (page 7)

New method for assessing acute malnutrition in nomadic pastoralist populations

This article describes a new survey method for assessing acute malnutrition in nomadic pastoralist populations, including a case study from Mali.

Issue 35, March 2009 (page 31)

New Method for Estimating Programme Coverage

This article gives an overview of the coverage estimation method developed for the Community Therapeutic Care (CTC) Research Programme in Malawi.

Issue 21, March 2004 (page 11)

New Method for Estimating Programme Coverage (Special Supplement 2)

This article gives an overview of the coverage estimation method developed for the Community Therapeutic Care (CTC) Research Programme in Malawi.

Supplement 2, November 2004 (page 37)

Nutrition causal analysis: planning and credible advocacy

This article outlines some of the key components of nutrition casual analysis, and describes how this assessment method was successfully used to provide a multi-sectoral overview of factors affecting nutritional status within an urban community in Kenya.

Issue 18, March 2003 (page 24)

Nutrition in Commercial Farms Finding the right plaster for the wound

Children living in Large Scale Commercial Farms in Zimbabwe, most of which are owned by white farmers, have higher rates of undernutrition than children living in communal areas.

Issue 1, May 1997 (page 15)

Nutrition Surveillance in Somalia

Somalia has been without a central government for the past eleven years and has within its borders a number of areas that are highly vulnerable in terms of food insecurity.

Issue 14, November 2001 (page 12)

Nutritional status of children and pregnant and lactating women in relief camps in post-tsunami Sri Lanka

Summary of published research.

Issue 30, April 2007 (page 10)

Nutritional surveys in Iraq: a call for improved quality

Summary of published paper.

Issue 13, August 2001 (page 7)

Partnership and Disaster Response (and Post Script)

Save the Children Fund (SCF UK) has been working in Bangladesh since the Bhola cyclone of 1970.

Issue 6, February 1999 (page 12)

Piloting LQAS in Somaliland

This article presents a pilot study1 conducted in Somaliland by the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation Food Security Analysis Unit, (FAO/FSAU). It uses the Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) method to assess the nutritional situation and compares the results to a 30x30 cluster survey conducted simultaneously in the same sample population.

Issue 33, June 2008 (page 27)

Postscript on measuring mortality rates in cross-sectional surveys: a commentary

Congratulations to Mark Myatt, Anna Taylor, and W. Courtland Robinson for bringing into the light of rational scientific discourse the subject of estimating mortality rates using crosssectional surveys.

Issue 17, November 2002 (page 16)

Postscript to 'Outbreak of micronutrient deficiency disease'. By Emma Naylor, Oxfam GB

WFP Kenya would like to address some of the points made in the article entitled, “Outbreak of micronutrient deficiency disease: Did we respond appropriately?” by Dianne Stevens et al. of Save the Children (UK).

Issue 12, April 2001 (page 18)

Postscript to 'The challenge of applying CSAS in DRC'

The CSAS coverage survey method is new and much remains to be learned from field application of the method, particularly in confused terrain, such as that described in the current article, as well as in urban settings.

Issue 27, March 2006 (page 31)

Review of survey methodology in emergencies

Summary of published research.

Issue 31, September 2007 (page 10)

Scurvy outbreak and erosion of livelihoods masked by low wasting levels in drought affected Northern Afghanistan

Kohistan is one of the most remote districts of Faryab Province in Afghanistan. It is in the south of the province bordering Badghis and Ghor provinces and is an eight-hour car journey from the provincial capital of Maimana to the district capital Bandar.

Issue 13, August 2001 (page 14)

Seasonal patterns of weight for age: Zimbabwe

Summary of published paper.

Issue 15, April 2002 (page 5)

Technical consultation on Emergency Needs Assessment

Summary of proceedings of meeting.

Issue 19, July 2003 (page 27)

The danger of interpreting anthropometric data out of context

The Concern programme in North Eastern Afghanistan (in non-Taliban held areas) has been operational since 1998 in two provinces Badakshan with a population of 842,702 and Takhar with a population of 883,910.

Issue 14, November 2001 (page 22)

The dangers of rapid assessment

I was recently in Northern Darfur, Sudan, where SCF-UK had employed me to analyse and present data from five nutritional surveys and combine this with food security / economy data collected by their early warning system (EWS).

Issue 13, August 2001 (page 18)

The dangers of rapid assessment

Note This article was already published in Field Exchange 13, unfortunately due to a printing problem, the end of the article flowed off the page. Therefore we reproduce the full text of the article here. We apologise for the error.

Issue 14, November 2001 (page 28)

The Pakistan Earthquake Survey: Methodological Lessons Learned

On October 8, 2005 a strong earthquake - said to be the most powerful in the region in 500 years - hit the northeastern part of Pakistan. The result was massive destruction and catastrophic mortality, primarily in the upper Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and in Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK).

Issue 28, July 2006 (page 26)