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Assessing micronutrient deficiencies in emergencies-Current practice and future directions This document explores options available for investigating micronutrient deficiencies, draws attention to the best practices and includes references to practical tools and guidelines. Published in 2007, by |
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Back by popular demand: The benefits of traditional vegetables This booklet describes how reintroducing traditional leafy vegetables had an impact on the lives of people in a community near Nairobi, Kenya, thanks largely to the inspiration of one farmer. Published in 2006, by |
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Carrots & Sticks: The Political Economy of Nutrition Policy Reforms In May 2007 the World Bank held an international workshop to help increase the impact of nutrition programs and policies at country level. The ultimate goal was to allow the World Bank and its partners to develop tools and activities to deliver better outcomes at country level. Published in 2009, by |
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Community-based Therapeutic Care - Special Supplement This report supplement presents a collection of articles written by people who have been involved in Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC) programmes. The contributions come from Valid International's CTC research and development team, operational agencies implementing CTC programmes, independent practitioners and academics involved in the research and... Published in 2004, by |
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COURSE DIRECTOR SUMMARY: Training Course on the Management of Severe Malnutrition COURSE DIRECTOR SUMMARY Training Course on the Management of Severe Malnutrition Published in 2003, by |
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Document hors série 16: Enrichissement des aliments sur place pour améliorer la nutrition: Le cas de l'Afghanistan, de l'Angola et de la Zambie Le présent document expose trois approches suivies par le PAM pour enrichir les aliments en Afghanistan, en Angola et en Zambie, et examine les obstacles rencontrés et les résultats obtenus pour partager les informations ainsi rassemblées avec les autres organismes qui s'emploient à améliorer la situation nutritionnelle des pauvres et des groupes... Published in 2006, by |
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Documento especial 16: Enriquecimiento de alimentos sobre el terreno para mejorar la nutrición: estudios de casos en el Afganistán, Angola y Zambia En este documento especial se presentan tres métodos utilizados por el PMA para enriquecer los alimentos en el Afganistán, Angola y Zambia, y se examinan las dificultades encontradas y los resultados conseguidos. El objetivo es compartir estos conocimientos con otras entidades dedicadas a mejorar el estado nutricional de las poblaciones pobres y aquejadas... Published in 2006, by |
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Estudo de Caso Sobre a Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional no Processo de Desenvolvimento de Moçambique Neste exercício, a SAN é o ponto de partida de analise no processo de implementação das MDM dos diferentes sectores de desenvolvimento sócio - económico. O DHAA é usado como um instrumento de visualização e análise dos programas de SAN em relação às seguintes considerações respeitar, proteger, realizar e garantir que constituem os componentes primordiais. Published in 2005, by |
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Fifth Report on the World Nutrition Situation The 5th Report continues the tradition of reporting on trends in nutrition throughout the life cycle and of challenging the nutrition community. But instead of asking the question: how is nutrition affected by global changes? the 5th Report asks the question more proactively: how can a nutrition perspective accelerate the attainment of a comprehensive set of... Published in 2004, by |
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First Report on the World Nutrition Situation The overall objectives of the report are to provide an agreed basis for raising awareness of malnutrition - its extent, severity and trends - to advocate that increased attention be given to preventing this extensive and serious human problem. The report, through the indicators and their interpretation, should demonstrate the inter-sectoral nature of the... Published in 1987, by |
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First Report on the World Nutrition Situation - Supplement on Methods and Statistics This supplement to the ACC/SCN's First Report on the World Nutrition Situation essentially expands section 4 of that report - the Technical Notes - to give more details, for two main purposes. In the first place, it was felt that an understanding of what is known about the world nutrition situation needs considerable detail on sources of data, assumptions,... Published in 1988, by |
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Food Processing Pilot Centres - An approach to productive capacity-building for trade and poverty alleviation in Africa The Food Processing Pilot Centres (FPPCs) play a central role in the food industry value chain as they reinforce and manage the fundamental linkage between agriculture and the industry/market through technological upgrading, business networking and market access improvement, thus creating a more favorable environment for business development. The rural... Published in 2007, by |
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Food security assessments in emergencies: A livelihoods Approach Framework and concepts for food security assessment based on livelihoods approach. Detailed case studies of implementation. For managers and field staff. Published in 2000, by |
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Fourth Report on the World Nutrition Situation Nutrition throughout the Life Cycle The Fourth Report on the World Nutrition Situation is part of a series of ACC/SCN reports initiated in the mid-1980s on the nutritional status of populations in developing countries. While earlier reports have focused on regional trends in preschool undernutrition, this report is built around the theme nutrition throughout the life cycle. This change was... Published in 2000, by |
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From Food Crisis to Fair Trade; Livelihood Analysis, Protection and Support in Emergencies This report supplement aims to collate and analyse recent experiences of livelihoods programming in emergencies. The document provides guidance on livelihoods programming, includes practical examples from the field and summarises recent thinking. It provides an overview of what livelihoods programming is and examples of the range of interventions that are... Published in 2006, by |
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HANDBOOK Developing and Applying National Guidelines on Nutrition and HIV/AIDS This HANDBOOK is designed to increase nutrition capacity in East and southern Africa with a focus on the processes involved when adapting existing nutritional guidelines to suit country-specific situations and objectives. It includes guidance on how to use and produce technical material as well as monitoring and evaluating their use. It is aimed at health... Published in 2003, by |
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HarvestPlus - Le haricot Des millions d’Africains souffrent de carence en fer ou d’anémie ferriprive. En bas âge, pendant l’enfance et durant l’adolescence, cette carence entrave la croissance physique et l’endurance, le développement mental, ainsi que les capacités d’apprentissage. Pour plus de 300 millions de personnes, le haricot joue un rôle important dans le... Published in 2009, by |
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HarvestPlus Bean Strategy Millions of Africans suffer from iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia. During infancy, childhood, and adolescence, this deficiency impairs physical growth and endurance, mental development, and learning capacity. For more than 300 million people, beans are an important part of the diet, especially in regions of Africa and Meso- and South America. The... Published in 2009, by |
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HarvestPlus Maize Strategy Vitamin A deficiency is widely prevalent in Africa and afflicts millions of children, resulting in morbidity, blindness, and even death. For many millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa (and Latin America) maize is a subsistence crop. Maize is also one of the most genetically diverse crops in the world, and scientists have found varieties that have... Published in 2009, by |
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HarvestPlus Sweet Potato Strategy Children with vitamin A deficiency are at increased risk of severe morbidity from common childhood infections such as diarrheal diseases and measles. In cases of extreme deficiency, they can become blind. More than 95% of the world’s sweet potato crop is grown in developing countries, where it is the fifth most important food crop. African farmers produce... Published in 2009, by |
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HIV/AIDS, TB and Nutrition - Scientific enquiry into the nutritional influences on human immunity with special reference to HIV infection and active TB in South Africa. A fascinating evidence based account reviewing research of how malnutrition and HIV and TB interrelate, and the importance of intensive nutritional support for people with HIV. Published in 2007, by |
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How to Conduct a Food Security Assessment: A Step-by-Step Guide for National Societies in Africa This guide should be used as a practical tool to undertake an initial food security assessment. It goes through the different stages of a food security assessment, and provides techniques and examples of how to perform a food security assessment. The guide can be used both in rural or urban settings. Published in 2006, by |
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Integrating Vitamin A with Immunization - An Information and Training Package TRAINING module for integrating Vitamin A with immunization programmes. The training sessions cover: General information Logistics and supplies Administration of Vitamin A capsules Record-keeping Social mobilization Monitoring and supervision In addition there are case studies for Malawi and Ethiopia. The training is aimed for all contexts,... Published in 2003, by |
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Joint evaluation of the international response to the Indian Ocean tsunami: Synthesis report The TEC's Synthesis Report represents the culmination of over a year's work by TEC member agencies. It examines the successes and failures as well as the constraints within which the response occurred between the first 8 and 11 months of the response. It does this by distilling the findings and learning from over 140 additional reports, including many TEC... Published in 2006, by |
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La nutritión y la ayuda en alimentos - differentes modalidades, differentes impactos Tanto los alimentos por trabajo como su distribución gratuita están cada vez más al alcance de los hogares pobres y vulnerables, con un impacto positivo directo en el peso para la talla. Los beneficios de los programas varían dependiendo del sexo del niño y, a veces, del sexo del beneficiario. Reproduced with permission from the International... Published in 2003, by |
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Lessons from Rwanda - Lessons for Today Following the 1994 genocide in Rwanda the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs initiated a comprehensive evaluation of the international response. The findings were highly critical of nearly all the international actors. Ten years after the genocide the Ministry commissioned this assessment of the impact and influence of the evaluation. It concludes that the... Published in 2005, by |
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Micronutrients in Somalia: a Pocket Guide Guidelines including information on micronutrients and the disorders that result from their deficiency as part of a strategy to counter malnutrition problem in Somalia through short and longer term interventions aimed at prevention. The guidelines are applicable outside Somalia and are accompanied by Flip Charts for training use. Published in 2005, by |
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NUTRITION - A Guide to Data Collection, Analysis, Interpretation and Use Manual aimed at mid-level managers in all sectors who would like to better understand nutrition information and its use. The manual sets out all the steps involved in nutrition data collection and analysis including practical guidance for use by survey enumerators, health facility workers and other field workers. Additional materials have also been prepared... Published in 2005, by |
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Nutrition Beyond the Health Sector: A Profile of World Bank Lending in Nutrition from 2000-2006 The World Bank report Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development (2006) explicitly recommended improving nutrition by not only working through the health sector, but also in non-health sectors such as agriculture and education. This report provides descriptive and financial profiles of the Bank’s recent portfolio in nutrition (from FY2000 to late... Published in 2008, by |
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Nutrition et aide alimentaire - modalités differentes, impacts differents Les programmes de vivres contre travail et distribution alimentaire gratuite en rejoignant de plus en plus les ménages pauvres et vulnérables ont un impact positif direct sur l’indice staturopondéral. Les bénéfices de ces programmes varient selon le sexe de l'enfant et, parfois, de celui du destinataire. Reproduced with permission from the... Published in 2003, by |
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Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 16 The UN Standing Committee on Nutrition issues these Reports on Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action. The Reports are designed to provide information over time on key outcome indicators from emergency- affected populations, play an advocacy role in bringing the plight of emergency affected... Published in 2008, by |
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Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 18 The UN Standing Committee on Nutrition issues these Reports on Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action. The Reports are designed to provide information over time on key outcome indicators from emergency- affected populations, play an advocacy role in bringing the plight of emergency affected... Published in 2009, by |
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Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 19 The UN Standing Committee on Nutrition issues these Reports on Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action. The Reports are designed to provide information over time on key outcome indicators from emergency- affected populations, play an advocacy role in bringing the plight of emergency affected... Published in 2009, by |
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Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 20 The UN Standing Committee on Nutrition issues these Reports on Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action. The Reports are designed to provide information over time on key outcome indicators from emergency- affected populations, play an advocacy role in bringing the plight of emergency affected... Published in 2009, by |
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Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 21 The UN Standing Committee on Nutrition issues these Reports on Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action. The Reports are designed to provide information over time on key outcome indicators from emergency- affected populations, play an advocacy role in bringing the plight of emergency affected... Published in 2010, by |
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Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No 04 - Women's Role in Food Chain Activities and the Implications for Nutrition We hope that the wide-ranging information herein will further the crucially important cause of women, specifically in relation to nutrition, in several ways. First, women's central role in providing for adequate nutrition - of families, communities, and indeed nations - in being described here in detail should help to give increased prominence to the need... Published in 1989, by |
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Nutrition-Relevant Actions in Tanzania This Tanzanian case study provides an example of how a poor country can combat malnutrition through political commitment and choice. It gives hope that while socio−economic development is important to achieve the nutrition goals of the 1990’s, much progress can be made without waiting for the trickle down effects of economic development. Published in 1993, by |
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Nutrition-Relevant Actions in Zimbabwe This review of the nutrition situation in Zimbabwe over the years since independence in 1980 will consider both nutrition−related problems and actions. Published in 1992, by |
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Occasional Paper 16: Fortifying Food in the Field to Boost Nutrition: Case Studies from Afghanistan, Angola and Zambia This Occasional Paper outlines three approaches by WFP to fortifying food in Afghanistan, Angola and Zambia. It examines the challenges faced and the outcomes achieved in an effort to share this knowledge with others dedicated to improving the nutritional status of poor and food-insecure people. Published in 2006, by |
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Opportunities for Africa’s Newborns: Practical data, policy and programme support for newborn care in Africa For preventing malnutrition in young children, it is vital to promote newborn survival and to improve birth weights. The book provides an overview of the continuum of care through the lifecycle and opportunities to address gaps at all levels - family and community care, outreach services and health care facilities. Case studies are analysed in order to learn... Published in 2010, by |
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Progrès pour les enfants : un bilan de la nutrition (No. 4) Le présent bilan – le quatrième d’une série de l’UNICEF qui surveille les progrès accomplis en faveur des enfants – mesure les résultats obtenus au plan mondial dans le domaine de la nutrition, en prenant comme indicateur principal le pourcentage d’enfants de moins de cinq ans présentant une insuffi sance pondérale. La communauté... Published in 2006, by |
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Progreso para la infancia: un balance sobre la nutrición (No. 4) El propósito de este balance –el cuarto de una serie de balances preparados por UNICEF para realizar un seguimiento sobre el progreso de la infancia hacia los ODM– es evaluar el desempeño mundial en materia de nutrición, tomando como indicador básico la prevalencia de peso inferior al normal entre los niños y niñas menores de cinco años. Aun... Published in 2006, by |
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Progress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition (No. 4) This report card – the fourth in a UNICEF series that monitors progress for children towards the MDGs – measures the world’s performance on nutrition, taking the prevalence of underweight among children under five as its primary indicator. The global community promised to cut the proportion of underweight children by half between 1990 and 2015, but we... Published in 2006, by |
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Protecting and Promoting Good Nutrition in Crisis and Recovery 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 establish a common vision and standpoint from which to assess, analyse and improve nutritional well-being in a variety of emergency contexts. It will be relevant... Published in 2005, by |
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Protocol for the management of Severe Acute Malnutrition With training materials and a summary wall chart. National guidelines based in recent standard protocols. Suitable for managers and health workers. Published in 2007, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 18 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. This is the eightteenth of a regular series of reports. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and NGO. The information available is mainly about... Published in 1996, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 20 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. This is the twentieth of a regular series of reports. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and NGO. The information available is mainly about... Published in 1997, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 21 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. This is the twenty first of a regular series of reports. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and NGO. The information available is mainly about... Published in 1997, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 22 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. This is the nineteenth of a regular series of reports. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and NGO. The information available is mainly about... Published in 1997, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 23 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. This is the twenty third of a regular series of reports. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and NGO. The information available is mainly about... Published in 1998, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 24 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. This is the twenty fourth of a regular series of reports. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and NGO. The information available is mainly... Published in 1998, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 25 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations This issue of the RNIS Report reviews some of the changes in emergency response over the last five years. It starts by highlighting situations where wasting was brought rapidly under control. It then looks at some of the factors that have led to less than optimal results, followed by what has been accomplished to improve response over the last five years. It... Published in 1998, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 26 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. This is the twenty sixth of a regular series of reports. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and NGO. The information available is mainly about... Published in 1999, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 27 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. This is the twenty seventh of a regular series of reports. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and NGO. The information available is mainly... Published in 1999, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 28 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. This is the twenty eighth of a regular series of reports. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and NGO. The information available is mainly... Published in 1999, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 29 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. This is the twenty ninth of a regular series of reports. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and NGO. The information available is mainly about... Published in 1999, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 30 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. This is the thirtieth of a regular series of reports. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and NGO. The information available is mainly about... Published in 2000, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 31 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. This is the thirty-first of a regular series of reports. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and NGO. The information available is mainly about... Published in 2000, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 32 and 33 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and NGO. The information available is mainly about nutrition, health, and survival in refugee and displaced... Published in 2001, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 34 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The 34th issue of the RNIS provides updates on selected emergency contexts around the globe. The focus is predominantly Sub-Saharan Africa and this reflects the greater amount of nutritional information from emergency contexts that is currently available for the region. Some previously covered countries such as Rwanda, the Republic of Congo and the... Published in 2001, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 35 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The 35th issue of the RNIS provides updates on selected emergency contexts around the globe. The focus is predominantly Sub-Saharan Africa and this reflects the greater amount of nutritional information from emergency contexts that is currently available for this region. There is also a large section on the Afghan Region which reflects the severity of the... Published in 2001, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 36 and 37 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and NGO. The information available is mainly about nutrition, health, and survival in refugee and displaced... Published in 2002, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 38 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and NGO. The information available is mainly about nutrition, health, and survival in refugee and displaced... Published in 2002, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 39 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and NGO. The information available is mainly about nutrition, health, and survival in refugee and displaced... Published in 2002, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 41 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN Standing Committee on Nutrition issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. The key point of the reports is to interpret anthropometric data and to judge the various risks and threats to nutrition in both the long and short term. Published in 2003, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 42 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN Standing Committee on Nutrition issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. The key point of the reports is to interpret anthropometric data and to judge the various risks and threats to nutrition in both the long and short term. Published in 2003, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 43 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN Standing Committee on Nutrition issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. The key point of the reports is to interpret anthropometric data and to judge the various risks and threats to nutrition in both the long and short term. Published in 2003, by |
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SCN News No 16 - Nutrition of the School-age Child This feature brings together a variety of articles, and reports of two new publications on the health and nutrition of school-age children. The papers range in content from the assessment of nutritional status in school-age children, to examples of school-based nutrition and feeding programmes in different countries. The nutritional concerns of school... Published in 1998, by |
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SCN News No 17 - Nutrition and HIV/AIDS “Nutrition and HIV/AIDS” is featured in this newsletter. HIV continues its rapid and devastating spread in many areas of the world most notably sub-Saharan Africa. This feature addresses issues of HIV and Infant Feeding and the possible role of micronutrient deficiency on HIV progression. Adequate nutrition and food security must be recognised as... Published in 1998, by |
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SCN News No 20 - Nutrition and Agriculture This issue of SCN News deals with nutrition and agriculture. Published in 2000, by |
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SCN News No 24 - Nutrition in the Context of Conflict and Crisis For this issue of SCN News the Secretariat team presents the full set of papers delivered at the 29th session in Berlin in March 2002 on the theme nutrition in conflict and crisis. The symposium touched upon the politics of humanitarian aid delivery, livelihood security, and the right to food and nutrition during emergencies. Published in 2002, by |
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SCN News No 28 - Nutrition and the Millennium Development Goals On 22 March 2004, international development practitioners and nutrition technocrats and scientists met at the United Nations in New York for the SCN Symposium on Nutrition as the key to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The Symposium focused on nutrition’s role in accelerating improvements in poverty reduction, sustainable development and... Published in 2004, by |
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SCN News No 30 - Closing the Gap on the Right to Adequate Food: The Voluntary Guidelines The focus of this edition of SCN News is on the challenges provided by the new Voluntary Guidelines on realizing the right to adequate food, adopted by the FAO Council last November. The papers include the SCN’s experience of developing case studies on how to strengthen food and nutrition components of national poverty reduction plans. They describe the... Published in 2005, by |
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SCN News No 31 – Adolescence: a Pivotal Stage in the Lifecycle This issue of SCN News features articles addressing a population that receives little attention: adolescents. UNFPA’s State of World Population (2005) estimates that there are 1.2 billion adolescents between 10-19 years of age today. Although not specifically mentioned in the Millennium Development Goals, adolescents are the future adults who will continue... Published in 2005, by |
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SCN News No 33 - Diet-related Chronic Diseases and the Double Burden of Malnutrition in West Africa This issue of the SCN News features the papers presented at the Nutrition Forum meeting in Cape Verde. This is the results of a new collaborative arrangement between the SCN and the West African Health Organization (WAHO) of the Economic Community of Western African States (ECOWAS). The Nutrition Forum of ECOWAS brings together the nutrition focal points of... Published in 2006, by |
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SCN News No 37 - Landscape Analysis on Countries' Readiness to Accelerate Action in Nutrition This issue of SCN News focuses on the Landscape Analysis on Readiness to Accelerate Nutrition Action with Chizuru Nishida of WHO as the Special Guest Editor. It describes the country assessments undertaken in five countries that are part of the 36 high-burden countries identified by the Lancet Nutrition Series. Published in 2009, by |
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Second Report on the World Nutrition Situation - Volume I: Global and Regional Results This Second Report on the World Nutrition Situation comes at an important time. In the near future human well-being, to which nutrition is fundamental, could improve more rapidly throughout the world; but economic adjustments and mass migration are continuing threats. The results here show steady, if slow, progress in many countries in the last few years.... Published in 1992, by |
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Second Report on the World Nutrition Situation - Volume II: Country Trends Methods and Statistics Country-level data are intended to illustrate and promote understanding of observed trends in nutrition. They also, importantly, show the variety of situations, smoothed out in the regional data, from rapid improvement to stagnation or deterioration. As discussed in the text, the choice of countries was biased towards those with large populations. This means... Published in 1993, by |
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Seed vouchers in emergency programming: Lessons from Ethiopia and Mozambique. Background paper Case studies and lessons learned for field staff and programme managers Published in 2006, by |
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Small-scale Cereal Milling and Bakery Products - Production methods, equipment and quality assurance practices The purpose of this manual is to guide the small-scale cereal miller and baker in Uganda to optimize their processing methods and implement GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) and quality assurance schemes and build their technical capacity for improved market access and competitiveness. This manual covers technical aspects of cereal processing to produce... Published in 2004, by |
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Small-scale Fruit and Vegetable Processing and Products Production methods, equipment and quality assurance practices The purpose of this manual is to guide small-scale processors in the Ugandan fruits and vegetables sector to optimize their processing methods and implement quality assurance schemes and GHP (Good Hygienic Practices) and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) programmes thus building their technical capacity for improved market access and competitiveness. ... Published in 2004, by |
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Small-scale Root Crops and Tubers Processing and Products Production methods, equipment and quality assurance practices The purpose of this manual is to guide the small-scale root crop and tuber processor in Uganda to optimize their processing methods and implement quality assurance schemes and GHP (Good Hygienic Practices) and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) programmes thus building their technical capacity for improved market access and competitiveness. This... Published in 2004, by |
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Strengthening Monitoring and Evaluation in the World Bank's Nutrition Portfolio Recent developments in the World Bank towards a greater emphasis on results based management, on achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and a shift away from vertical programs towards programmatic lending and poverty reduction strategy credits (PRSCs) provided a backdrop to this discussion meeting on monitoring and evaluation for nutrition. The... Published in 2003, by |
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Third Report on the World Nutrition Situation This Third Report on the World Nutrition Situation is part of a series of SCN reports initiated in the mid 80s on nutritional status of populations in developing countries. The centrepiece of earlier reports was estimates of regional trends in underweight of preschool children. This Third Report presents, for the first time, information on global and... Published in 1997, by |
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Update on the Nutrition Situation - 1994 This report updates the results given in the Second Report on the World Nutrition Situation. New data available at country level1 give recent trends in prevalences of underweight children, as the main nutritional indicator, in 18 countries. These can be compared with those reported in Volume II, to give a total of 46 national trend estimates for the 1980s... Published in 1994, by |
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Update on the Nutrition Situation - Recent Trends in Nutrition in 33 Countries The report aims to describe recent trends in nutrition and certain potential determining factors, country-by-country. The approach is unavoidably ad hoc, due to the variable availability of data. Selected indicators of likely determinants of year-to-year change are emphasized, especially related to economic stress. Such factors are thought to be having... Published in 1989, by |