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Guidelines for Selective Feeding: The Management of Malnutrition in Emergencies

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:

- Which type and combination of selective feeding programmes are required?
- How should each be implemented?

The target audience includes:

- Nutrition experts
- Programme managers and decision-makers in the United Nations (UN) system
- Government officials within relevant ministries
- Donor agencies
- Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)

Also found is an annotated bibliography is a guide to the various publications used in revising the “UNHCR/WFP Guidelines for Selective Feeding Programmes in Emergency Situations” published in 1999. The references included in this annotated bibliography cover documents published between 1999 and 2008.

The guidelines and annotated bibliography can be accessed here

Author:
UNHCR & WFP with collaboration of UNSCN and WHO
Year:
2009