Category: Programme effectiveness
Summary of published paper.
Issue 34, October 2008 (page 26)
Summary of published research.
Issue 22, July 2004 (page 5)
Save the Children USA (SC-US) implemented an emergency health and nutrition programme in Sidama zone of SNNP region of Ethiopia, in response to the 2003 food crisis.
Supplement 2, November 2004 (page 30)
Arecent LANCET article1 estimates the cost of delivering comprehensive child survival interventions in 42 countries where 90% of global child deaths occurred in 2000.
Issue 27, March 2006 (page 11)
This article describes the experiences of an MSF-B nutritional project in Faryab that was forced by cultural and geographical constraints to treat children with severe acute malnutrition as outpatients.
Issue 19, July 2003 (page 16)
Faryab province is in a remote and poor area in the north of Afghanistan. There is little infrastructure, a high risk of disease outbreaks such as cholera and measles, and malnutrition is endemic.
Issue 19, July 2003 (page 14)
Bundibugyo District, situated on the western side of the Rwenzori Mountains, is one of the most disadvantaged districts in Uganda.
Issue 33, June 2008 (page 35)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 23, November 2004 (page 5)
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)
Case Studies.
Supplement 2, November 2004 (page 14)
Summary of draft review.
Issue 12, April 2001 (page 8)
A three day meeting was held in Dublin hosted by Concern and Valid International between 8-10th of October, 2003 on community-based treatment1 of the severely malnourished.
Issue 21, March 2004 (page 16)
Summary of published research.
Issue 19, July 2003 (page 6)
Unpublished report.
Issue 10, July 2000 (page 6)
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Issue 34, October 2008 (page 43)
Summary of Published Paper.
Issue 2, August 1997 (page 12)
Tearfund has been working in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, southern Sudan, in the nutrition sector since 1998.
Supplement 2, November 2004 (page 28)
In December 2002, nutrition surveys carried out by Concern Worldwide, in collaboration with Amhara Region Disasters, Preparedness and Prevention Bureau (DPPB), reported acute malnutrition levels of 17.2% global malnutrition and 3.1% severe malnutrition (based on weight for height in z scores) in Kalu and Dessie Zuria districts, South Wollo. .
Supplement 2, November 2004 (page 14)
North Darfur state lies 1000 km to the west of Khartoum. It is an area the size of France but is inhabited by only 1.4 million people.
Supplement 2, November 2004 (page 22)
In 2003 both Concern Worldwide and Tearfund asked Valid International to support them in the setting-up of CTC programmes to address high rates of acute malnutrition in South Sudan.
Supplement 2, November 2004 (page 25)
This article describes the ongoing challenges that insecurity poses to the GOAL nutrition programme in Dafur and the strategies they have responded with.
Issue 28, July 2006 (page 10)
A report by the Joint Evaluation Follow-up Monitoring and Facilitation Network (JEFF).
Issue 4, June 1998 (page 29)
Save the Children UK (SC UK) is currently involved in trying to assess the level of impact and cost-effectiveness of different interventions designed to reduce rates of chronic malnutrition in a number of countries, including Somalia,Vietnam and Ethiopia.
Issue 27, March 2006 (page 22)
Food may be distributed in many different ways but the method of distribution will, to a large extent, depend on the eligible groups and the method for identifying them. Distribution points may be developed using existing buildings, e.g. health centres, schools.
Supplement 1, July 2004 (page 17)
Summary of published article.
Issue 27, March 2006 (page 7)
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)
Published Evaluation.
Issue 10, July 2000 (page 14)
Summary of meeting abstract.
Issue 34, October 2008 (page 9)
Summary of Conference Presentation.
Issue 2, August 1997 (page 14)
The World Food Programme (WFP) have just secured funding to implement a pilot study to try out a 'containerised' milling unit at refugee camp level.
Issue 5, October 1998 (page 13)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 20, November 2003 (page 10)
This article describes a modification of the centric systematic area sampling method using GPS, to overcome field constraints related to mapping and active case finding.
Issue 35, March 2009 (page 36)
Action Contre la Faim (ACF) has been working in Afghanistan since 1995. The nutrition programme in Kabul includes three therapeutic feeding centres (TFC) within paediatric hospitals in the city, and a network of smaller TFCs providing care close to the population.
Issue 24, March 2005 (page 18)
In July 2006, ACF-USA implemented an out-patient programme for the treatment of severely malnourished children in the main internally displaced people (IDP) camps of the districts of Lira and Apac, Northern Uganda.
Issue 34, October 2008 (page 15)
This article presents the results of a survey that took place in December 2006 to assess the coverage of a community-based programme and discusses the implications of the fi ndings.
Issue 31, September 2007 (page 11)
Summary of evaluation.
Issue 29, December 2006 (page 31)
It is being recognised more and more that we need to improve the ways in which we measure and document emergency programme efficiency.
Issue 1, May 1997 (page 11)
The Micronutrient Initiative of Canada commissioned a study which employed a team from the Refugee Policy Group. The study involved, a mission to East Africa to examine how food aid for refugees and other emergency affected populations could be fortified using in-country processes.
Issue 5, October 1998 (page 9)
The HIV pandemic sweeping southern Africa and other parts of sub- Saharan Africa is increasingly being perceived and described as a chronic emergency.
Issue 22, July 2004 (page 26)
In February 2002, the Malawi government declared a national nutritional emergency and the UN launched an international appeal for emergency assistance.
Supplement 2, November 2004 (page 19)
This supplement presents a collection of articles written by people who have been involved in Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC) programmes.
Supplement 2, November 2004 (page 4)
Summary of published research.
Issue 29, December 2006 (page 8)
During 1998 and early 1999 the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbian) forces increased their efforts to ‘ethnically cleanse’ Kosovo.
Issue 11, December 2000 (page 24)
Summary of evaluations.
Issue 18, March 2003 (page 23)
Letters.
Issue 29, December 2006 (page 37)
Letter.
Issue 33, June 2008 (page 24)
This new 2006 WHO Growth standards: What will they mean for emergency nutrition programmes?.
Issue 28, July 2006 (page 16)
Summary of published review.
Issue 11, December 2000 (page 5)
Logistics play a central role in the provision of emergency assistance. The logistics machine includes the procurement, transport, storage and delivery of emergency, and possibly life saving material, to areas affected by disaster.
Issue 4, June 1998 (page 13)
By canonizing traditional and cultural restrictions on women and girls into official policy and law, the Taliban leadership of Afghanistan has created the most notorious example in the world of state denial of basic rights of women and girls.
Issue 7, July 1999 (page 21)
Maslakh camp is located approximately 20 km from Herat in Western Afghanistan. A period of drought and conflict in the region led to large numbers of IDPs moving into the camp in late 2000.
Issue 16, August 2002 (page 18)
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)
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)
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)
Summary of internal evaluation by Anna Taylor (headquarters nutrition advisor for SC UK).
Issue 16, August 2002 (page 26)
Summary of report.
Issue 33, June 2008 (page 30)
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)
Summary of evaluation.
Issue 32, January 2008 (page 26)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 25, May 2005 (page 9)
Summary of unpublished paper.
Issue 24, March 2005 (page 11)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 4, June 1998 (page 28)
This article presents a strong case from Niger that managing severe malnutrition on a large scale through outpatient treatment is a real possibility.
Issue 28, July 2006 (page 3)
CONCERN is currently providing a supplementary wet-ration to over 7,500 detainees in twelve cachots (commune level detention centres) in Rwanda. The objective of this supplementary feeding programme is to reduce the burden of food provision on the families of the detainees and, indirectly, to assist households to become food secure.
Issue 2, August 1997 (page 4)
The coverage and default rate in selective feeding programmes are taken as proxies of the accessibility and acceptability of these programmes. This article by Fabienne Vautier describes the problems of low coverage and high default rates in Therapeutic and Supplementary feeding programmes run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Belgium in Wadjir in Kenya.
Issue 5, October 1998 (page 17)
This field article explores the socio-cultural determinants of food sharing amongst the Dinka of Southern Sudan and explores the implications for humanitarian programming.
Issue 32, January 2008 (page 22)
Centric Systematic Area Sampling (CSAS) was developed to estimate coverage of selective feeding programmes.
Issue 33, June 2008 (page 3)
Below are short summaries of the recently launched Lancet series of papers on Maternal and Child Undernutrition.
Issue 33, June 2008 (page 12)
This article outlines a short term emergency safety net programme by Save the Children UK, using a combination of food and cash transfers to households during a national food crisis in Swaziland.
Issue 36, July 2009 (page 3)
Programme coverage has become an increasingly important indicator for measuring the success of humanitarian interventions.
Issue 27, March 2006 (page 29)
The aim of this paper is to present the cost per beneficiary of CTC and discuss aspects of these costs, underlying assumptions and other factors and issues affecting cost.
Supplement 2, November 2004 (page 39)
Questioning the evidence behind World Bank-funded community nutrition projects in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Uganda, key findings of the Save the Children UK report, Thin on the Ground, were presented at the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition meeting in Chennai, India in March 2003.
Issue 19, July 2003 (page 6)