Refugee Nutrition Information System (RNIS), No. 21 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations













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United Nations

Sub-Committee on Nutrition

26 September 1997

This report is issued on the general responsibility of the Secretariat of the U.N.'s ACC/Sub-Committee on Nutrition; the material it contains should not be regarded as necessarily endorsed by, or reflecting the official positions of the ACC/SCN and its U.N. member agencies. The designations employed and the presentation of material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the ACC/SCN or its U.N. member agencies concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.


This report was compiled by Jane Wallace, ACC/SCN Secretariat,
with the help of Jeremy Shoham, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.


If you have information to contribute to forthcoming reports, or would like to request back issues of the Reports on the Nutrition Situation of Refugees and Displaced Populations (RNIS), please contact:

Jane Wallace
RNIS Coordinator
ACC/Sub-Committee on Nutrition (V222)
20. avenue Appia
1211 Geneva 27
SWITZERLAND

Tel: + (41-22) 791.04.56
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Funding support is gratefully acknowledged from CIDA, DFA (Ireland), NORAD, and ODA (UK).


Table of Contents


Highlights

Sub-Saharan Africa

Asia - Selected Situations

List of Sources

Tables and Figures

Indicators