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A Billion Hungry People: Governments and aid agencies must rise to the challenge

This paper considers some of the ways in which governments and aid agencies could address the needs of the more than 1 billion hungry in the world. The first section explains that the initial step is for all stakeholders to recognise and agree on the nature and breadth of the problems on the ground. The second section recommends different responses to hunger...

Published in 2009, by Oxfam

A Manual: Measuring and Interpreting Malnutrition and Mortality

The purpose of this manual is 1) To provide guidance on issues relating to nutrition and mortality surveys 2) To standardize survey methodology used by WFP staff, consultants and implementing partners as a means of ensuring quality 3) To standardize survey data interpretation and reporting.

Published in 2007, by CDC, WFP

A review of UNICEF’s role in cash transfers to emergency-affected populations

This paper is part of an ongoing process exploring UNICEF’s engagement with cash-based responses in emergencies. The main aim of the paper is to stimulate discussion on the potential role of cash transfers within UNICEF’s response to emergencies.

Published in 2007, by Susanne Jaspars et al

According to need? Needs assessment and decicion-making in the humanitarian sector

A technical paper looking at the link between needs assessment and decision-making in the humanitarian sector.

Published in 2010, by James Darcy, Charles-Antoine Hofmann

Acute Malnutrition in Protracted Refugee Situations: A Global Strategy UNHCR/WFP

This Global Strategy Report was produced to develop a global strategy to address acute malnutrition rates in protracted refugee situations.

Published in 2006, by UNHCR, WFP

Addressing the Humanitarian Challenges of Climate Change Regional and National Perspectives

Preliminary Findings from the IASC Regional and National Level Consultations

Published in 2010, by IASC

Addressing the Nutritional Needs of Older People in Emergency Situations in Africa: Ideas for Action

Report bringing together some of the key issues affecting the nutrition of older people in emergencies and offers some suggestions for ways in which the rights and needs of older people can be more effectively addressed. The report is divided into six main sections that seek to provide an overview of the main nutritional issues facing older people in...

Published in 2001, by HelpAge International, African Regional Development Centre

Adolescents: Assessment of Nutritional Status in Emergency-affected Populations

This RNIS (Refugee Nutrition Information System) supplement discusses the assessment of undernutrition in adolescents in emergency situations with a focus on acute undernutrition. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines adolescents as persons aged 10-19 years old. This is one of the few publications on this age group.

Published in 2000, by UN Standing Committtee on Nutrition

Adults: Assessment of Nutritional Status in Emergency-Affected Populations

This RNIS (Refugee Nutrition Information System) supplement describes simple techniques suitable for the assessment of the nutritional status of adults aged 20-60 years in emergency-affected populations. The BMI (Body Mass Index), MUAC (Mid-upper Arm Circumference), and clinical models are assessed for their usefulness in determining the prevalence of...

Published in 2000, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Alimentos para la nutrición: mayor integración de las actividades de nutrición en el PMA

La mayoría de los fallecimientos prevenibles de personas que padecen hambre no se producen en situaciones de urgencia. En los países que no sufren conflictos o catástrofes naturales, la malnutrición es responsable directa del fallecimiento anual de millones de niños y madres. Así pues, la ingente labor del PMA destinada a salvar vidas en situaciones de...

Published in 2004, by PMA - WFP

Analysing disrupted health sectors – a Modular Manual

A manual, linked to a training course, with the aim of providing guidance to analysts of troubled health sectors. This includes countries on the verge of an economic, political and/or military catastrophe, protracted crises and situations of transition from disaster to recovery. The intended users are apprentice analysts, already with field experience,...

Published in 2007, by WHO

Anthropometry Basics: FANTA bookmark

The BOOKMARK presents clear information on basic anthropometric concepts. Bookmarks measure 2.5" by 7.5" (6.4 cm by 19.1 cm).

Published in 2004, by FANTA

Anthropometry training video

Demonstrates measurement of child weight, length, height and arm circumference, and adult weight and height. Available in English, French and Spanish.

Published in 2004, by WHO

Antiretroviral therapy of HIV infection of infants and children in resource-limited settings: towards universal access. Recommendations for a public health approach. Revision 2010

These recommendations are designed for health professionals involved in caring for and treating children with HIV with antiretrovirals and senior policy makers. They are highly technical, but have been peer reviewed by Paediatricians and other health professionals from around the world who specialise in HIV in children, and thus are a gold standard of care.

Published in 2010, by WHO

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Assessing Nutrition Situations in Emergencies: FANTA bookmark

The BOOKMARK presents clear information on malnutrition classification and cut-offs with commonly used eligibility criteria for selective feeding programs. Bookmarks measure 2.5" by 7.5" (6.4 cm by 19.1 cm)

Published in 2006, by FANTA

Assessing the effectiveness of community based targeting of emergency food aid in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Malawi

Provides an overview of effectiveness of three community-based targeting food distribution systems. For managers planning community-based targeting systems

Published in 2005, by WFP/IFPRI, D. O. Gilligan, J. Hoddinott, A. R. Quisumbing, M. Sharma

Assessment of iodine deficiency disorders and monitoring their elimination: A guide for programme managers

This document sets out principles governing the use of surveillance indicators in implementing interventions to prevent, control, and monitor iodine deficiency disorders (IDD). It presents methods for monitoring iodine status and determining urinary iodine and provides guidelines on the procedures for monitoring salt iodine content, whether at the factory,...

Published in 2007, by WHO, UNICEF, ICCIDD

ASSETS Guidebook: Assessment of Emergency and Transition Situations

This manual is intended to provide a brief overview and introduction to ASSETS, a tool that has been designed by Mercy Corps to assist in conducting assessments. While originally developed for complex emergency situations, many of the manual’s components are relevant and applicable to non-emergency settings. This guide is divided into three sections:...

Published in 2006, by Mercy Corps, Health Alliance International

Évaluation des besoins d'urgence

Dans les situations d'urgence, le PAM est responsable de déterminer si une aide extérieure est nécessaire pour faire face aux besoins alimentaires immédiats et si l'aide alimentaire constitue la forme appropriée d'assistance. Le PAM et ses partenaires déterminent en outre quelles autres interventions s'imposent pour promouvoir les objectifs de la...

Published in 2004, by PAM - WFP

Barrier Analysis Facilitator’s Guide: A Tool for Improving Behaviour Change Communication in Child Survival and Community Development Programs

Barrier Analysis is a rapid assessment tool used in community health and other community development projects to identify behavioral determinants associated with a particular behavior. These behavioral determinants are identified so that more effective behavior change communication messages, strategies and supporting activities (e.g., creating support...

Published in 2004, by Davis Jr., , Thomas P

Behaviour Change Communication in Emergencies

Provides the means to prepare, plan, implement and monitor behaviour change communication initiatives supporting health, hygiene and child protection efforts in emergencies, including IFE issues. For programme managers from UNICEF, United Nations agencies, NGO partners and government personnel.

Published in 2006, by UNICEF Regional Office of South Asia

Brazilian Case Study

The objective of this effort was to support Brazil in acquiring skills and experience in dealing with the political, organizational, technical, financial, and social challenges derived from the decision to include food and nutrition objectives, priorities, and goals in national development plans designed to reduce poverty and eradicate hunger as a means to...

Published in 2005, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Breastfeeding Counselling: A Training Course

Designed to provide health workers with the clinical and interpersonal skills needed to support mothers and their children to breastfeed optimally. It includes guides for the course director and trainers, a participant’s manual, a booklet with overhead figures, a slide book and annexes. The materials are designed to make it possible for trainers even with...

Published in 1993, by WHO, UNICEF

Call for support for appropriate infant and young child feeding in the current Asian emergency, and caution about unnecessary use of milk products

WHO, UNICEF, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies call for support for appropriate infant and young child feeding in the current Asian emergency, and caution about unnecessary use of milk products.

Published in 2004, by WHO, UNICEF, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Case study: Development of a Learning Package for the IASC Guidelines on HIV/AIDS in Emergency Settings

HIV/AIDS is a complex problem with impacts that extend far beyond the issue of health, into all areas of socio-economic development. One initiative taken by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Task Force (IASC) of the United Nations is the development of Guidelines for HIV/AIDS interventions in Emergency Settings. These guidelines provide valuable...

Published in 2005, by Inter-Agency Standing Committee

Cash and Food Transfers: A Primer

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, balanced and contextspecific approach. A key message is that appropriateness cannot be predetermined since programme objectives, the economics of food consumption, market...

Published in 2007, by Ugo Gentilini

Cash for work programming – a practical guide.

Comprehensive information on cash based interventions including baseline and evaluation questionnaires, data base, evaluation reports and training manual. For trainers and field staff

Published in 2002, by Sarah Lumsden, Emma Naylor

Cash transfer programming in emergencies

Guidelines based upon Oxfam experiences for field staff.

Published in 2010, by Pantaleo Creti, Susanne Jaspars

Cash transfers in emergencies: evaluating benefits and assessing risks

Reviews evidence for benefits and risks and provides framework for evaluation for field staff and managers.

Published in 2001, by David Peppiatt, John Mitchell, Penny Holzmann

Cash Workbook: A practical user’s guide for the preparation and implementation of Cash Projects

Guidelines on preparing for cash projects for field staff

Published in 2010, by Egon Rauch, Helmut Scheuer

Cash-based responses in emergencies

Review of cash based responses in a number of countries for managers and field workers

Published in 2007, by Paul Harvey

Chad – a country in crisis

This evaluation reviewes progress and performance of the humanitarian response, and its interface with the existing Chad health system. It also examines the health effects and implications of cross-border population movements, and health service accessibility for both refugees and the host population.

Published in 2007, by Nigel Pearson

Changing Glaciers and Hydrology in Asia: Addressing vulnerabilities to glacier melt impacts

The goal of the study reported here is to provide approaches to glacier melt, within the context of climate change, based on state-of-the-art knowledge, to USAID Missions in three topic areas: (1) science related to glacier melt and high-altitude hydrology, (2) the impacts of changes near and far in space and time, and (3) the organizations and activities...

Published in 2010, by USAID

Chapter 20: Global climate change

In: The Comparative quantification of health risks -book.

Published in 2004, by Anthony J. McMichael et al.

Climate change and children

Examines the effects of climate change on children – and examines how climate change has evolved from an ‘environmental’ issue into one that requires collective expertise in sustainable development, energy security, and the health and well-being of children. Young people speak directly through comments and letters collected by UNICEF’s Voices of...

Published in 2007, by UNICEF

Climate Change and Food Security: A Framework Document

Until recently, most assessments of the impact of climate change on the food and agriculture sector have focused on the implications for production and global supply of food, with less consideration of other components of the food chain. This paper takes a broader view and explores the multiple effects that global warming and climate change could have on...

Published in 2008, by FAO Interdepartamental Working Group on Climate Change

Climate Change and Human Health: Risks and responses

This book seeks to describe the context and process of global climate change, its actual or likely impacts on health, and how human societies and their governments should respond with particular focus on the health sector.

Published in 2003, by WHO

Climate change is affecting our health. Something should be done now.

This brochure presents six paintings, produced by the Italian painter Elisabetta Farina and commissioned by WHO are linked to a broader initiative named Art for Health aimed at using art work to support awareness-raising about the health consequences of climate change. It underlines the global impact making use of images of women from different regions...

Published in 2009, by WHO

Climate Change: Quantifying the health impact at national and local levels

Environmental burden of disease series, No. 14

Published in 2007, by Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Rosalie Woodruff

Collection: La faim dans le monde - La faim et le rôle des marchés

Cette troisième édition de la Collection: La faim dans le monde examine la corrélation complexe entre les marchés et la faim. Ce rapport ne saurait être plus pertinent, ni arriver à un moment plus opportun. Ces dernières années, nous avons été témoins des conséquences néfastes du coût élevé des produits alimentaires sur l’état nutritionnel...

Published in 2009, by PAM - WFP

Collection: La faim dans le monde 2007 - La faim et la santé

Nous disposons des moyens de triompher de la faim de notre vivant. Il existe des technologies, des connaissances et des ressources permettant de satisfaire aux besoins de ceux qui souffrent de la faim. Il faut maintenant pour cela que les dirigeants fassent les bons choix politiques afin que les images d’enfants dénutris soient reléguées parmi les...

Published in 2007, by PAM - WFP

Commodity Distribution: A practical guide for field staff

This guide outlines procedures to assist UNHCR Field staff and operational partners in the design and implementation of systems for commodity distribution. Needs assessment, the planning of rations and the management of the logistics chain, up to the distribution site, are not covered.

Published in 1997, by UNHCR

Communicable disease control in emergencies: A field manual

A manual, including the prevention, surveillance, and outbreak control of communicable diseases. Chapters on rapid assessment, prevention, surveillance, oubreak control and disease prevention and control.

Published in 2005, by WHO

Communicable diseases and severe food shortage situations

The combination of communicable diseases (CDs) and malnutrition is the most prevalent public health problem in the world today; together they are responsible for millions of preventable deaths worldwide each year.

Published in 2005, by WHO

Community Therapeutic Care: A New Approach to Managing Acute Malnutrition in Emergencies and Beyond

Technical Notes outlining the CTC approach, its implementation and the role of Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUFT). 1. What is CTC? 2. Why does the implementation of CTC approach propose an update in the classification of malnutrition? 3. How is the CTC approach implemented? 4. What is the difference between CTC and Home Based Treatment? 5. What...

Published in 2004, by FANTA

Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) - Training Guide

Extensive training course on all aspects of setting up and running community based therapeutic care programmes. With practical cases and exercises. Suitable for managers and health workers

Published in 2008, by FANTA

Community-based management of Severe Acute Malnutrition

A Joint Statement by the WHO, the WFP, the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition and the UNICEF on the community-based treatment of severely malnurished children, promoting it's effectiveness in detecting the cases of SAM and treating them with RUTF. Update 2011 The Joint Statement has been updated to reflect the revised MUAC cut-off of 115 mm on pages 2...

Published in 2007, by WHO, WFP, UNSCN, UNICEF

Community-based Therapeutic Care - A Field Manual

This manual reflects the experience gained over five years of implementing and developing Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC). It is a practical guide that aims to help health and nutrition managers to design, implement and evaluate CTC programmes. It will also be relevant to a variety of others working in relief and development.

Published in 2006, by Valid International

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 Emergency Nutrition Network

Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis Guidelines, First Edition

The Comprehensive Food Security & Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA) is a unique tool designed to understand and describe the profiles of food-insecure and vulnerable households, identify the root causes of hunger, and analyze the risks and emerging vulnerabilities among populations in crisis-prone countries. It also makes recommendations on the best response...

Published in 2009, by WFP

Concerning Accountability in Humanitarian Action

This paper asks whether initiatives designed to improve accountability really are the solution to the problems humanitarianism faces today. It does not aim to dismiss accountability; rather, it seeks to show that accountability is a procedural phenomenon, not a moral one. Imposing it in the absence of a more specific understanding of what it means is...

Published in 2007, by Austen Davis, ODI

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly, is often described as an international bill of rights for women. Consisting of a preamble and 30 articles, it defines what constitutes discrimination against women and sets up an agenda for national action to end such discrimination.

Published in 1979, by UN

Convention on the Rights of the Child

This convention bans discrimination against children and provides for special protection and rights appropriate to minors. The preamble recalls the basic principles of the United Nations and specific provisions of certain relevant human rights treaties and proclamations. It reaffirms the fact that children, because of their vulnerability, need special care...

Published in 1989, by UN

Cooking up a storm: Food, greenhouse gas emissions and our changing climate

This report sets out what we know about the food system’s contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Taking a life cycle perspective, it looks at how these emissions arise, both by life cycle stage (from plough to plate to bin) and by food type. It then explores the flip side of the coin: the global impact of a changing climate on how we grow,...

Published in 2008, by Tara Garnett

Core Commitments for Children in Emergencies

UNICEF’s Core Commitments for Children in Emergencies, build on UNICEF’s experience in recent crises and outlines UNICEF’s initial response in protecting and caring for children and women. It states UNICEF’s core response at all levels of the organization.

Published in 2010, by UNICEF

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 WHO

Cuantificación de los beneficios de la lactancia materna: reseña de la evidencia

Este documento proporciona evidencia científica y epidemiológica, en apoyo a la Estrategia Mundial para la Alimentación del Lactante y el Niño Pequeño elaborada por la OMS y UNICEF. La reseña de la evidencia se pronuncia a favor de la protección, la promoción y el apoyo de un recurso vital que garantiza el mejor comienzo posible en la vida de los...

Published in 2002, by OPS - PAHO, Natalia León-Cava, Chessa Lutter, Jay Ross, Luann Martin

Demographics and Climate Change: Future Trends And their Policy Implications for Migration

This working paper seeks to explore the potential impact of future demographic and climate change on migration patterns in developing countries, in order to identify policy implications for international development and evidence gaps that could be plugged with appropriate new research.

Published in 2008, by Richard Black, Dominic Kniveton, Ronald Skeldon, Daniel Coppard, Akira Murata, Kerstin Schmidt-Verkerk

Directives pour mission d'évaluation conjointe HCR/PAM

Ces directives ont pour objet d’assurer une collaboration efficace dans la planification et l’organisation de toutes les activités d’évaluation conjointe HCR/PAM, le respect des procédures et standards convenus, la production cohérente d’informations fiables, et l’usage et l’analyse efficaces de ces informations. Cela contribuera à...

Published in 2008, by PAM - WFP, HCR - UNHCR

Diversity in donorship: the changing landscape of official humanitarian aid

This research analyses the increasingly important role of a growing number of donor governments, particularly in Asia, the Gulf States and central Europe, engaged in the response to humanitarian crises. It suggests that the growth in the number and diversity of official donors presents the humanitarian community with important opportunities for dialogue,...

Published in 2005, by HPG - Humanitarian Policy Group, Adele Harmer, Lin Cotterell

Draft Statement on the Use of the WHO 2006 Growth Standards in Emergency Nutrition Programmes

Draft statement issued on behalf of all the agencies (United Nations and non-governmental) who are members of the working group.

Published in 2007, by SCN Working Group on Nutrition in Emergencies

EAPRO Training for Improved Practice: Public Health and Nutrition in Emergencies

Practical training package for 10 days designed for UNICEF staff covering and public health and nutrition aspects of emergencies from assessment to design and monitoring programmes. 1. Welcome and Introductions 2. Policies, Practices and Decision Making 3. Basic Concepts 4. Rapid Assessments in Emergencies 5. Survey Methodology 6. Survey...

Published in 2003, by Tufts University, CDC/Columbia University for UNICEF

EFSA Distance Learning material

Two versions are available; one for experienced practitioners and the other for relative novices. The training package is an interactive package with many exercises and case studies to work through. Suitable for field staff

Published in 2007, by WFP

Emergency Field Handbook: A Guide for UNICEF Staff

This handbook has been developed as a practical tool for UNICEF field staff to meet the needs of children and women affected by disasters. It is the result of extensive consultation.

Published in 2005, by UNICEF

Emergency Field Operations Pocketbook

The WFP emergency field operations pocketbook is a quick-reference resource for all WFP staff engaged in the provision of humanitarian assistance in the field, whether in Emergency Operations (EMOPs), Protracted Relief and Recovery Operations (PRROs) or Special Operations (SOs).

Published in 2002, by WFP

Emergency Food Security Assessment Handbook, Second Edition

This Handbook is intended for use when an Emergency Food Security Assessment (EFSA) is conducted in emergency situations or protracted crises, whether due to sudden natural disasters, disease, economic collapses or conflicts. An EFSA covers the geographic areas affected and determines the impact on households and their livelihoods.

Published in 2009, by WFP

Emergency Needs Assessment

In emergency situations, WFP is responsible for determining whether external assistance is required to meet immediate food needs and whether food aid is the appropriate form of assistance. WFP and its partners also assess what other interventions are needed to promote food-security objectives. It is difficult to obtain precise estimates of emergency needs in...

Published in 2004, by WFP

Emergency Nutrition Assessment Guidelines for field workers

MANUAL intended to provide straightforward and comprehensive guidance to nutritionists and other fieldworkers responsible for assessments in emergency settings. It is divided into 6 parts including a how to assess the causes of malnutrition and how to interpret assessment data alongside mortality and malnutrition information. The appendices include...

Published in 2004, by Save the Children UK

ENA Software

Software for Emergency Nutrition Surveys developed as part of the SMART initiative to analyse nutrition and mortality surveys. It provides standard analysis of nutrition and mortality surveys in emergency situations and contains therefore all necessary calculations in one programme. The software has different sheets (planning, training, data entry, results,...

Published in 2010, by SMART

Enhanced commitments to women to ensure food security

This is a comprehensive study based on research in 48 countries showing how WFP has implemented its 2003–2007 gender policy. For managers planning a food aid intervention targeting women

Published in 2007, by WFP

Enrichissement en micronutriments: l'experiénce du PAM et la voie à suivre

Les carences en micronutriments représentent une forme de malnutrition pour l'essentiel inapparente, mais souvent très pernicieuse, particulièrement fréquente parmi les populations bénéficiaires de l'aide du PAM dont l'alimentation est insuffisante. Au nombre des effets connus de ces carences figurent les retards de croissance physique et de...

Published in 2004, by PAM - WFP

Enriquecimiento con micronutrientes: experiencia del PMA y futuras posibilidades de acción

Las carencias de micronutrientes representan una forma de malnutrición que si bien en gran parte es invisible y a menudo tiene consecuencias devastadoras, son particularmente prevalentes entre las poblaciones de beneficiarios del PMA que de por sí carecen de alimentos suficientes. Entre los efectos conocidos de dichas carencias se encuentran una...

Published in 2004, by PMA - WFP

Ensuring Optimal Feeding of Infants and Young Children during Emergencies

A summary of the policy of the World Health Organization

Published in 1999, by WHO

Environmental Emergencies. Learning from multilateral response to disasters

This publication, which highlights success stories and lessons learned, is aimed at a wide audience. The intent is to further raise awareness of the devastation that an environmental emergency can cause, and to promote advocacy and action in response. It also aims to highlight the strong need to integrate humanitarian and environmental action.

Published in 2010, by UNEP

Environmental health in emergencies and disasters

This practical guide deals not only with emergency response, but also with measures designed to reduce the impact of disasters on environmental health infrastructure, such as water supply and sanitation facilities. It also aims to strengthen the ability of people to withstand the disruption of their accustomed infrastructure and systems for environmental...

Published in 2002, by IFRC, ISDR, UNHCR, WHO

Evaluaciones de las necesidades de urgencia

En las situaciones de urgencia, el PMA tiene la responsabilidad de determinar si es necesario proporcionar asistencia externa para satisfacer las necesidades alimentarias inmediatas y si la ayuda alimentaria es la forma adecuada de asistencia. El PMA y sus asociados evalúan también qué otras intervenciones son necesarias para favorecer la consecución de...

Published in 2004, by PAM - WFP

Evaluation of Infant Feeding in Emergencies Training Modules 1 & 2

An evaluation to assess Modules 1 & 2 of Infant Feeding in Emergencies distributed between April 2005 and February 2006.

Published in 2006, by Emergency Nutrition Network

Fact sheet on nutrition surveys

A fact sheet intended for UNHCR health, HIV and nutrition coordinators and implementing partners in order to clarify some issues often raised when a survey is undertaken.

Published in 2007, by UNHCR, CDC

Facts for Feeding - Birth, Initiation of Breastfeeding, and the First Seven Days after Birth

Identifies actions health care providers can take during the first week postpartum to help the mother and baby establish and maintain good breastfeeding practices.

Published in 2003, by LINKAGES

Facts for Feeding - Breastmilk: A Critical Source of Vitamin A for Infants and Young Children

Recommends national, community, and household level practices to improve vitamin A status of infants, young children, and pregnant and lactating women.

Published in 2001, by LINKAGES

Facts for Feeding - Guidelines for Appropriate Complementary Feeding of Breastfed Children 6-24 month of age

Provides feeding guidelines for children 6 to 24 months of age

Published in 2004, by LINKAGES, SARA

Facts for Feeding - Recommended Practices to Improve Infant Nutrition during the First Six Months

Provides infant feeding guidelines for the first six months of life. Provides guidelines for activities appropriate to local conditions.

Published in 2004, by LINKAGES

Facts for Life

Each year, around 9 million children die from preventable and treatable illnesses before reaching their fifth birthday. Many die during their first year of life. Countless more children live in precarious situations and face diminished futures. The handbook, Facts for Life, provides vital messages and information for mothers, fathers, other family members...

Published in 2010, by UNICEF, WHO, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNDP, UNAIDS, WFP, World Bank

Family planning: A global handbook for providers

An excellent, recently rewritten, comprehensive and very clear guide to family planning methods. Written with over 20 international collaborating agencies and dozens of individual peer reviewers, including UNFPA and IPPF.

Published in 2007, by WHO, USAID, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

FAO Food Security Information for Action Distance Learning Material

DISTANCE LEARNING materials designed for self-paced e-learning, developed by international experts to support capacity building and on-the-job Training and Workshops at national and local food security information systems and networks. Free of charge registration provides access to the materials.

Published in 2007, by FAO

FAO’s Role & Effectiveness in Emergencies

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: Programme design and implementation Chapter 6: Communication

Published in 2007, by FAO

FAQ - Breastfeeding and HIV/AIDS

Reviews the latest information on the transmission of HIV via breastfeeding and provides programmatic guidance for field activities.

Published in 2004, by LINKAGES

FAQ - Breastfeeding and Maternal Nutrition

Focuses on the impact of maternal nutrition on breastmilk quantity and quality, the nutritional requirements of lactating women, the impact of breastfeeding on maternal health, and implications of this information for programs.

Published in 2004, by LINKAGES

FAQ - Exclusive Breastfeeding: The Only Water Source Young Infants Need

Discusses the nutritional and health consequences of giving infants water during the first six months, and the role of breastfeeding in meeting an infant’s water requirements

Published in 2004, by LINKAGES

FAQ - Lactational Amenorrhea Method

Focuses on LAM as a modern, temporary family planning method for women who breastfeed, and is addressed to the child survival and family planning health care providers.

Published in 2001, by LINKAGES

FAQ - Mother to Mother Support for Breastfeeding

Focuses on a support group method where experienced breastfeeding mothers model optimal breastfeeding practices, share information and experiences, and offer support to other women in an atmosphere of trust and respect

Published in 2004, by LINKAGES

Feeling the heat: Child survival in a changing climate

A child’s chances of survival will increasingly depend on how climate change contributes to existing vulnerabilities and how well communities are able to adapt. This report examines those vulnerabilities and identifies the adaptation measures that can be taken to benefit children.

Published in 2009, by Save the Children

Field Guide on Rapid Nutritional Assessment in Emergencies

Field Guide on Rapid Nutritional Assessment in Emergencies to guide the user through the entire process of designing, planning, implementing and reporting reliable nutrition assessment. Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Planning the survey Chapter 3: Selecting the survey subjects Chapter 4: Selecting the sample Chapter 5: Survey methodology ...

Published in 1995, by WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean

Focusing on anaemia - Towards an integrated approach for effective anaemia control

This document is a joint statement by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund on strategies to combat anaemia.

Published in 2004, by WHO, UNICEF

Focusing Resources on Effective School Health: a FRESH start to enhancing the quality and equity of education

In April, 2000,WHO, UNESCO, UNICEF, and the World Bank jointly organized a strategy session at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal. The strategy session was aimed at raising the education sector’s awareness of the value of implementing an effective school health, hygiene and nutrition programme as one of its major strategies to achieve Education...

Published in 2001, by UNESCO, WHO, UNICEF, World Bank

Food and Nutrition Handbook

This handbook is aimed at WFP staff at all levels who are involved with the delivery of food assistance to WFP beneficiaries. It should serve as both a reference and training manual, providing the staff with - better understanding of food an nutrition issues as they relate to WFP - a practical tool to tackle a number of basic nutrition related tasks,...

Published in 2005, by WFP

Food and Nutrition Needs in Emergencies

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.

Published in 2003, by UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, WHO

Food Assistance in the Context of HIV: Ration Design Guide

WFP supports multiple types of activities that aim to mitigate, prevent, and treat HIV. Given the relatively new nature of many of these programmes, one of the most frequently asked questions is “What food ration should we be giving in the context of the HIV programming that we are doing in country X”?

Published in 2008, by WFP

Food Assistance Programming in the Context of HIV

Food Assistance Programming in the Context of HIV, a joint publication by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the FANTA Project, is a guide developed to improve the design and implementation of food security programs that respond to HIV-related challenges as well as HIV programs that utilize food and food-related activities to achieve HIV-related outcomes.

Published in 2007, by USAID, AED, WFP

Food coupons and bald mountains:What the history of resource scarcity can teach us about tackling climate change

Human Development Report 2007/2008 Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world OCCASIONAL PAPER

Published in 2007, by Roman Krznaric

Food for Nutrition: Mainstreaming Nutrition in WFP

Most preventable deaths among hungry people take place outside emergency contexts. In countries not involved in conflicts or natural disasters, malnutrition is directly implicated in the deaths of millions of children and mothers each year. Thus, WFP's great efforts focused on saving lives in emergencies should be mirrored by efforts aimed at tackling...

Published in 2004, by WFP

Food Scarcity and Famine. Assessment and response

A detailed guide to the accurate assessment of the nutritional needs of populations suffering from the effects of food scarcity and famine.

Published in 1992, by Helen Young

Food Security and Climate Change: The Answer is Biodiversity

Climate change will profoundly affect agriculture worldwide.Food security in many countries is under threat from unpredictable changes in rainfall and more frequent extremeweather. Farmers in poorer countries with harsh climateconditions will likely be most affected. A review of recent scientific literature underlines that the most effective strategy to...

Published in 2008, by Janet Cotter, Reyes Tirado

Food security and livelihood assessments

This book is intended to provide practical guidance to ACF field workers on how to implement a Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) assessment.

Published in 2010, by ACF

Food Security Assessment Guidelines

This document is intended to provide practical guidance to Oxfam staff on how to carry out food security assessments in emergencies. It is expected to be of most use to Food and Nutrition technical staff deployed from Oxfam’s Humanitarian Department in Oxford and Oxfam Regional Management Centres (Humanitarian Support Personnel, Consultants, Public Health...

Published in 2006, by OXFAM GB

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 Helen Young, Susanne Jaspars, Rebecca Brown, Jackie Frize, Hisham Khogali

Food Security Information Systems and Networks

E-learning course designed as a distance learning course to support capacity building and training for national local nutrition and food security information systems and network. This course introduces and provides guidance in assessing different kinds of information systems related to food security analysis.

Published in 2007, by EC/FAO

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Frequently Asked Questions on International Humanitarian, Human Rights and Refugee Law

This document has been prepared by the IASC Task Force (until 2003, known as the IASC Reference Group) on Humanitarian Action and Human Rights as a complement to Growing the Sheltering Tree. The text seeks to respond to questions commonly asked by humanitarian workers on the legal framework that serves as a basis for assistance and protection activities in...

Published in 2004, by IASC

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 ENN, Oxfam

Gender and Climate Change - Women Matter

This paper seeks to draw attention to the gender dimension of climate change and the need to integrate gender issues in climate change responses, with particular emphasis on women’s concerns.

Published in 2009, by UNECA

Gender Handbook in Humanitarian Action

This Handbook sets forth standards for the integration of gender issues from the outset of a new complex emergency or disaster, so that humanitarian services provided neither exacerbate nor inadvertently put people at risk; reach their target audience; and have maximum positive impact. The target audience for this Handbook is field practitioners...

Published in 2006, by Inter-Agency Standing Committee

Gender, Climate Change and Human Security: Lessons from Bangladesh, Ghana and Senegal

This report presents a gendered analysis of how climate change impacts on human security. It also assesses whether adequate scope exists for women to participate in improved human security in a scenario of changing climate. Based on this analysis, recommendations are given for enhancing the integration of a gender perspective in climate change and human...

Published in 2008, by WEDO

Gender: The missing component of the response to climate change

This report analyses the gender dimension of climate change and the policies enacted to mitigate and adapt to its impacts with the aim of developing gender sensitive approaches with regards to mitigation measures, adaptation projects and national regimes. The framework of the study is represented, on the one hand, by the scientific assessment of climate...

Published in 2006, by FAO

Geneva Conventions

The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols are international treaties that contain the most important rules limiting the barbarity of war. They protect people who do not take part in the fighting (civilians, medics, aid workers) and those who can no longer fight (wounded, sick and shipwrecked troops, prisoners of war).

Published in 1949, by ICRC

Global Climate Change: Can Agriculture Cope?

Briefing Dossier

Published in 2010, by Isobel Birch, Richard Grahn

Global Climate Change: implications to international public health policy

Since 1990, WHO has published a series of reports on climate change and has participated in review processes such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. These activities have outlined key characteristics of the health risks generated by a warming and a more variable climate. However many of the projected impacts on health are avoidable, through a...

Published in 2007, by Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Carlos Corvalán, Maria Neira

Global Health Risks: Mortality and burden of disease attributable to selected major risks

This World Health Organization report states that the leading global risks for mortality in the world are high blood pressure (responsible for 13% of deaths globally), tobacco use (9%), high blood glu­cose (6%), physical inactivity (6%), and overweight and obesity (5%). These risks are responsible for raising the risk of chronic diseases such as heart...

Published in 2009, by WHO

Global strategy for infant and young child feeding

Joint Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding to revitalize world attention to the impact that feeding practices have on the nutritional status, growth and development, health, and thus the very survival of infants and young children. The document includes an overview of the challenges, the implementation and the responsibilities involved in...

Published in 2003, by WHO, UNICEF

Growing the Sheltering Tree - Protecting Rights Through Humanitarian Action

The aim of this book is to share the unique, often ingenious methods that humanitarian workers have developed to help people under threat survive, for instance, civilians living in zones of conflict or under oppressive regimes. It will be especially useful for field practitioners as it describes practical methods developed to promote respect for fundamental...

Published in 2002, by IASC

Guidance on Infant feeding and HIV in the context of refugees and displaced populations

The purpose of this Guidance is to provide an overview of the current technical and programmatic consensus on infant feeding and HIV, and give guidance to facilitate effective implementation of HIV and infant feeding programmes in refugee and displaced situations, in emergency contexts, and as an integral element of coordinated approach to public health, HIV...

Published in 2008, by UNHCR

Guidelines for Addressing HIV in Humanitarian Settings

These Guidelines for Addressing HIV in Humanitarian Settings aim to assist humanitarian and AIDS organizations to plan the delivery of a minimum set of HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services to people affected by humanitarian crises.

Published in 2009, by Inter-Agency Standing Committee

Guidelines for Assessment in Emergencies

These guidelines are to be used by members of the Red Cross movement and generalists with no technical knowledge. The guidelines provide advice on the organisation of emergency assessments. IFRC uses the Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA) framework.

Published in 2008, by International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, ICRC

Guidelines for cash transfer programming

Chapters on assessment, decision making, planning activities and resources, targeting and registration, distribution and delivery and monitoring and evaluation. For managers and field workers

Published in 2010, by ICRC, IFRC

Guidelines for emergency assessment

This is a guide for generalists and members of the Red Cross Movement, to advise on assessments. Chapters on concepts, planning an assessment, office-based tasks, fieldwork, analysis and reporting.

Published in 2005, by IFRC

Guidelines for estimating: Food and nutritional needs in emergencies

These guidelines describe the rationale for increasing the ration from 1900 kcals to 2100 kcals and describes the factors to consider when planning a ration.

Published in 1997, by WFP/UNCHR

Guidelines for HIV/AIDS interventions in emergency settings

These guidelines are to help individuals and organizations in their efforts to address the special needs of HIV-infected and HIV-affected people living in emergency situations. The Guidelines are based on the experiences of organizations of the UN system and their NGO partners, and reflect the shared vision that success can be achieved when resources are...

Published in 2004, by IASC

Guidelines for Implementing Interagency Health and Nutrition Evaluations in Humanitarian Crises

Practical guidelines for conducting inter-agency health and nutrition evaluations (IHEs). There are two parts to these guidelines. Part I describes the nature of IHEs and outlines an evaluation framework and methods that can be used to design and conduct IHEs. Part II describes how to manage an IHE evaluation, disseminate the findings and develop an action plan for follow-up.

Published in 2007, by Interagency Health and Nutrition Evaluation (IHE) Initiative

Guidelines for selective feeding programmes in emergency situations

Theory of ESFPs covering design, implementation, feeding and medical protocols, monitoring and evaluation. Includes key tables, e.g., for ration calculations, admissions and discharge, reporting and monitoring. For managers, health and nutrition workers.

Published in 1999, by UNHCR/WFP

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 ...

Published in 2009, by UNHCR, WFP

Guidelines for Selective Feeding: The Management of Malnutrition in Emergencies - Annotated Bibliography

This 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.

Published in 2009, by UNHCR, WFP

Guidelines for the inpatient treatment of severely malnourished children

GUIDELINES with specific instructions for the treatment of severely malnourished children. The aim is to provide practical help for those responsible for the medical and dietary management of such children. Lack of appropriate care leads to diarrhoea, poor appetite, slow recovery and high mortality. There are five sections: A. General principles for...

Published in 2003, by WHO, LSHTM

Guidelines for the management of the severely malnourished

Standard field guidelines with extensive information on the standard protocols and treatment of complications. Suitable for managers and health workers

Published in 2006, by Michael Golden, Yvonne Grellety

Guidelines on food fortification with micronutrients

These guidelines are meant to assist countries in the design and implementation of appropriate food fortification programmes as part of a comprehensive food-based strategy for combating micronutrient deficiencies.

Published in 2006, by WHO, FAO

Guidelines on Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Settings

The primary purpose of these guidelines is to enable communities, governments and humanitarian organizations, including United Nations agencies, NGOs, and CBOs, to establish and coordinate a set of minimum multisectoral interventions to prevent and respond to sexual violence during the early phase of an emergency. The guidelines specifically detail minimum...

Published in 2005, by IASC

Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings

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 and psychosocial support in emergency settings. The guidelines, which were developed by 27 agencies, have been peer reviewed extensively in multiple languages....

Published in 2007, by IASC

Guiding Principles for Complementary Feeding of the Breastfed Child

These guidelines can be used as the basis for developing recommendations on complementary feeding for breastfed children 6-23 months of age. The guiding principles not only set standards for practical dietary guidelines, they also discuss when, where and how young children should be fed. The guidelines are a result of several consultations and documents on...

Published in 2001, by WHO, PAHO

Guiding Principles for Feeding Infants and Young Children during Emergencies

The guiding principles that follow have been prepared to help prevent increased morbidity and mortality; they serve as a basis for action and are intended: —to clarify that optimal practices for feeding infants and young children during emergencies are essentially the same as those that apply in other, more stable conditions; —to inform...

Published in 2004, by WHO

Guiding principles for feeding non-breastfed children 6-24 months age

There are a number of infants who will not enjoy the benefits of breastfeeding. They include children born to HIV-positive mothers, who choose not to breastfeed, and children whose mothers have died. This publication lists nine guiding principles to address the nutritional needs of children who are not breastfed after six months of age. It gives the...

Published in 2005, by WHO

Halving Hunger: Meeting the first Millenium Development Goal through business as unusual

IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan presents a report that challenges the way we address the hunger problem in the world. The report argues that new innovative approaches are needed to meet the first MDG of halving the hungry in the world by 2015. These approaches involve 1.Investing in two core pillars: Agriculture and social protection 2.Bring in new...

Published in 2010, by Shenggen Fan

Handbook for defining and setting up a food security information and early warning system

This handbook describes the Food Security and Early Warning Information System (FSIEWS) method, seeking to enhance the ability of governmental and non-governmental actors to know who, where and why people are affected or threatened by food insecurity. The handbook is addressed to national technical managers, central and decentralized, as well as to their...

Published in 2001, by FAO

Handbook for Emergencies, Third Edition

The handbook is structured as follows: - Section One summarizes UNHCR’s mandate of international protecdtion and the aim and principles of emergency response; - Section Two deals with emergency management; - Section Three covers the vital sectors and problem areas in refugee emergencies, including health, food, sanitation and water, as well as key...

Published in 2007, by UNHCR

Handbook for Registration

Guidelines on registration, documentation and population data management in various operational contexts. It defines new standards and processes for registration. For managers and practioners involved in registration in a camp setting

Published in 2003, by UNHCR

HIV and Infant Feeding - A Guide for health Care Managers and Supervisors

GUIDELINES aimed at health-care managers and supervisors through the process of thinking about and deciding how to organize services. The background to the problem and the organization of the guide are outlined first. The next section describes the need to balance the risk of HIV transmission through breastfeeding against the risk of malnutrition and death...

Published in 2003, by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNAIDS

HIV and infant feeding counselling tools

These tools have been created to help health workers before, during and after a counselling session so that they can better support HIV-positive mothers.

Published in 2005, by Elizabeth Thomas, Ellen G Piwoz, WHO, UNICEF, USAID

HIV and Infant Feeding Guidelines for Decision-Makers

GUIDELINES for decision-makers highlighting areas of special concern around infant feeding and HIV on which policy decisions need to be made locally. They include a list of key steps and questions to guide decision-makers through the process of thinking and deciding on key issues. They are an update of the 1998 version. Key steps for decision-makers 1....

Published in 2003, by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNAIDS

HIV and Infant Feeding Technical Consultation - Consensus Statement

This statement summarizes the information considered in the tecnical consultation, and lists the recommendations from the consultation, which should be considered along with the October 2000 recommendations regarding HIV and infant feeding.

Published in 2006, by WHO

HIV and Infant Feeding. New Evidence and Programmatic Experience

The reports coming out of a three-day meeting in October 2006 that aimed to clarify and refine the existing United Nations guidance and provide updated recommendations regarding HIV and infant feeding. The new evidence and research together with technical and programmatic input is described, which finally led to the ‘HIV and Infant Feeding Technical...

Published in 2007, by WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS, UNFPA

HIV and Infant Feeding: 4 Modules-Pack: 2) A guide for health care managers and supervisors

This Guide is intended to assist mid-level health care managers and supervisors to plan and implement appropriate services. The Guide is generic, in recognition of the fact that different countries are at different stages of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and have varying resources available for dealing with it. It focuses specifically on HIV and infant feeding...

Published in 1998, by UNAIDS, WHO

HIV and Infant Feeding: Update

This document provides the full list of updated HIV and infant feeding recommendations, and an explanation of key points. This information is aimed at programme managers and decision makers, and those who will be in charge of revising national guidelines on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, and infant and young child feeding.

Published in 2007, by WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS, UNFPA

HIV Transmission Through Breastfeeding A Review of Available Evidence

This publication is one of a series on HIV and infant feeding. It presents the scientific evidence relating to the transmission of HIV infection by breastfeeding; this evidence constitutes the basis of the guidelines for decision-makers and health-care managers, issued as separate documents in the series (WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA/UNAIDS)). It describes briefly the...

Published in 2003, by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNAIDS

HIV/AIDS, Nutrition, and Food Security: What We Can Do

A synthesis of existing technical guidance on HIV and AIDS, nutrition, and food security. The synthesis aims to provide decisionmakers and service providers with guidance on how nutrition may be integrated into HIV prevention and AIDS treatment.

Published in 2007, by World Bank

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 ASSAf

Household food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) for Measurement of Food Access Indicators Guide

GUIDELINES outlining Household Food Insecurity Access Scale as a method for assessing food insecurity by looking at food access. This method is an adaptation of an approach used in the USA. The guidelines include the questionnaire and guidance for interviewers as well as details of how to score the results. These guidelines have been designed for those...

Published in 2006, by FANTA

Househols Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS) for Measurement of Household Food Access

This guide provides guidance on the specific data collection needs for the Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS) indicator. It assumes that these questions will be part of a population-based survey instrument and will be applied to all the households in the sample. The HDDS is used as a proxy measure of the socio-economic level of the household.

Published in 2006, by FANTA

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 IFRC

Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response

A handbook and set of training materials which is an output of the Sphere Project, (an inter-agency project) with the aim of improving quality and accountability of humanitarian assistance. It contains the Humanitarian charter, and 5 technical chapters – each with standards, indicators and guidance notes.

Published in 2011, by The Sphere Project

Humanitarian oasis in a parched health sector: Refugees and host populations in eastern and southern Chad

The purpose of the evaluation is to assess the collective humanitarian response to the ongoing humanitarian situation in Chad, and to assist health actors (the Chad Ministry of Health [MoH], UN agencies, the NGO community and donors) to respond to meet the ongoing needs of refugee and host populations in eastern and southern Chad.

Published in 2006, by Dr Markus Michael, Dr Nigel Pearson, Adoum Daliam

Impact measurement and Accountability in Emergencies, the Good Enough Guide

This guide is to assist with the basic elements of accountability and impact measurements. It is an output of the Emergency Capacity Building Project, which is inter-agency and has the aim of addressing the gaps in international emergency response.

Published in 2010, by Oxfam

Improving Nutrition Programmes an Assessment Tool for Action

ASSESSMENT TOOL aimed at strengthening community-based food and nutrition programmes at country level increasing the ability to address the causes of malnutrition. It sets out a methodology in four sections covering programme design, the macroenvironment, the microenvironment, and sustainability. The Assessment Tool is used for making suggestions for action...

Published in 2005, by FAO

India's Undernourished Children: A Call For Reform & Action

The World Bank has supported efforts to improve nutrition in India since 1980 with mixed results. This report aims at helping those who have to make difficult policy decisions, by providing information on the characteristics of child malnutrition across regions and over time and on the effectiveness of the ICDS program in addressing the causes and symptoms...

Published in 2005, by World Bank

Indicators for assessing breastfeeding practices

Report summarizes the discussion and consensus reached on key breastfeeding indicators and specific methodologies for their measurement at the household survey level, following an informal meeting convened by WHO. Key indicators looked at: exclusive breastfeeding; predominant breastfeeding; timely complementary feeding; continued breastfeeding at one and two...

Published in 1991, by WHO

Indicators for assessing health facility practices that affect breastfeeding

Report summarizes the discussion and consensus of an informal meeting on ‘Breastfeeding Indicators for Health Care Facilities’ held by WHO. It includes precise definition for each of the key indicators as well as sample questionnaires for data collection.

Published in 1992, by WHO, UNICEF

Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices. Conclusions of a consensus meeting held 6-8 November 2007 in Washington, DC.

Presents eight core and seven optimal indicators for assessing feeding practices in children 0 to 24 months of age, and includes an update of indicators presented in the WHO/UNICEF document Indicators for assessing breastfeeding practices (1991), as well as important new indicators for assessing feeding practices in children 6 to less than 24 months of age....

Published in 2007, by WHO

Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling - an Integrated Course. Guidelines for Follow-up after training

This resource forms a part of a 5-day course that is designed to provide knowledge and skills to lay counsellors, community health workers, primary health care nurses and doctors, clinicians at first referral level and counsellors involved in the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV. It enables them to counsel and support mothers to carry out...

Published in 2006, by WHO, UNICEF

Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies - a Joint Statement - Haiti

A call for support for appropriate infant and young child feeding and caution about unnecessary and potentially harmful donations and use of breast-milk substitutes. Statement given shortly after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

Published in 2010, by WHO, UNICEF, WFP

Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies - a Joint statement - Model

A model joint statement on IFE worked upon and agreed by participants at a regional IFE workshop in Bali in March 2008. This version is based on a joint statement issued by WHO, UNICEF and IFRC during the Indonesia earthquake response. It was developed in the interest of emergency preparedness in the region.

Published in 2008, by IFE Core Group

Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies - GIFA/ENN Project Final Report July 2003

To strengthen the evidence base of "Infant Feeding in Emergencies Module 1" and "Infant Feeding in Emergencies Module 2" a project was developed between Geneva Infant Feeding Association (GIFA) and the Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN). ENN undertook to evaluate the application of Module 1 to date, and to collate field experiences, in the form of cases...

Published in 2003, by ENN, GIFA

Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies - Media Guide

A two page flyer outlining how the media can help protect and support appropriate and safe infant and young child feeding in emergencies.

Published in 2006, by IFE Core Group

Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies. A generic policy

This is an example of an IFE policy based on the operational guidance (2007) for agencies and organizations to endorse or adapt.

Published in 2007, by Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies Core Group

Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies: Operational Guidance for Emergency Relief Staff and Programme Managers

Operational guidance intended for emergency relief staff and programme managers of all agencies working in emergency programmes, including national governments, UN agencies, NGOs and donors. It applies to emergency situations in all countries, and extends to non-emergency situations.

Published in 2007, by Emergency Nutrition Network

Infant and Young Child Feeding. A tool for assessing national practices, policies and programmes

This tool is designed to assist countries in (a) summarizing current data with regard to infant and young child feeding practices, (b) assessing the strengths and weaknesses of their policies and programmes to promote, protect and support optimal feeding practices, and (c) determining where improvements may be needed to meet the aims and objectives of the...

Published in 2003, by WHO, LINKAGES

Infant and young child nutrition: quadrennial report

Following a summary of the global burden of malnutrition, this document reports on progress in protecting, promoting and supporting appropriate feeding, including implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes.

Published in 2006, by WHO

Infant Feeding in Emergencies - policy, strategy and practice

A report of the main outputs of an ad-hoc group meeting held in the United Kingdom. While much of the material has been updated in more recent publications, it is still a good background document and has a lot of useful material including the ‘Triage for Decision Making’ that many people find useful.

Published in 1999, by Infant Feeding in Emergencies Group

Infant Feeding in Emergencies Module 1

This module covers how to feed infants, by breastfeeding and, when necessary, other options. It also addresses existing recommendations and protective policies, and gives guidance on how to provide adequate support for appropriate infant feeding. Module 1 provides an overall introduction to infant feeding in emergencies, and explains why it is an important...

Published in 2001, by ENN, WHO, UNICEF, LINKAGES, IBFAN

Infant Feeding in Emergencies Module 2 Version 1.1

Module 2 aims to provide health and nutrition workers with the basic knowledge and skills to help both breastfeeding and artificially feeding women. The first task is to support breastfeeding women, so that they do not lose confidence and introduce artificial feeds unnecessarily. The next task is to identify and help women who have feeding difficulties. The...

Published in 2007, by ENN, IBFAN-GIFA, Fondation Terre des hommes, Action Contre la Faim, CARE USA, LINKAGES, UNICEF, UNHCR, WHO

Infant feeding in emergencies: A guide for mothers

A 43-page booklet for mothers and caregivers that was born during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1994, where it was clear many mothers had become so accustomed to bottlefeeding that most women had lost their knowledge on how to breastfeed. While originally developed for emergencies it would be of use to mothers everywhere.

Published in 1997, by WHO Regional Office of Europe

Infant formula - Generic label

A generic label for infant formula

Published in 2000, by Emergency Nutrition Network

Initial Rapid Assessment (IRA) Toolkit

An assessment tool that is being developed to be used in rapid onset emergencies in the first 72 hours.

Published in 2007, by IASC

Innocenti Declaration 2005 on Infant and Young Child Feeding

A call for action following 15 years since the Innocenti Declaration on the Protection, Promotion and Support of Breastfeeding and the 2002 Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding and in order to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. It calls on governments, manufacturers, NGOs, multilateral and bilateral organizations and financial...

Published in 2005, by UNICEF

Integrated management of childhood illness – Model chapter for text books

A clear technical guide for teaching of health workers, using a syndromic approach, e.g., it gives guidance on how to manage a child with fever or diarrhoea, including how to manage the complications of measles or pneumonia, and how to manage these disease at home, in a health centre and in a hospital.

Published in 2001, by WHO/UNICEF

Integrating nutrition and food assistance into HIV care and treatment programmes - DRAFT

This operational guidance manual outlines the potential benefits and challenges of incorporating food and nutritional support into anti-retroviral treatment programmes. The purpose is to assist national governments with the planning and implementation of food assistance programmes and to guide national bodies, implementing NGOs as well as WHO and WFP country staff.

Published in 2008, by WHO, WFP

Integration of HIV/AIDS activities with food and nutrition support in refugee settings: specific programme strategies

This document provides practical guidance on the integration of food and nutrition programmes with support activities for people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) among refugees and host populations. It has been written principally for United Nations agencies, their cooperating partners, and other...

Published in 2004, by UNHCR, WFP

Integration of IYCF Support into CMAM - Facilitator's Guide and Handouts

The purpose of the Facilitator’s Guide - Integration of IYCF Support into CMAM (Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition) is to train health care personnel and community health workers in the integration of recommended infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices within CMAM. These health workers will support mothers/caregivers in prevention as...

Published in 2009, by ENN, IFE Core Group, IASC

Inter-Agency Contingency Planning Guidelines for Humanitarian Assistance

The overall objective of these guidelines (46 pages) is to enhance humanitarian response capacity, predictability, accountability and partnership in order to reach more people with comprehensive, appropriate, needs-based relief and protection in a more effective and timely manner.

Published in 2007, by IASC

Inter-country Training Workshop on Management of Severe Malnutrition

Field training course used for the training workshop is the practical application of the WHO publication Management of severe malnutrition: a manual for physicians and other senior health workers. This training course on hospital-based care of severely malnourished children responds to the urgent need to reduce to reduce paediatric deaths related...

Published in 2002, by WHO

Interpreting and Using Mortality Data in Humanitarian Emergencies - Network Paper Number 52

Technical paper written for non-technical humanitarian actors using mortality data. It provides an overview of epidemiological concepts and indicators of mortality to allow for interpretation and use of mortality reports.

Published in 2005, by Francesco Checchi, Les Roberts, ODI

Joint Assessment Guidelines (with tools and resources)

Manual and training guide to food security and nutrition assessment.

Published in 2004, by UNHCR, WFP

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 John Telford, John Cosgrave , Rachel Houghton

Knowledge Practice and Coverage (KPC) Survey 2000+ : Module 2 on breastfeeding and infant and young child feeding

Knowledge Practice and Coverage (KPC) 2000+ aims to assist projects in planning, conducting, and analyzing a KPC survey, it can be adapted to include infants from 0. Module 2 is the specific section on infant and young child feeding with list of questions (from which one can pick and choose), explanations on how to ask questions, list of indicators and how...

Published in 2006, by USAID

La nutrition en période de crise: l'expérience du PAM et les difficultés à surmonter

Le PAM et ses partenaires ont beaucoup fait ces dix dernières années pour lutter contre la malnutrition en période de crise. La malnutrition étant un facteur important de mortalité, les interventions alimentaires contribuent beaucoup à sauver des vies car elles ont un impact sur la santé et l'état nutritionnel des populations touchées.

Published in 2004, by PMA - WFP

Learning from cash responses to the tsunami. Case studies

These case studies form part of a project to document learning around cash based responses to the Indian Ocean tsunami. For managers and field workers.

Published in 2006, by Lesley Adams, Retno Winahyu

Learning Package on HIV/AIDS Interventions in Emergency settings - A Policy-Level Briefing Session

An integrated learning package has been developed to promote and further support the utilization of the IASC Guidelines for HIV/AIDS Interventions in Emergency Settings. The learning package is comprised of three inter-related sets of materials including: 1. a policy-level briefing session 2. one day workshop design and trainer’s guide 3. a self-study...

Published in 2005, by Inter-Agency Standing Committee

Learning Package on HIV/AIDS Interventions in Emergency Settings – Workshop Design and Trainer’s Guide

An integrated learning package has been developed to promote and further support the utilization of the IASC Guidelines for HIV/AIDS Interventions in Emergency Settings. The learning package is comprised of three inter-related sets of materials including: 1. a policy-level briefing session 2. one day workshop design and trainer’s guide 3. a self-study...

Published in 2005, by Inter-Agency Standing Committee

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 DANIDA

Livelihoods Assessments and Analysis

E-learning course designed as a distance learning course to support capacity building and training for national local nutrition and food security information systems and networkThis course introduces the concept of livelihoods and the components of the livelihoods framework. It also provides guidance on assessing livelihoods in different food security...

Published in 2007, by EC/FAO

Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards

Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) are a set of international guidelines and standards for the design, implementation and assessment of livestock interventions to assist people affected by humanitarian crisis. They are based on livelihood objectives that aim to provide rapid assistance to protect and rebuild the livestock assest of...

Published in 2009, by Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards Project

Living well with HIV/AIDS: A manual on nutritional care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS

This manual provides practical recommendations for a healthy and balanced diet for PLWHA in countries with a low resource base.

Published in 2002, by WHO, FAO

Making pregnancy safer: the critical role of the skilled attendant

This statement clearly argues for the rapid training of skilled birth attendants, and suggests how the role of the traditional birth attendant can be transformed into one in which they encourage women to seek care from a skilled attendant.

Published in 2004, by WHO, International Confederation of Midwives, International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Management of the Child with a Serious Infection or Severe Malnutrition

A MANUAL for use by doctors, senior nurses and other senior health workers who are responsible for the care of young children at the first referral level in developing countries. It presents up-to-date clinical guidelines, prepared by experts, for both inpatient and outpatient care in small hospitals where basic laboratory facilities and essential drugs and...

Published in 2000, by WHO

Markets and emergency needs assessments. Cairo workshop

Proceedings of workshop for managers and field staff

Published in 2006, by Alexis Hoskins

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

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...

Published in 2006, by SMART

Micro-level Practices to Adapt to Climate Change for African Small-scale Farmers

This paper discusses micro-level practices for adapting to climate change that are available to small-scale farmers in Africa. The analysis is based on a review of 17 studies about practices that boost small-scale farmers’ resilience or reduce their vulnerability to observed or expected changes in climate; it includes data from more than 16 countries in...

Published in 2010, by Till Below, Astrid Artner, Rosemarie Siebert, Stefan Sieber

Micronutrient Fortification: WFP Experiences and Ways Forward

Micronutrient deficiencies represent a largely invisible but often devastating form of malnutrition that is particularly prevalent among WFP's beneficiary populations already lacking sufficient food. Known effects of micronutrient deficiencies include impaired physical and mental growth among children, iron-deficiency anemia, maternal mortality, low adult...

Published in 2004, by WFP

Micronutrient Malnutrition- Detection, Measurement and Intervention- a Training Pack for Field Staff

A Training course on micronutrient malnutrition made up of POWER POINT presentations, Handouts and Photo cards aimed at raising awareness of micronutrient deficiencies Session 1: Important Nutrition Concepts Session 2: Micronutrient Deficiency Diseases Session 3: Detection and Prevention

Published in 2003, by UNHCR, CICH

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 FSAU, FAO

Mother to Mother Support Group Methodology and Infant Feeding

The purpose is two-fold: to train community health workers to facilitate infant feeding and mother-to-mother support groups; and to train trainers of community health workers in the methodology for facilitating mother-to-mother support groups related to infant feeding. May be useful to do in a longer-term emergency

Published in 2003, by LINKAGES

Multilateral Treaty Framework: An Invitation to Universal Participation. Focus 2001: Rights of Women and Children

This publication summarises the objectives and key provisions of 23 multilateral treaties related to the advancement of women's rights and the goal of gender equity, deposited with the UN Secretary-General. These include the Convention and protocol on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women; the Convention on the Rights of the Child; and...

Published in 2001, by UN

National training programmes on treatment of severe malnutrition

National programmes supported by WHO. Good examples for trainers.

Published in 2010, by WHO

New Food Based Approaches to Achieve Micronutrient Adequacy in Complimentary Feeding

Power point presentation as a result of an interagency meeting outlining possible solutions to Complimentary Food Supplements as an option for addressing micronutrient deficiencies.

Published in 2002, by ENN

NIPHORN report

Nutrition Information Project for the Horn of Africa, Report of Regional Technical Working Group Meetings.

Published in 2007, by UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office, Tulane University

Nous, les enfants - Honorer les promesses du Sommet mondial pour les enfants

Le rapport du Secrétaire général de l'ONU Kofi Annan Nous, les enfants présente les progrès accomplis dans la réalisation des objectifs fixés lors du Sommet mondial pour les enfants de 1990. Cet ouvrage est un objet de référence essentiel pour tous ceux qui s'intéressent au développement. Il souligne à la fois les succès remportés pendant la...

Published in 2001, by UNICEF

Nutrición y situaciones de urgencia: la experiencia del PMA y los desafiós que tiene ante sí

En el último decenio, el PMA y sus asociados han realizado grandes progresos en la lucha contra la malnutrición en las situaciones de urgencia. Siendo la malnutrición un importante factor determinante de la mortalidad, las intervenciones de suministro de alimentos contribuyen de forma importante a salvar vidas por efecto de su impacto en la nutrición y...

Published in 2004, by PMA - WFP

Nutrient requirements for people living with HIV/AIDS: Report of a technical consultation

Guidelines that contains the current consensus view on the nutritional requirements of people living with HIV/AIDS. Please note that knowledge in this area is evolving and these recommendations may well be subject to change in the near future.

Published in 2003, by WHO

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 FSAU, FAO

Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: A Training Manual

This training course is designed to enable African institutions of higher learning to integrate nutrition and HIV and AIDS into their training programmes. The manual is intended to complement existing materials and curricula, and is targeted at tutors of medical or health sciences, applied human nutrition, dietetics or home economics, and food technology and...

Published in 2004, by FANTA

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 World Bank

Nutrition guidelines for care and support of people living with HIV/AIDS. Zambia

The guidelines are given in 11 chapters. Chapters 2 and 3 give information on basic nutrition for an active and healthy life, and technical information that link nutrition and HIV. Chapters 4 to 9 give advise on the diet, treatment and hermal remedies, positive living and other types of care. Nutritional counselling and education, monitoring and evaluation...

Published in 2004, by Zambia, National Food and Nutrition Commission

Nutrition in Emergencies: WFP Experiences and Challenges

WFP and its partners have made significant strides in the last decade towards tackling malnutrition in emergencies. Malnutrition is an important determinant of mortality, so food interventions play an important part in saving lives through their impact on the nutrition and health of affected populations.

Published in 2004, by WFP

Nutrition in emergencies: WHO publications and documents

List of WHO publications and documents, and documentation to which WHO has contributed

Published in 2006, by WHO Nutrition for Health and Development

Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 01

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 2004, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 03

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 2004, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 04

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 2004, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 05

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 2005, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 06

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 2005, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 07

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 2005, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 08

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 2006, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 09

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 2006, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 10

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 2006, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 11

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 2006, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 12

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 2007, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 13

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 2007, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 14

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 2007, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 15

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 2007, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 17

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Nutrition Manual for humanitarian action

This manual is an important tool for all humanitarian workers involved in the field of nutrition. In addition to presenting an in-depth explanation of human nutrition, nutrition crisis and nutritional programmes within humanitarian intervention, the manual highlights the importance of maintaining a better understanding of the broader impact of war on all...

Published in 2004, by ICRC

Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No 07 - Appropriate Uses of Anthropometric Indices in Children

The use of anthropometry has increased rapidly in recent years. With this wider use, it has become even more important that the interpretation of results, for the individual and for populations, should be correct and well understood. I requested the Advisory Group on Nutrition at its first meeting in 1988 to help to define the issues. This led to the AGN...

Published in 1990, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No 12 - Nutritional Issues in Food Aid

In the past, critics of food aid have argued that it encourages dependency, both by undermining incentives to local food production as well as biasing tastes towards imported commodities. However, as we approach the mid-1990s, there is now a growing understanding that -- when managed appropriately - food aid can provide a positive boost to food security, at...

Published in 1993, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No 20 - Nutrition and HIV/AIDS

This Nutrition Policy Paper is based on the ACC/SCN Symposium on Nutrition and HIV/AIDS held in Nairobi in April 2001. The objective of the symposium was, firstly, to stimulate collaboration between the nutrition and HIV/AIDS communities. The second objective was to examine a broad range of nutrition issues that have a direct bearing on policies and...

Published in 2001, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No 21 - Community-Based Management of Severe Malnutrition in Children

This special issue of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin reports on a WHO/UNICEF/Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN) meeting on community-based management of severe malnutrition in children that took place in Geneva on November 21–23, 2005, and brought together some 50 international experts and representatives from the World Food Programme (WFP), the United...

Published in 2006, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Nutritional care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS: A training course

A training course for caregivers of PLWHA and their families that focuses on practical nutrition care and communication skills

Published in 2009, by WHO

Nutritional status of children under 5 years of age in three hurricane-affected areas of Honduras

This paper presents the results of anthropometric measurements taken of 295 children under 5 years of age from three regions of Honduras that were affected by Hurricane Mitch, a major storm that struck Central America in the fall of 1998. Published in: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública / Pan American Journal of Public Health, 2000 8(6):380-384, ISSN...

Published in 2000, by PAHO, Roberto E. Barrios, James P. Stansbury, Rosa Palencia, Marco T. Medina

NutVal Version 2.2

NutVal is a spreadsheet application for planning and monitoring the nutritional content of general food aid rations.

Published in 2006, by Institute of Child Health on behalf of WFP and UNHCR

Objetivos de desarrollo del Milenio 2009

La Declaración del Milenio fijó el 2015 como fecha límite para alcanzar la mayoría de los objetivos de desarrollo del Milenio (ODM), que establecieron los parámetros cuantitativos para reducir todas las formas de extrema pobreza a la mitad. El presente informe ofrece una evaluación anual del año 2009 del progreso hacia el logro de los ODM.

Published in 2009, by UN DESA

Older People in Disasters and Humanitarian Crises: Guidelines for Best Practice

Guidelines for best practice aimed at helping relief agencies meet the special needs of older people in emergencies. General guidelines based on wide-ranging new research from Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas and many years' global disaster experience.

Published in 2007, by HelpAge International, UNHCR

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

IASC's operational guidance on designating sector or cluster leads in major new Emergencies.

Published in 2007, by Inter-Agency Standing Committee

Operational Guidance on Designating Sector/Cluster Leads in Ongoing Emergencies

IASC's operational guidance on designating sector/cluster leads in ongoing emergencies.

Published in 2007, by Inter-Agency Standing Committee

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 WHO, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child health

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict

The protocol sets 18 as the minimum age for direct participation in hostilities, for recruitment into armed groups, and for compulsory recruitment by governments. States may accept volunteers from the age of 16 but must deposit a binding declaration at the time of ratification or accession, setting out their minimum voluntary recruitment age and outlining...

Published in 2000, by UN

Out with the old? In with the new? Implications of the new WHO 2006 Child Growth Standards

Presentation of how the growth standards published by WHO will affect assessment (individual and population).

Published in 2006, by Alison Tumilowicz, Megan Deitchler

Oxfam's Approach to Nutrition Surveys in Emergencies

FIELD GUIDE on conducting nutrition surveys including anthropometry, the causes of malnutrition and report writing. Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Why conduct a nutrition survey Chapter 3: A public nutrition approach Chapter 4: The causes of malnutrition Chapter 5: What to assess Chapter 6: Nutritional survey methods Chapter 7: Analysis ...

Published in 2001, by Oxfam

Para la Vida

Para la Vida tiene por objeto proporcionar a las familias y a las comunidades la información que necesitan para salvar y mejorar las vidas de los niños y niñas. Los padres, las madres, los abuelos, los cuidadores y los jóvenes encontrarán, en esta fuente de información práctica, respuestas a sus dudas e inquietudes sobre la crianza de los niños y...

Published in 2010, by UNICEF, OMS - WHO, UNESCO, FNUAP - UNFPA, PNUD, ONUSIDA - UNAIDS, PMA - WFP, Banco Mundial - World Bank

Participation for Empowerment: A manual for Development Agents

Participation for empowerment is a manual to assist in training field staff to adopt techniques and attitudes that promote community empowerment in their day-to-day field activities and in their program planning. This manual is presented in the form of a workshop, lasting approximately five days, with all the instructions needed to replicate the workshop.

Published in 2001, by Shannon Mason, Judiann McNulty, Judi Aubel

Pneumonia the forgotten killer

An important reminder of the lethal effects of this most common of infectious diseases in adults and children.

Published in 2006, by UNICEF, WHO

Policy related to the acceptance, distribution and use of milk products in refugee settings

Policy document for staff working in emergency settings and especially those involved with food ration planning.

Published in 2006, by UNHCR

Population Challenges and Development Goals

The present report has two objectives. First, it presents a succinct overview of demographic trends worldwide, for major areas and selected countries. It covers population size and growth, urbanization and city growth, population ageing, fertility and contraception, mortality and international migration. Second, the report considers the contribution of the...

Published in 2005, by UN DESA

Pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and neonatal care: a guide for essential practice

This guide provides evidence-based recommendations to guide health-care professionals in the management of women during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum period, and post abortion, and newborns during their first weeks of life. It is a guide for clinical decision-making. It facilitates the collection, analysis, classification and use of relevant...

Published in 2006, by WHO Department of Making Pregnancy Safer

Preventing and controlling micronutrient deficiencies in people affected by the Asian tsunami

In any humanitarian crisis, micronutrient deficiencies can easily develop or be made worse if they are already present. This happens because livelihoods and food crops are lost, food supplies are interrupted, diarrhoeal diseases break out and cause malabsorption and nutrient losses, and infectious diseases suppress the appetite while increasing the need for...

Published in 2005, by WHO, UNICEF

Preventing and controlling micronutrient deficiencies in populations affected by an emergency

Provides guidance on the composition of multiple micronutrient supplements for vitamins and minerals and for the fortification of general rations for women and children.

Published in 2006, by WHO, WFP, UNICEF

PreventionWeb - Serving the information needs of the disaster reduction community

PreventionWeb is a platform that serves the information needs of the disaster risk reduction community, including the development of information exchange tools to facilitate collaboration.

Published in 2010, by PreventionWeb

Programme Strategies for Integration of HIV/AIDS, Food and Nutrition Activities in Refugee Settings

In 2003, The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched a joint effort to develop, through multi-site field research in refugee communities in Africa, a set of strategies for using food and nutrition-based interventions to support HIV prevention,...

Published in 2006, by UNAIDS, UNHCR, WFP

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 UNICEF

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 UNICEF

Progress for children. A world fit for children. Statistical review

The sixth issue of Progress for Children reports on the status of child-specific targets set by world leaders at the May 2002 UN General Assembly Special Session on Children. This special edition examines more than 35 key indicators in the four broad areas identified at the Special Session as requisite to building ‘A World Fit for Children’. It also...

Published in 2007, by UNICEF

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 UNICEF

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 FAO

Protecting Health from Climate Change: Connecting Science Policy and People

A new report from WHO presents an overview of the science of the links between climate change and human health. It provides an update of the evidence on health risks caused by climate change, describes which populations are most vulnerable, and outlines the actions that will be necessary to protect health from climate change.

Published in 2009, by WHO

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 Ethiopia Federal Ministry of Health

Public Health Guide for Emergencies

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 training.

Published in 2008, by John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health , IFRC

Quality and Accountability Initiative: Questions and answers

During the past decade the humanitarian community has initiated a number of inter-agency initiatives to improve accountability, quality and performance in humanitarian action. Four of the most widely known initiatives are the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP) , Humanitarian Accountability Partnership...

Published in 2006, by SPHERE, ALNAP, HAP, People in Aid

Quantifying the Benefits of Breastfeeding: A Summary of the Evidence

Each year new evidence contributes to our knowledge of breastfeeding's role in the survival, growth, and development of a child as well as the health and well-being of a mother. This publication provides scientific and epidemiological evidence in support of the WHO and UNICEF Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding. This summary of the evidence...

Published in 2002, by PAHO, Natalia León-Cava, Chessa Lutter, Jay Ross, Luann Martin

Rapid health assessment protocols for emergencies

A manual or rapid health assessment protocols, including epidemics and outbreaks of diarrhoeal diseases.

Published in 1999, by WHO

Reaching optimal iodine nutrition in pregnant and lactating women and young children. Joint statement by WHO & UNICEF

The statement presents the conclusions of a technical consultation and subsequent follow up meeting in 2005, on the prevention and control of iodine deficiency in pregnant and lactating women and in children less than two years of age.

Published in 2007, by WHO, UNICEF

Recursos Efectivos en Salud Escolar (RESE): un enfoque nuevo para mejorar la calidad y la equidad educativa

En Abril del año 2000 la Organizacion Mundial de la Salud, UNESCO, UNICEF y el Banco Mundial, colaboraron en la organización de una sesión de trabajo conjunto en el Foro Mundial Educativo desarrollado en Dakar, Senegal. Esta sesión estratégica, se propuso la meta de aumentar el interés y la concientización del sector educativo acerca del valor de...

Published in 2001, by UNESCO, OMS - WHO, UNICEF, Banco Mundial - World Bank

Refugee Health: An approach to emergency situations

A manual on emergency health care. It deals with refugees and internally displaced persons, and what a health agency can do to relieve their plight. It focuses on policies rather than on practical aspects, and is meant to act as a guide to decision-makers.

Published in 1997, by Medecins Sans Frontieres

Refugee Nutrition Information System No 01 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations

The UN ACC/SCN decided to set up an information system to track the nutrition of refugees and displaced people. Distributing this information should help to bring action to improve the situation. This is the first of a regular series of reports, to be issued every two months, starting with the problems in Africa.

Published in 1993, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Refugee Nutrition Information System No 02 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations

The UN ACC/SCN decided to set up an information system to track the nutrition of refugees and displaced people. Distributing this information should help to bring action to improve the situation. This is the second of a regular series of reports, issued every two months, starting with the problems in Africa. The information available is mainly about...

Published in 1993, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Refugee Nutrition Information System No 03 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations

The UN ACC/SCN decided to set up an information system to track the nutrition of refugees and displaced people. Distributing this information should help to bring action to improve the situation. This is the third of a regular series of reports, issued every two months, starting with the problems in Africa.

Published in 1994, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Refugee Nutrition Information System No 04 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations

The UN ACC/SCN decided to set up an information system to track the nutrition of refugees and displaced people. Distributing this information should help to bring action to improve the situation. This is the fourth of a regular series of reports, to be issued every two months, starting with the problems in Africa.

Published in 1994, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Refugee Nutrition Information System No 05 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations

The UN ACC/SCN decided to set up an information system to track the nutrition of refugees and displaced people. Distributing this information should help to bring action to improve the situation. This is the fifth of a regular series of reports, issued every two months. This report is the first in the series to include reports on some Asian refugees and...

Published in 1994, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Refugee Nutrition Information System No 06 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations

The UN ACC/SCN decided to set up an information system to track the nutrition of refugees and displaced people. Distributing this information should help to bring action to improve the situation. This is the sixth of a regular series of reports, issued every two months. This report is the second in the series to include reports on some Asian refugees and...

Published in 1994, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Refugee Nutrition Information System No 07 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations

The UN ACC/SCN decided to set up an information system to track the nutrition of refugees and displaced people. Distributing this information should help to bring action to improve the situation. This is the seventh of a regular series of reports, issued every two months. This report is the third in the series to include reports on some Asian refugees and...

Published in 1994, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Refugee Nutrition Information System No 08 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations

Every two months, The UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people. Distributing this information is intended to raise awareness and facilitate action to improve the situation. This is the eighth of a regular series of reports, and is the fourth in the series to include reports on some Asian refugees and displaced people.

Published in 1994, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Refugee Nutrition Information System No 09 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations

Every two months, the UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people. Distributing this information is intended to raise awareness and facilitate action to improve the situation. This is the ninth of a regular series of reports, and is the fifth in the series to include reports on some Asian refugees and displaced people.

Published in 1995, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Refugee Nutrition Information System No 10 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations

Every two months, the UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people. Distributing this information is intended to raise awareness and facilitate action to improve the situation. This is the tenth of a regular series of reports, and is the sixth in the series to include reports on some Asian refugees and displaced people.

Published in 2009, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Refugee Nutrition Information System No 11 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations

Every two months, the UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people. Distributing this information is intended to raise awareness and facilitate action to improve the situation. This is the eleventh of a regular series of reports, and is the seventh in the series to include reports on some Asian refugees and displaced people.

Published in 1995, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Refugee Nutrition Information System No 12 - 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 normally every two months. Distributing this information is intended to raise awareness and facilitate action to improve the situation. This is the twelfth of a regular series of reports. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and NGO....

Published in 1995, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Refugee Nutrition Information System No 13 - 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 normally every two months. Distributing this information is intended to raise awareness and facilitate action to improve the situation. This is the thirteenth of a regular series of reports. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and...

Published in 1995, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Refugee Nutrition Information System No 14 - 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 normally every two months. Distributing this information is intended to raise awareness and facilitate action to improve the situation. This is the fourteenth of a regular series of reports. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and...

Published in 1996, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Refugee Nutrition Information System No 15 - 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 normally every two months. Distributing this information is intended to raise awareness and facilitate action to improve the situation. This is the fifteenth of a regular series of reports. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and...

Published in 1996, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Refugee Nutrition Information System No 16 - 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 sixteenth 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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Refugee Nutrition Information System No 17 - 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 seventeenth 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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Refugee Nutrition Information System No 19 - 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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Refugee Nutrition Information System No 22 - Supplement - Report on the Nutrition Situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

This paper aims to summarise the sometimes conflicting information currently available on the nutrition and food security situation in the DPRK. First, it gives some background information - a context in which to understand the current situation. It then summarises the available information and data on nutrition and food security in the country, pointing out...

Published in 1997, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Refugee Nutrition Information System No 40 - 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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Relactation: Review of Experiences and Recommendations for Practice

Often re-lactation is considered as an exceptional experience. However, evidence shows that most women can relactate if they are motivated and have adequate information and support. This review documents experiences and provides practical guidelines for health workers caring for women and children to assist mothers to relactate.

Published in 1998, by WHO

Reporting Food Security Information

E-learning course designed as a distance learning course to support capacity building and training for national local nutrition and food security information systems and network. The four lessons provide guidance in designing, writing and increasing the impact of food security reports in different contexts.

Published in 2007, by FAO/EC

Reproductive Health Assessment Toolkit for Conflict-Affected Women

A toolkit which can be used to quantitatively assess reproductive health risks, services, and outcomes in conflict-affected women between 15 and 49 years of age. Survey data can be used to compare a population across points in time or to make comparisons across populations.

Published in 2007, by CDC, USAID

Reproductive Health in refugee situations, an Inter-agency Field Manual

A manual specifically on reproductive health, produced by a group of agencies. The purposes of the manual are: 1) to serve as a tool to facilitate discussion and decision-making in the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of RH interventions; 2) to guide field staff in introducing and/or strengthening RH interventions in refugee situations,...

Published in 1999, by UNHCR

Resetting the rules of engagement: Trends and issues in military-humanitarian relations

This report reviews the trends and makes recommendations to the humanitarian and defense sectors regarding the challenges facing the humanitarian and military communities, including how to maintain the integrity of humanitarian principles in combined political, military and humanitarian efforts; how to design and resource military roles in protecting...

Published in 2006, by HPG - Humanitarian Policy Group

Rethinking food aid to fight AIDS

This document reviews food aid strategies using an HIV/AIDS lens in order to reduce the risk and mitigate the impact of the pandemic. For managers planning an intervention to assist HIV/AIDS affected people

Published in 2004, by IFPRI/WFP

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

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 feeding, measles vaccination, vitamin A supplementation and bed net distributions). The overall aims of the review were to identify gaps in the literature and...

Published in 2004, by Emergency Nutrition Network

Safe preparation, storage and handling of powdered infant formula

Powdered infant formula (PIF) has been associated with serious illness and death in infants due to infections with Enterobacter sakazakii and Salmonella enterica. These guidelines are a generic document that will provide guidance and support for countries and governments. When adapted at the country level, conditions (e.g., climatic and socioeconomic...

Published in 2007, by WHO, FAO

Savoir pour Sauver

Savoir pour Sauver a pour but de donner aux familles et aux communautés les informations dont elles ont besoin pour protéger les enfants et améliorer leur existence. Les parents, les grandsparents, les autres personnes qui s’occupent d’enfants et les jeunes peuvent consulter cette source d’informations pratiques pour y trouver les réponses à leurs...

Published in 2010, by UNICEF, OMS - WHO, UNESCO, FNUAP - UNFPA, PNUD - UNDP, ONUSIDA - UNAIDS, PAM - WFP, Banque mondiale - World Bank

SCN News No 02 - First Report on the World Nutrition Situation

The first United Nations inter-agency report on the World Nutrition Situation was issued in December 1987, by the ACC/SCN. Trends in the numbers of underfed and malnourished people in developing countries are described, starting in the sixties and highlighting changes in the last five years, using indicators of population, food availability, child nutrition...

Published in 1989, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

SCN News No 03 - Does Cash Cropping Affect Nutrition

Food first, or agriculture for export? Does growing food protect nutrition, whereas cash-cropping cause famines? Are subsistence farmers lured into the cash economy, growing inedible crops and then finding themselves unable to feed their families? Based on recent research and new thinking, some tentative answers to such questions are now being found.

Published in 1989, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

SCN News No 05 - Nutrition and School Performance

The education of children all over the world is being held back by malnutrition. In humanitarian terms, it makes no sense that the children who manage to get to school cannot benefit fully from their education, because they are already malnourished, because they are currently hungry, or because of infection. Nearly 90% of the world's school children will be...

Published in 1990, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

SCN News No 07 - Refugees' Nutrition Crisis

The main focus of this SCN News is on refugees' nutrition crisis, as serious problems are experienced in meeting the nutritional needs of refugees. Furthermore, micronutrient intake and its relation to income and prices as well as the link between breastfeeding, birth spacing and nutrition are discussed.

Published in 1991, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

SCN News No 10 - Nutrition and Food Aid; Nutrition and Human Rights

Although the idea that adequate nutrition should be regarded as a fundamental human right appears in many different contexts in international law - these are not binding in practice. Another focus of this SCN News is on Nutrition Transition: Large shifts in dietary composition are taking place in some lower income countries with important implications for...

Published in 1993, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

SCN News No 12 - The Role of Care in Nutrition; Specific Deficiencies versus Growth Failure

The three main features of this issue of SCN News are: The role of care in nutrition - The causes of poor child nutrition are undergoing a substantial reassessment with recent understanding of the importance of care. Specific deficiencies versus growth failure - Two types of responses have been identified when a child's intake of an essential nutrient is...

Published in 1995, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

SCN News No 15 - Effective Programmes in Africa for Improving Nutrition

This SCN News presents an overview of the Symposium 'Effective Programmes in Africa for Improving Nutrition, including Household Food Security' which was held at the SCN's 23rd Session in Accra, Ghana in February 1996.

Published in 1997, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

SCN News No 20 - Nutrition and Agriculture

This issue of SCN News deals with nutrition and agriculture.

Published in 2000, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

SCN News No 25 - School-age Children: Their Health and Nutrition

This issue of SCN News features a comprehensive review of the nutrition and health status of school-age children, an initiative of the SCN Working Group on Nutrition of the School-Age Child chaired very ably during 2000-2002 by Don Bundy of the World Bank. For many decades a neglected age group, the nutritional well being of children six to 18 years reflects...

Published in 2002, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

SCN News No 34 - Working Together to End Child Hunger and Undernutrition

This SCN News features papers based on presentations made at the Symposium at the 34th SCN Session at FAO, Rome 26 February 2007. The Symposium focused on what we know in theory and what are best practices for creating increased system cohesiveness at all levels in order to accelerate progress towards ending child hunger and undernutrition.

Published in 2007, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

SCN News No 38: Climate Change: food and nutrition security implications

This edition of the SCN News is rightfully dedicated to climate change and its implications on food and nutrition. It is hoped to be thought provoking, showing you how climate change impacts on nutrition. The topic has been approached from very different angles: impacts on food security (in general, in the Asia-Pacific region and sub-Saharan Africa),...

Published in 2010, by SCN

Scurvy and its prevention and control in major emergencies

Although this document is intended primarily as a backdrop for interventions involving refugees, it is also suitable as a guide for ensuring adequate vitamin C intake in most emergency settings. It reviews the strategies and past experiences of the prevention of scurvy in refugee situations, and analyses factors influencing their success or failure. It...

Published in 1999, by WHO

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 Catherine Longley

SENAC Brief: Why pay attention to markets?

Emergency Needs Assessments and the Impact of Food Aid on Local Markets. Briefing paper explaining importance of market analysis for programme managers

Published in 2006, by SENAC - Strengthening Emergency Needs Assessment Capacity

Serie de informes sobre el hambre en el mundo - El hambre y los mercados

En la tercera edición de la Serie de informes sobre el hambre en el mundo se analizan las relaciones complejas que se establecen entre los mercados y el hambre. El presente informe no podría ser más pertinente ni oportuno. En los últimos años, hemos presenciado las consecuencias adversas que el aumento de los precios de los alimentos ha tenido en el...

Published in 2009, by PMA - WFP

Serie de informes sobre el hambre en el mundo 2007: El hambre y la salud

Podemos ganarle la batalla al hambre ahora, en nuestra época. Disponemos de la tecnología, los conocimientos y los recursos necesarios para satisfacer las necesidades de todas las personas que padecen hambre en el mundo. Lo que hace falta para que las imágenes de niños desnutridos se conviertan en un problema del pasado y no en una vergüenza del...

Published in 2007, by PMA - WFP

Shared experiences in infant and young child feeding in emergencies

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 infant feeding in emergencies.

Published in 2003, by Emergency Nutrition Network

Solidarity and Soup Kitchens: A review of principles and practice for food distribution in conflict. HPG Report 7

Technical paper of current principles and practice for food distribution in conflict. The objective of the report is to assist humanitarian agencies develop a more principled approach to food distribution.

Published in 2000, by Susanne Jaspars, HPG - Humanitarian Policy Group

Sphere Nutrition Training Modules

Nutrition training modules available on the Internet. They aim to improve the technical capacity for humanitarian response in nutrition. They are aimed at staff with some responsibility for designing or monitoring nutrition related projects and aim to ensure an understanding of the scope and content of Standards in the Food Security, Nutrition and Food Aid...

Published in 2011, by Sphere Project

State of the world’s mothers 2007: Saving the lives of children under 5

This report clearly links the health of children with the health of mothers.

Published in 2007, by Save the Children

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 World Bank

Sustainable livelihoods guidance sheets

As a whole, this set of Guidance Sheets attempts to summarise and share emerging thinking on the sustainable livelihoods approach. It does not offer definitive answers and guidelines. Instead, it is intended to stimulate readers to reflect on the approach and make their own contributions to its further development.

Published in 1999, by UK Department for International Development

Targeting Food Aid in Emergencies - Special Supplement

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 population group. A broad definition of emergency contexts has been used, to include rapid and slow onset emergencies and responses aimed at emergency...

Published in 2004, by Emergency Nutrition Network

The Champion Community Initiative: Origins, Principles, and Potential

Provides a clear overview of the main principles of community mobilisation in development contexts.

Published in 2006, by Renata Seidel

The Code of Conduct

The Code of Conduct for The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief, was developed and agreed upon by eight of the world's largest disaster response agencies in the summer of 1994. The Code of Conduct, like most professional codes, is a voluntary one. It lays down ten points of principle which all humanitarian actors...

Published in 1994, by IFRC/ICRC

The environmental food crisis – The environment’s role in averting future food crises

A new rapid response assessment report released by UNEP warns that up to 25% of the world's food production may become lost due to environmental breakdown by 2050 unless action is taken. The report provides the first summary by the UN of how climate change, water stress, invasive pests and land degradation may impact world food security, food prices and life...

Published in 2009, by Christian Nellemann, Monika MacDevette, Ton Manders, Bas Eickhout, Birger Svihus, Anne Gerdien Prins, Bjørn P. Kaltenborn

The Household Economy Approach

The aim of this manual is to describe the components of the HEA and the practical techniques needed to use them. It is primarily intended as a reference for people who have already had, or are engaged in, practical training in HEA. We suggest that readers of the manual who wish to use the approach to make significant operational decisions (for example,...

Published in 2000, by Save the Children UK

The impact of mother-to-mother support on optimal breast-feeding: a controlled community intervention trial in peri-urban Guatemala City, Guatemala

The objective of this article is to assess the impact that a mother-to-mother support program operated by La Leche League Guatemala had on early initiation of breast-feeding and on exclusive breast-feeding in peri-urban Guatemala City, Guatemala. Published in: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública / Pan American Journal of Public Health, 2002; 12(3),...

Published in 2002, by PAHO, Kirk Dearden, Mekibib Altaye, Irma de Maza, Maritza de Oliva, Maryanne Stone-Jimenez, Barton R. Burkhalter, Ardythe L. Morrow

The Impact of Natural Disasters on Children Morbidity in Rural Mexico

Human Development Report 2007/2008 Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world. OCCASIONAL PAPER

Published in 2007, by Alejandro de la Fuente, Ricardo Fuentes

The Management of Nutrition in Major Emergencies

This manual is intended to help nutrition, health and other professionals involved in the management of major emergencies with a nutritional component, whether at local, national or international level. Chapter 1: Meeting nutritional requirements Chapter 2: Major nutritional deficiencies in emergencies Chapter 3: Assessment and surveillance of...

Published in 2000, by WHO

The meaning and measurement of acute malnutrition in emergencies: a primer for decision-makers - Network Paper Number 56

Technical paper aimed at non-technical humanitarian actors, especially decision-makers, understand, interpret and use nutritional data by looking at how it is collected, analysed and used. It also looks at how technical issues are linked to pragmatic institutional constraints.

Published in 2006, by Helen Young, Susanne Jaspars, ODI

The Millennium Development Goals Report 2009

The Millennium Development Goals report presents a yearly assessment of global progress towards achieving the MDGs.Less than six years away from the 2015 deadline to achieve the MDGs, this report warns that despite many successes, overall progress has been too slow for most of the targets to be met by 2015. Major advances in the fight against poverty and...

Published in 2009, by UN DESA

The neglected crisis of undernutrition: Evidence for action

A report preceding the development of DFID’s strategy to 2015 for tackling undernutrition in the developing world. The forthcoming DFID strategy will look at a range of measures to tackle nutrition directly and, critically, to address the drivers of undernutrition, such as food insecurity, ill health, lack of social protection and gender inequality. The...

Published in 2009, by DFID

The optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding: a systematic review

This document summaries and reviews studies comparing the effects of exclusive breastfeeding for six months versus exclusive breastfeeding for three to four months on child health, growth and development, and on maternal health.

Published in 2001, by Michael S. Kramer, Risuka Kakuma

The practitioners Guide to the Household Economy Approach

A teaching manual describing the components of the Household Economy Approach and the practical techniques needed to use them.

Published in 2008, by SCUK

The Right to Adequate Food in Emergencies

This study was undertaken by the FAO Legal Office within the broader context of FAO's activities to clarify the normative content of the right to adequate food. In particular, it builds on Legislative Study No. 68, which was published in 1999 and contains extracts from a wide range of international and regional instruments relating to the right to adequate...

Published in 2002, by FAO

The Sphere Project Evaluation Report

This evaluation documents the achievements of the Sphere Project, the important ways in which it has made strides towards the achievement of its stated objectives, and the areas in which it might focus its future efforts as it continues to mature.

Published in 2004, by Marci Van Dyke, Ronald Waldman

The state of Food Insecurity in the World 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 glimmer of hope, with the first fall since 1995. But that still leaves nearly a billion people going hungry, and is it too early to know if this is the...

Published in 2010, by FAO, WFP

The state of the world population 2009

How do population dynamics affect greenhouse gases and climate change? Will urbanization and an ageing population help or hinder efforts to adapt to a warming world? And could better reproductive health care and improved relations between women and men make a difference in the fight against climate change? Find the answers in the State of World Population 2009.

Published in 2009, by UNFPA

The state of the world population 2010

Ten years ago, the United Nations Security Council passed a landmark resolution calling on governments to protect women from rape during war time and to tap the power of women to keep the peace and rebuild societies once the fighting has stopped. The State of World Population 2010 shows what has been accomplished in places affected by ongoing conflicts or by...

Published in 2010, by UNFPA

The use of nutrition indicators in surveillance systems, Technical Paper No. 2

The aim of this paper is to improve understanding of the use of nutritional indicators in surveillance systems that feed into Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information Mapping Systems (FIVIMS) both at global and at national level1. The focus is on nutritional indicators (i.e. anthropometry and indicators of micronutrient status) rather than the total...

Published in 2001, by Jeremy Shoham, Fiona Watson, Carmel Dolan

Thematic Guidelines, Nutrition and Health; Guidelines for the use of Nutritional Information in VAM

Guidelines developed for VAM staff on how to collect and interpret nutrition information. Useful for staff unfamiliar with nutrition indicators and includes how to assess nutrition status and the importance of indicators in understanding the food security situation of a population, but does not describe in detail how to conduct a nutrition survey. Gives...

Published in 2006, by Eric Kenefick, WFP

Thiamine deficiency and its prevention and control in major emergencies

This is a document on thiamine deficiency, which looks at the risk factors leading to outbreaks of thiamine deficiency, describes the signs and symptoms of the deficiency disease, and discusses the strategies to prevent the deficiency in populations affected by major emergencies. A literature review of the epidemiology of thiamine deficiency, the...

Published in 1999, by WHO

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Tool Kit for Monitoring and Evaluating Breastfeeding Practices and Programs

The purpose of this toolkit is to provide program managers with practical methods to facilitate the monitoring and evaluation of breastfeeding practices and to help them assess breastfeeding programs and practices. Sample questionnaires are provided and illustrations given of the minimal questions required for various program purposes

Published in 1996, by Wellstart, USAID

Toolkit for addressing nutrition in emergency situations

The toolkit is intended as an easy-to-use field guide that outlines the key basic interventions for nutritional support to individuals and groups during an emergency situation. In most emergencies, we focus on two key aspects: risk assessment and risk management. This toolkit focuses on risk management. What it takes to ensure that emergency needs are met...

Published in 2008, by IASC

Trainer’s Package for Sphere “Technical Sectors” Course

The materials found here, taken together, support a concise and cohesive 5 - day workshop that will guide participants through the entire Sphere handbook (2004 Edition). It provides insights into many of the typical problems found in the sectors of Water, Sanitation, Food Aid, Nutrition, Food Security, Settlement, Shelter and Health. It also illustrates each...

Published in 2007, by Jim Good, Interworks

Training course on Child Growth Assessment

This course has been designed for health care providers who measure and assess the growth of children or supervise these activities. It teaches the skills and knowledge needed to measure the weight and length/height of children; plot and interpret growth measurements; and counsel mothers about growth and feeding. Course participants may include...

Published in 2006, by WHO

Training course on the management of severe malnutrition

Seven modules with instructors’ and participants’ guides.

Published in 2003, by WHO

Training in the management of severe malnutrition

this training course on hospital based care of severely malnourished children responds to the urgend need to reduce paediatric deaths related to severe malnurtition in many developing countries

Published in 2003, by WHO

Training Package of Materials for the Course Food and Nutrition Surveillance and Emergency - Unit I

This training course provides an understanding of the nutritional outcomes of emergencies (malnutrition, mortality and morbidity); and also the causes of malnutrition and mortality in emergencies (the process and dynamics of an emergency). The course has an operational focus, and at the same time incorporates relevant applied research.. The course itself is...

Published in 2005, by University of Nairobi, FSAU, FAO

Training Package of Materials for the Course Food and Nutrition Surveillance and Emergency - Unit II

This training course provides an understanding of the nutritional outcomes of emergencies (malnutrition, mortality and morbidity); and also the causes of malnutrition and mortality in emergencies (the process and dynamics of an emergency). The course has an operational focus, and at the same time incorporates relevant applied research.. The course itself is...

Published in 2005, by University of Nairobi, FSAU, FAO

Training Package of Materials for the Course Food and Nutrition Surveillance and Emergency - Unit III

This training course provides an understanding of the nutritional outcomes of emergencies (malnutrition, mortality and morbidity); and also the causes of malnutrition and mortality in emergencies (the process and dynamics of an emergency). The course has an operational focus, and at the same time incorporates relevant applied research.. The course itself is...

Published in 2005, by University of Nairobi, FSAU, FAO

UNHCR policy related to the acceptance, distribution and use of milk products in refugee settings

This policy aims to assist and guide the use of milk products in refugee settings. Indiscriminate distribution and use of milk products in refugee settings poses a significant risk of increased morbidity and mortality to infants and young children through the negative impact on infant feeding practices. Milk products, including DSM, Dried Whole Milk (DWM)...

Published in 2006, by UNHCR

UNHCR Toolkit

As a part of the Division of Operational Support (DOS), the Technical Support Section (TSS) has compiled this Toolkit to assist field practitioners, partners and Headquarters staff in effectively planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating refugee aid. In order to provide cross-sectional accuracy of information, the tools are reference materials from...

Published in 2005, by UNHCR

UNHCR/WFP Guidelines for Selective Feeding Programmes in Emergency Situations

These guidelines describe the basic principles and design elements concerning food and nutrition related aspects of Selective Feeding Programmes in Emergencies and Relief situations. They are intended to provide guidance to WFP and UNHCR and other relief staff in the design, implementation and monitoring of Selective Feeding Programmes in both emergencies...

Published in 1999, by UNHCR, WFP

UNHCR/WFP Joint Assessment Missions (JAM) Guidelines, Second Edition

JAMs have been conducted in collaboration with UNHCR since 1994 to understand the situation, profiles and needs of refugees, internally displaced people (IDPs) and host populations, in particular with regards to food security and nutrition. Over the years, the methodology has been refined, especially with regard to both food and non-food aspects of an...

Published in 2008, by WFP, UNHCR

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 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Use of Compact Foods in Emergencies

Overview of compact foods available for use in emergencies, outlying advantages and disadvantages of different products including BP5, Plumpynut, High Energy Biscuits and High Density Rations. It includes their micronutrient value

Published in 2002, by FANTA

Users’ Training Manual: Improving Nutrition Programmes - An assessment Tool for Action

TRAINING MANUAL developed to enhance the capacity of the members of assessment teams to conduct nutrition programme assessments, founded on a common understanding of concepts which underpin effective and sustainable community-based nutrition programmes. The manual is divided into six topics, to be taught over 3 to 5 days. The package can be adapted to...

Published in 2004, by FAO, University of Western Cape

Vitamin A Supplementation: A decade of progress

Vitamin A deficiency affects some 127 million preschool children globally, putting them at increased risk of sickness and death. But supplementation is cost-effective and has proven potential to reduce the yearly number of preventable child deaths. This report tracks the progress of supplementation programming following 10 years of global advocacy. It is a...

Published in 2007, by UNICEF

Vivres pour la nutrition: intégrer la nutrition dans les programmes du PAM

La plupart des décès de personnes souffrant de la faim qui auraient pu être évités se produisent en dehors des périodes de crise. Dans les pays qui ne sont pas touchés par des conflits ou des catastrophes naturelles, la malnutrition est chaque année directement responsable de la mort de millions d'enfants et de mères. C'est pourquoi les énormes...

Published in 2004, by PAM - WFP

We the Children - Meeting the promises of the World Summit for Children

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's We the Children is a landmark review of the progress made in meeting the commitments of the 1990 World Summit for Children. An essential reference and guide for anyone interested in development, the report assesses the decade's achievements and its setbacks, highlights best practices and lessons learned, describes the...

Published in 2001, by UNICEF

WFP Advanced Nutrition Training: Measuring and Interpreting Malnutrition and Mortality

The overall goal of this 6-day workshop is to build WFP staff capacity in the skills related to the collection, review, analysis and dissemination of nutrition and mortality information. Day: Introduction and Anthropometry Day 2: Micronutrients and Mortality Day 3 and 4: Surveys and sampling Day 4 and 5: Field exercise Day 6: Using data and critiquing reports

Published in 2002, by WFP, CDC

WFP Basic Training in Food and Nutrition

A basic five-day training course on food and nutrition aimed at getting participants to gain a greater understanding of food and nutrition in relation to WFP’s work, and will provide opportunities for participants to practice related basic skills. It includes 12 sessions and three guides: trainer’s guide, workshop organizer’s guide and training...

Published in 2002, by WFP

What are the successful strategies for reducing malnutrition among young children in East Africa?

Human Development Reports. Research Paper. July 2010

Published in 2010, by Ibrahim Kasirye

WHO HIV Consensus Statement on Infant Feeding

Researchers, programme implementers, infant feeding experts and representatives of the IATT, UN agencies, the WHO Regional Office for Africa and six WHO headquarters departments gathered in Geneva in order to review the substantial body of new evidence and experience regarding HIV and infant feeding that has been accumulating since a previous technical...

Published in 2006, by WHO

WHO, UNICEF and SCN informal consultation on community-based management of severe malnutrition in children

This technical paper is a special issue of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin reports on a WHO/UNICEF/Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN) meeting on community-based management of severe malnutrition in children that took place in Geneva on November 21-23, 2005, and brought together some 50 international experts and representatives from the World Food...

Published in 2006, by SCN, WHO, UNICEF

Why infant formula causes deaths due to diarrhoea in emergencies

Explains the causes of diarrhoea, how breastfeeding prevents diarrhoea and how infant formula makes infants vulnerable to diarrhoea and the risks during emergencies.

Published in 2007, by Karleen Gribble

World Hunger Series 2007: Hunger and Health

The battle against hunger can be won in our lifetime. The technology, knowledge and resources exist to meet the needs of the world’s hungry. What is required now is for leaders to make the right political choices to ensure that images of hungry children are a problem of the past, rather than a shame of the present. This edition of the World Hunger...

Published in 2007, by WFP

World Hunger Series: Hunger and Markets

This third edition of the World Hunger Series examines the complex relationship between markets and hunger. The report could not be more relevant or timely. In recent years, we have witnessed how high food prices have adverse impacts on the nutritional status of vulnerable populations, particularly children under the age of 2. Now we are facing another...

Published in 2009, by WFP