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Measuring Mortality, Nutritional Status, and Food Security in Crisis Situations - SMART Methodology version 1

SMART

Published in : 2006

Available in : English

Keywords : mortality, food security, nutrition, manual

A manual detailing a basic integrated method for assessing nutritional status and mortality rate in emergency situations. It includes details of hot to use the Nutrisurvey software for analysing data. The software can be downloaded from http://www.nutrisurvey.de/ena/ena.html. The manual is aimed at host government partners and humanitarian organisations as part of the SMART Initiative enhancing capacity and draws from core elements of several existing methods and best practice. It includes an optional chapter of Food Security which is based on a simplified version of the Household Economy Approach.

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Measuring Mortality, Nutritional Status, and Food Security in Crisis Situations - SMART Methodology version 1 (PDF, 1.42Mb)

Originally posted at : www.smartmethodology.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1093&Itemid=291&lang=en

This resource is listed under:

Themes : Emergency, general, Household Food Security and community nutrition, general, Nutrition assessments and M&E, general, Nutrition training and capacity development, general, Undernutrition, general, Anthropometry, Demographic, HTP module 07, Monitoring and evaluation, Monitoring and evaluation, Mortality, Mortality, MUAC, MUAC, Sampling

Resource types : Field guide, Guidelines, Operational guidance: Programme and implementation, Reports, Scientific/background documents

Working groups : Nutrition in Emergencies