Category: Vulnerable populations
Summary of published paper.
Issue 9, March 2000 (page 4)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 18, March 2003 (page 8)
Generally, emergency interventions are conceptualised as having an impact on nutritional status through a combination of strengthening food security, health service provision and providing or supporting caring practices.
Issue 4, June 1998 (page 4)
A key component of the WFP programme in Myanmar has been community based targeting (CBT) as part of the vulnerable group feeding (VGF).
Issue 26, November 2005 (page 26)
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)
The Kosovo crisis and its deluge of refugees to neighbouring states have probably filled more television screens and newspaper column inches per day than any other political crisis of which refugees were a major part.
Issue 7, July 1999 (page 14)
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Issue 14, November 2001 (page 16)
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)
Summary of report.
Issue 14, November 2001 (page 15)
Summary of published research.
Issue 27, March 2006 (page 7)
Summary of published field trial.
Issue 33, June 2008 (page 8)
This article outlines an intervention by ACF in Dadaab to improve the nutritional intake and dietary diversity of the refugee population of Dadaab, Kenya, through a complementary food voucher scheme targeted at malnourished children.
Issue 36, July 2009 (page 20)
Over the past five years SCF UK have been working on a research programme to develop a famine early warning tool called Risk Mapping.
Issue 1, May 1997 (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)
Since the 1990s, Liberia, Sierra Leone and later on the Ivory Coast, have been embroiled in conflict. This has led to a mass exodus of refugees to neighbouring countries, particularly Guinea, which has received 150,000 people.
Supplement 3, March 2006 (page 33)
Cynically it is unfortunate that the "hunger " problem in India is not primarily one of mass starvation which would attract international attention but rather one of widespread state of malnutrition which has been so common for years that it leaves the International community indifferent.
Issue 4, June 1998 (page 23)
Summary of published research.
Issue 28, July 2006 (page 7)
Summary of Published Letter.
Issue 9, March 2000 (page 3)
In 1998, UNICEF initiated a supplementary feeding program for pregnant women in the Kigoma/Kagera refugee program of Western Tanzania.
Issue 12, April 2001 (page 25)
I would like to comment on the article "Household Food Economy Assessment in Kakuma Refugee Camp" (Field Exchange, Issue 1, May 97).
Issue 3, January 1998 (page 20)
We refer to the Article by Vanessa Tilstone “Older people, Nutrition and emergencies in Ethiopia” (issue number 14, November 2001).
Issue 15, April 2002 (page 10)
Summary of research.
Issue 32, January 2008 (page 9)
Summary of research.
Issue 37, November 2009 (page 13)
The upsurge of violence in Eastern Zaire towards the end of 1996 led to an influx of Zairian refugees into the Kigoma area of Tanzania.
Issue 1, May 1997 (page 20)
recent paper reviews the research over the last 10 years investigating whether there is an association between maternal depression and infant growth impairment.
Issue 34, October 2008 (page 36)
Summary of published research.
Issue 27, March 2006 (page 12)
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)
Summary of published research.
Issue 35, March 2009 (page 12)
The authors examine the role of milk in the diets of children in pastoralist communities in Ethiopia, including the links between seasonal availability of milk with child nutritional status and priority interventions to address this.
Issue 38, April 2010 (page 10)
Summary of online published paper.
Issue 18, March 2003 (page 9)
Summary of published presentation.
Issue 17, November 2002 (page 12)
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)
Summary of unpublished report.
Issue 23, November 2004 (page 6)
Oxfam’s Somaliland-Ethiopia Cross Border Drought Preparedness Project is implemented as a component of Oxfam GB’s 15-year regional pastoral initiative that covers six countries in the Horn and East Africa.
Issue 40, February 2011 (page 14)
The Philippines lies along the typhoon belt of the Western Pacific, making it prone to various hydro-meteorological hazards.
Issue 34, October 2008 (page 38)
Summary of report.
Issue 18, March 2003 (page 4)
During the period 2006 through the present, CARE, UNHCR, GTZ, IRC, NCCK and other partners have worked in an interagency collaboration (the Dadaab IYCF Team) to provide support for improved infant and young child feeding (IYCF) in the Dadaab Camps.
Issue 36, July 2009 (page 23)
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)
Summary of published report.
Issue 22, July 2004 (page 6)
The findings of a participatory assessment of Burundian and Rwandan refugee perceptions of the quality of health services in camps in Ngara, Tanzania is reported in a recent article in Disasters.
Issue 27, March 2006 (page 11)
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Issue 3, January 1998 (page 22)
Summary of research.
Issue 41, August 2011 (page 18)
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)
Summary of Published Paper.
Issue 4, June 1998 (page 6)
We find Mr. Gettier’s letter concerning our article, “Sales of food aid as sign of distress, not excess” (Field Exchange Issue 4), distressing.
Issue 6, February 1999 (page 21)
Summary of Internal MSF Holland Evaluation.
Issue 4, June 1998 (page 28)
We have been working as field monitors on the Oxfam Community Situation Indicator (CSI) project in the Red Sea State (RSS) for over four years.
Issue 7, July 1999 (page 16)
Having spent the last few years working as a field nutritionist with an NGO and with a background in paediatric dietetics, the opportunity to carry out some infant feeding research was my picture of the perfect job.
Issue 9, March 2000 (page 12)
Over 200000 Rwandan refugees crossed the border into Tanzania in a 24 hour period following the tragic genocide in early 1994. Refugees walked through Rosomo Bridge to Ngara district which is 20 kms away from the border.
Issue 3, January 1998 (page 18)
Emergency general rations supplied by the international aid community have frequently failed to supply adequate amounts of micro- nutrients for refugees and Internally Displaced People (IDP).
Issue 1, May 1997 (page 11)
Published Paper.
Issue 7, July 1999 (page 9)
Nutritional deficiency epidemics are all highly predictable. Softwares are now available to flag nutrients missing in a ration, making epidemic prediction easy. Indeed, there is no excuse for being taken by surprise by a deficiency disease epidemic.
Issue 21, March 2004 (page 14)
This article describes vulnerability mapping carried out by ACF in Kabul, and how it has been used to inform programming and tailor interventions in the field.
Issue 22, July 2004 (page 20)
During the last two weeks of August 1998 it hardly rained in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
Issue 7, July 1999 (page 22)
WFP recently commissioned an evaluation of the 1990- 1995 'period of WFP emergency operations in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Cote dIvoire.
Issue 1, May 1997 (page 19)