Nutrition in emergencies


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The state of Food Insecurity in the World 2010

15/05/2010 - Following more than a decade of seemingly inexorable increases in the number of undernourished people, estimates for 2010 presented in this edition of The State of Food Insecurity in the World show a [...]

Guidelines for Selective Feeding: The Management of Malnutrition in Emergencies

30/04/2009 - These guidelines are intended as a practical guide to design, implement, monitor and evaluate selective feeding programmes in emergency situations, namely to answer the following key questions: - [...]

Public Health Guide for Emergencies

01/05/2008 - Building emergency relief skills requires not only technical health training but also education in emergency preparedness and response. This guide is designed to serve as a reference for such [...]

Cash and Food Transfers: A Primer

01/10/2007 - The objective of this paper is to unpack the various aspects of the “cash versus food” debate, to map out where the controversies lie and to demonstrate the need for a more pragmatic, [...]

FAO’s Role & Effectiveness in Emergencies

31/07/2007 - Workshop Handbook Chapter 1: Contingency planning Chapter 2: Early warning and coordination mechanisms Chapter 3: Needs assessment Chapter 4: Response analysis, selection and planning Chapter 5: [...]

Operational Guidance on Designating Sector/Cluster Leads in Major New Emergencies

01/05/2007 - IASC's operational guidance on designating sector or cluster leads in major new Emergencies. This guide can be accessed here [...]

Operational Guidance on Designating Sector/Cluster Leads in Ongoing Emergencies

01/05/2007 - IASC's operational guidance on designating sector/cluster leads in ongoing emergencies. This guide can be accessed here [...]

Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings

15/03/2007 - In 2005, in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami, an IASC Task Force on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings was established to develop intersectoral guidelines on mental health [...]

Cash-based responses in emergencies

01/01/2007 - Review of cash based responses in a number of countries for managers and field workers. This report can be accessed here [...]

Protecting and Promoting Good Nutrition in Crisis and Recovery

30/06/2005 - GUIDELINES designed to further the development of a more strategic focus that strengthens programme planners' capacity to protect and promote good nutrition in crisis situations. Its purpose is to [...]

Cash transfer programming in emergencies

15/05/2005 - Guidelines based upon Oxfam experiences for field staff. This guideline can be accessed here [...]

Food and Nutrition Needs in Emergencies

01/09/2004 - UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP and WHO have jointly developed these guidelines as a practical tool for assessing, estimating and monitoring the food and nutrition needs of populations in emergencies. These [...]

Targeting Food Aid in Emergencies - Special Supplement

01/07/2004 - This report supplement is intended to provide guidance on the design of food targeting systems in emergencies. Targeting is defined as directing a particular type or quantity of food, to a defined [...]

Review of the Published Literature of the Impact and Cost-effectiveness of six Nutrition Related Interventions

01/05/2004 - A review of the published evidence for the impact and cost-effectiveness of six key humanitarian interventions commonly implemented in emergencies (general rations, supplementary feeding, therapeutic [...]

Shared experiences in infant and young child feeding in emergencies

31/07/2003 - The following compilation of case studies was compiled in the course of an ENN/GIFA project on behalf of the Core group who are currently developing training materials for field staff working in [...]

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