Category: Emergencies
In June 2004 continuous rains were at the origin of large landslides and floods in the South East of Haiti, which cause loss of human lives, and destruction of houses, and infrastructures.
Supplement 3, March 2006 (page 41)
It is extremely difficult to address urban food emergencies through traditional general ration programmes. The logistic and targeting challenges are particularly daunting. The market support programme described in this article demonstrates an alternative type of intervention which circumvents many of these difficulties. This type of programme may also be suited to certain rural contexts and may offer a model for future programming (Ed).
Issue 23, November 2004 (page 3)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 34, October 2008 (page 26)
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)
“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)
Summary of published research.
Issue 25, May 2005 (page 10)
Summary of published research.
Issue 25, May 2005 (page 9)
Summary of report.
Issue 35, March 2009 (page 8)
Following the devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean on 26th December 2005, Oxfam GB scaled up its activities in Sri Lanka and opened an office in the southern province of the country.
Supplement 3, March 2006 (page 31)
Summary of working paper.
Issue 41, August 2011 (page 19)
Summary of published research.
Issue 29, December 2006 (page 9)
This article provides an overview of a novel method developed by Save the Children UK to calculate the cost of an ideal diet, with results from two case studies and a discussion of the limitations to the approach and intended next steps for its development.
Issue 34, October 2008 (page 21)
Howell. P (1998), Disasters, Volume 22, No 1, March 1998, pp57-76 The following is a summary of a paper recently published in Disasters. The views expressed are those of the author. .
Issue 4, June 1998 (page 7)
Summary of Published paper.
Issue 10, July 2000 (page 5)
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)
Summary of research.
Issue 38, April 2010 (page 7)
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Issue 14, November 2001 (page 16)
This overview of the current situation in the DPRK and its context, was researched and written for Field Exchange by Killian Forde with editorial assistance from Lola Gostelow (formerly Nathanail) SCF (UK) and Anna Taylor, Sphere Project. The provision by agencies of information and resources used to construct this article is gratefully acknowledged. Reports and other source materials used to write this piece are available from the ENN.
Issue 3, January 1998 (page 10)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 22, July 2004 (page 7)
Summary of report.
Issue 36, July 2009 (page 7)
Summary of published research.
Issue 35, March 2009 (page 14)
Summary of published research.
Issue 36, July 2009 (page 11)
Summary of published research.
Issue 28, July 2006 (page 6)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 20, November 2003 (page 9)
Summary of book review.
Issue 32, January 2008 (page 8)
Summary of research.
Issue 41, August 2011 (page 16)
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)
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)
Afghanistan is a country of breathtaking beauty inhabited by poets and warriors.
Issue 15, April 2002 (page 7)
Summary of editorial.
Issue 16, August 2002 (page 5)
Summary of published research.
Issue 35, March 2009 (page 9)
In recent months, prices of rice, wheat, corn, palm oil and other essential staples have increased dramatically, leading to much debate about “the end of cheap food”.
Issue 34, October 2008 (page 28)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 20, November 2003 (page 11)
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)
Summary of working paper.
Issue 41, August 2011 (page 18)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 14, November 2001 (page 6)
The destruction brought by the violence of Hurricane Mitch from October 26-27th of l998 has been well documented. No country was harder hit than Honduras, a nation of 5.8 million.
Issue 10, July 2000 (page 19)
Summary of published research.
Issue 29, December 2006 (page 10)
The Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN) have published a network paper on ‘interpreting and using mortality data in humanitarian emergencies – a primer for non-epidemiologists’.
Issue 27, March 2006 (page 9)
Summary of unpublished paper.
Issue 16, August 2002 (page 3)
Published paper.
Issue 24, March 2005 (page 7)
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)
In the early to mid-1990s, Oxfam developed a one programme approach that combined relief, development and advocacy.
Supplement 3, March 2006 (page 59)
Summary of published research.
Issue 32, January 2008 (page 8)
Summary of published research.
Issue 27, March 2006 (page 12)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 6, February 1999 (page 8)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 23, November 2004 (page 6)
Summary of published report.
Issue 21, March 2004 (page 8)
A new tool has been developed at the Food Security Analysis Unit ( FSAU) to harmonise and improve the rigour of classifying and providing early warning of various stages of food security and humanitarian situations.
Issue 28, July 2006 (page 15)
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)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 21, March 2004 (page 8)
Summary of research.
Issue 18, March 2003 (page 5)
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)
Oxfam Great Britain has been working in Kenya since the 1960s, and in Wajir District since the 1980s, implementing relief and long-term development programmes.
Issue 12, April 2001 (page 15)
Summary of evaluation.
Issue 35, March 2009 (page 30)
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)
Summary of published research.
Issue 37, November 2009 (page 7)
Save the Children Fund (SCF UK) has been working in Bangladesh since the Bhola cyclone of 1970.
Issue 6, February 1999 (page 12)
Summary of report.
Issue 18, March 2003 (page 4)
Postscript.
Issue 29, December 2006 (page 10)
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)
Published paper.
Issue 24, March 2005 (page 7)
Most people have heard of the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention - known as CDC.
Issue 12, April 2001 (page 19)
Summary of evaluation.
Issue 32, January 2008 (page 26)
Summary of published research.
Issue 29, December 2006 (page 8)
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Issue 3, January 1998 (page 22)
Summary of published research.
Issue 35, March 2009 (page 10)
Summary of research.
Issue 41, August 2011 (page 18)
Summary of evaluation report.
Issue 33, June 2008 (page 29)
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world (>180 million in 2011), the second largest Muslim population after Indonesia and has wide diversity in terms of culture, ethnicity, language, geography and climate. Pakistan is a federal parliamentary republic consisting of four provinces and four federal territories.
Issue 43, July 2012 (page 67)
Summary of research.
Issue 18, March 2003 (page 3)
Between July and October last year Bangladesh suffered severe flooding regarded as the worst in living memory: two-thirds of Bangladesh was affected resulting in widespread disruption and damage to homesteads and crops.
Issue 8, November 1999 (page 26)
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)
In recent years the nature of emergencies have changed so that the vast majority of humanitarian crises are now acknowledged to be conflict related. These emergencies are often described as 'complex' emergencies.
Issue 4, June 1998 (page 18)
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)
Published paper.
Issue 24, March 2005 (page 9)
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)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 15, April 2002 (page 3)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 15, April 2002 (page 5)
Summary of research.
Issue 32, January 2008 (page 11)
As part of its Cash Learning Project, the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) is undertaking research into the use of cash in the tsunami response.
Issue 27, March 2006 (page 6)
Infants under 6 months are particularly vulnerable in emergencies, usually as a result of inappropriate feeding practices. Interventions to prevent and treat infant malnutrition in emergencies depend on an accurate assessment of infant nutritional status and a prerequisite to weighing is an effective set of weighing scales.
Issue 29, December 2006 (page 12)