Category: Supplementary feeding
The current conflict in Darfur, Sudan started in 2003. Since then, large-scale violence has decreased but fighting and attacks continue over large parts of the territory despite ongoing peace building efforts.
Issue 33, June 2008 (page 31)
The first Field Exchange carried an article about the CSFP in Zimbabwe: Nutrition in commercial farms; finding the right plaster for the wound. Since then the findings of a MOH/UNICEF evaluation of the programme between 1995-6 following the severe drought of 1994-5, have been published. Before summarising these findings a brief description of this programme is in order. .
Issue 2, August 1997 (page 22)
Summary of published research.
Issue 36, July 2009 (page 10)
In the absence of guidelines to govern the marketing of ready to use supplemental foods (RUSFs), members of the UNSCN NGO/CSO constituency drafted a guidance to specifically address this in 2010.
Issue 41, August 2011 (page 48)
Supplementary Feeding Programmes (SFPs) are amongst the oldest and most common type of nutritional intervention in developing countries. The main aim of SFPs in both emergency and non-emergency situations is to prevent mortality due to malnutrition amongst groups who are considered to be most at risk.
Issue 2, August 1997 (page 3)
Ethiopia has one of the highest under five mortality rates of all developing countries, due largely to the combined effect of a high incidence of infectious diseases and inadequate infant and young child nutrition.
Issue 40, February 2011 (page 8)
Summary of Evaluation.
Issue 20, November 2003 (page 20)
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)
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)
Summary of meeting abstract.
Issue 34, October 2008 (page 9)
As highlighted in the recent large-scale retrospective review of emergency supplementary feeding programmes conducted by the ENN and SC UK, a significant number of children in these programmes fail to respond to treatment.
Issue 34, October 2008 (page 24)
The summary below is based upon a near final draft of the new MSF guidelines.1 The guidelines may therefore undergo some revision before publication. Furthermore, it should be noted that certain important aspects of these draft guidelines do not conform with other currently employed guidelines (Eds).
Issue 12, April 2001 (page 26)
In Hlaing Thayer township, Yangon, Burma, ORWs were spending a considerable amount of time doing weight and height measurements on all children visited, in order to refer less than 1% to the therapeutic feeding programme.
Issue 4, June 1998 (page 24)
Summary of Conference Presentation.
Issue 2, August 1997 (page 14)
Summary of published research.
Issue 37, November 2009 (page 10)
Dessie Zuria is one of 21 woredas (districts) in South Wollo Zone of Amhara Region, Northern Ethiopia. The nutrition situation in Dessie Zuria has remained at ‘serious’ levels for the past 10 years, with the global acute malnutrition (GAM) rate only once dropping below 10% (cut off advised by Ethiopian guidelines to classify an emergency situation) in 2004 in the presence of an emergency feeding programme.
Issue 40, February 2011 (page 44)
Published paper.
Issue 24, March 2005 (page 6)
This article is based on a report written by Dominique Brunet which was, in turn, based on the findings of research undertaken by Save the Children UK in DRC.
Issue 26, November 2005 (page 7)
Published Paper.
Issue 10, July 2000 (page 4)
In April 2011, the International Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements (iLiNS) Project hosted the second international LNS Research Network Meeting in Washington DC, the first of which was held in Rome in 2009. The key presentations and issues arising are summarised here.
Issue 41, August 2011 (page 14)
Summary of published review.
Issue 11, December 2000 (page 5)
On November the 13th the Food and Agricultural Institute at the University of Lille presented its work to date on the development of a low cost extrusion technology and the progress made on its potential application in emergency situations.
Issue 3, January 1998 (page 16)
Summary of research.
Issue 37, November 2009 (page 13)
Summary of unpublished research.
Issue 26, November 2005 (page 16)
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Issue 2, August 1997 (page 7)
This article raises most of the points I would want to make about the prison feeding programme in Rwanda. I will therefore mainly confine myself to providing a little more background and reiterate points that I think are most important. .
Issue 2, August 1997 (page 5)
Angola has been at war for almost 3 decades. This has had a profound influence at all levels of the country’s infrastructure: economic, social, public, commercial, political and military.
Issue 10, July 2000 (page 17)
Summary of Internal MSF Holland Evaluation.
Issue 4, June 1998 (page 28)
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)
Central Mandera is located in northeastern Kenya, 2 km west of Somalia and 5 km south of the Ethiopian border.
Issue 6, February 1999 (page 26)
Summary of research.
Issue 18, March 2003 (page 9)
Various guidelines.
Issue 2, August 1997 (page 24)
Summary of published research.
Issue 29, December 2006 (page 13)
This article describes the impact of a food distribution programme targeting households of malnourished women and children in northern Afghanistan.
Issue 20, November 2003 (page 22)
The Enhanced Outreach Strategy (EOS)/Targeted Supplementary Food (TSF) for Child Survival is a joint programme under the United Nation Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF, 2007-2011) with the Government of Ethiopia.
Issue 40, February 2011 (page 76)
This article presents Meds & Food for Kids, an independent local producer of therapeutic and supplementary foods in Haiti, and its pursuit of accreditation as a manufacturer of Ready to Use Therapeutic Food and acceptance in international supply chains. This story serves as a backdrop to a wider conversation on the viability of the national production model for Ready to Use Foods, and the obstacles and opportunities that are present for specialised manufacturing in developing world contexts.
Issue 39, September 2010 (page 10)
The ‘Minimum Reporting Package’ (MRP) has been developed to support standardised data collection for emergency Supplementary Feeding Programmes (SFPs).
Issue 43, July 2012 (page 66)
Summary of evaluation.
Issue 32, January 2008 (page 24)
Summary of meeting.
Issue 35, March 2009 (page 24)