Category: Conflict
Merlin started working in Sierra Leone in 1996 in response to health and nutritional crises caused by the civil war and is currently supporting programmes in both Kenema District in the East of the country and in Freetown.
Issue 11, December 2000 (page 21)
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Issue 15, April 2002 (page 19)
“If you look at the past year or so, you could blame the Taliban, but you must look to the roots of the crisis” - Anuradha Mittall, Institute for Food and Development Policy, based in Washington.
Issue 14, November 2001 (page 11)
Published paper.
Issue 7, July 1999 (page 8)
Summary of published research.
Issue 39, September 2010 (page 22)
This field article describes ACF’s experiences1 in Serbia where vulnerability assessment findings were used to inform, and hopefully influence, activities and social policy at a local and national level in Serbia.
Issue 19, July 2003 (page 30)
The political situation in the Gaza Strip has resulted in a high level of international media attention.
Issue 20, November 2003 (page 18)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 21, March 2004 (page 5)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 26, November 2005 (page 15)
I began working as a volunteer nutritionist for an international non-governmental organisation (INGO) in July 2000.
Issue 12, April 2001 (page 9)
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)
Summary of published research.
Issue 36, July 2009 (page 8)
Summary of published research.
Issue 29, December 2006 (page 6)
Summary of evaluation.
Issue 28, July 2006 (page 20)
ACF and ECHO (European Commission Humanitarian Office) undertook a joint evaluation of the ACF therapeutic feeding programme in Burundi in November 1998.
Issue 8, November 1999 (page 27)
The recently dominant models for UN and NGO interventions in Afghanistan have been food for work (FFW), food for asset creation (FoodAC), and food for education (FFE).
Issue 14, November 2001 (page 2)
This article shares the positive experiences and challenges of wet food programming in the urban setting of Mogadishu, Somalia, where there is ongoing and escalating insecurity and little alternative to meet the needs of a population in acute need.
Issue 37, November 2009 (page 3)
Bararud lies about 40 miles north west of Wau town in the Bahr el Ghazal region of Southern Sudan.
Issue 7, July 1999 (page 3)
A review.
Issue 13, August 2001 (page 3)
Summary of published research.
Issue 27, March 2006 (page 7)
Over the past five years SCF have been working on a research programme to develop a famine early warning tool called 'Risk Mapping'.
Issue 1, May 1997 (page 11)
A civil war has been raging in Sudan for over 17 years since 1983 with fighting between the Government of Sudan in the North and various rebel factions in the South.
Issue 11, December 2000 (page 8)
Published paper.
Issue 6, February 1999 (page 9)
Between 1995 and 1997, Ikafe and Imvepi settlements in Arua District, North Uganda, accommodated around 55,000 refugees from Southern Sudan. The long term objective of both refugee programmes was to move towards self-reliance within a period of 5 years.
Issue 2, August 1997 (page 10)
On the 27th May 2006 a strong earthquake had a devastating impact on two provinces on Java Island in Indonesia killing 5,778 people. Major infrastructural damage left 3.2 million people affected.
Issue 29, December 2006 (page 3)
Under article 41 of the United Nations Charter, the UN Security Council (UNSC) may call upon member states to apply measures not involving the use of armed force, in order to maintain or restore international peace and security.
Issue 4, June 1998 (page 11)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 17, November 2002 (page 10)
In 2001, Concern initiated a 3-year action research project on microfinance, funded by the Department for International Development-UK, and involving qualitative research in Angola, Cambodia, Mozambique and Rwanda.
Issue 20, November 2003 (page 3)
Summary of published research.
Issue 29, December 2006 (page 11)
Summary of unpublished study.
Issue 27, March 2006 (page 8)
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)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 17, November 2002 (page 3)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 15, April 2002 (page 4)
The last three years have witnessed a severe deterioration in the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.
Issue 20, November 2003 (page 20)
The UNICEF Framework of Underlying Causes of Malnutrition and Mortality identifies three underlying factors that influence nutritional status: food security, mother and childcare, and public health.
Issue 9, March 2000 (page 8)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 21, March 2004 (page 5)
Summary of published research.
Issue 33, June 2008 (page 9)
Published paper.
Issue 24, March 2005 (page 10)
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)
Summary of published research.
Issue 37, November 2009 (page 12)
As the millennium draws to a close, memories of the appalling man-made famine in southern Sudan last year are hard to erase.
Issue 8, November 1999 (page 20)
Summary of published research.
Issue 39, September 2010 (page 12)
We asked WFP to comment on this article. The comments below were written by Amir Abdulla and members of the WFP Uganda programme as well as Peter Dijkhuizen of WFP Rome.
Issue 2, August 1997 (page 11)
This article serves to both construct a chronology of events in and around Kisangani between May and September 1997 and a socio-political analysis of those events. Having read the article we would like to add further information.
Issue 3, January 1998 (page 14)
We asked Yvonne Grellety of ACF to comment on this article. A summary of her comments follow: Rather than responding to the specific experience described in the article, I would like to respond to some of the more general issues and principals that this very interesting article raises. I will draw from the considerable experience that ACF have of working in insecure areas.
Issue 2, August 1997 (page 18)
Research in progress.
Issue 9, March 2000 (page 4)
Still bearing the brunt of a 30-year civil war, millions of Angolans are facing severe food and fuel shortages, artillery attacks on many of the main cities, and the terror of being caught between two warring forces.
Issue 8, November 1999 (page 5)
Late last year, nutritionist Grace Abu, visited the Rhino Refugee camp in Northern Uganda for a two day period to see family and friends.
Issue 5, October 1998 (page 16)
Implementation of selective feeding programmes in highly insecure environments can throw up a number of difficult operational challenges. In this article GOAL describe specific challenges related to default and programme monitoring and their attempts to address these (Ed).
Issue 23, November 2004 (page 20)
Summary of article.
Issue 16, August 2002 (page 5)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 22, July 2004 (page 6)
In the course of Sudan's long civil war it has become easy to create famine, easy both for the government and for factions in the south of the country once in rebellion against the government, but now allied with it against the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), the surviving core of the southern rebel movement.
Issue 4, June 1998 (page 20)
This article describes MSF-Spain’s field experience in the detection and management of a suspected outbreak of beriberi in Angola.
Issue 20, November 2003 (page 26)
Summary of case studies.
Issue 35, March 2009 (page 13)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 6, February 1999 (page 10)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 9, March 2000 (page 5)
Summary of unpublished paper.
Issue 16, August 2002 (page 11)
The author of this article, Steve Collins is a medical doctor. During the autumn of 1996 he was Oxfam's health team leader in Liberia. This article is based upon his experiences during this period, while setting up a wet feeding programme in the village of Vonzula, situated in Grand Cape Mount county of Liberia. It highlights the need for an adequate assessment of the local patterns of disease before establishing wet feeding programmes.
Issue 3, January 1998 (page 4)
Liberia has a history of virtually continuous civil war since 1989. Some say that 75% of the population of 2 million are or have been displaced during that time. The most recent agreement between the warring factions (Abuja Accord 2, signed in August 1996) allowed for disarmament (Nov. 22 '96 to Jan. 31 '97) followed by elections which resulted in the election of Charles Taylor as President.
Issue 2, August 1997 (page 17)