Refugee Nutrition Information System (RNIS), No. 30 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugees and Displaced Populations

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United Nations Sub-Committee on Nutrition

31 March 2000

This report is issued on the general responsibility of the Secretariat of the U.N. 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 Arabella Duffield, ACC/SCN Secretariat, with the help of Helen Young (Feinstein International Famine Centre, Tuft’s University) and Susanne Jaspars (Nutrition Works)

We would like to thank all those agencies who contributed information to this report, particularly: AAH-UK, ACF-F, ACF-USA, ACH-S, AI, CONCERN, FAO, FEWS, FSAU, ICRC, IFRC, Medair, Merlin, MSF-B, MSF-F, MSF-H, OCHA, OLS, OXFAM, SCF-UK, TearFund, UNHCHR, UNHCR, UNICEF, USAID, WFP, WHO

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Funding support is gratefully acknowledged from CIDA, DFA (Ireland), NORAD, DFID (UK), UNHCR, UNICEF and WFP. This report was made possible through the support provided to the Food and Nutrition Assistance (FANta) Project by the Office of Health and Nutrition Bureau for Global Programs. Field Support and Research at the U.S. Agency for International Development, under the terms of Cooperative Agreement No. HNE-A-00-98-00046-00 awarded to the Academy for Educational Development (AED). The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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Highlights

Sub-Saharan Africa

1. Angola
2. Great Lakes

Burundi
Rwanda
Republic of Congo (RoC)
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
United Republic of Tanzania

3. Eritrea
4. Ethiopia
5. Kenya
6. Liberia/Sierra Leone Region

Liberia
Sierra Leone
Guinea-Conakry
Cote d’Ivoire

7. Somalia
8. Sudan
9. Uganda
10. Zambia

Asia - Selected situations

11. Afghanistan Region
12. Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal
13. Indonesia/East Timor Region

East Timor
Indonesia

14. Balkans Region

Listing of sources

Abbreviations used in the text

Tables and figures

Notes on Annex 1 and other nutritional assessments in the text

ACC/SCN publications available

Indicators