Refugee Nutrition Information System (RNIS), No. 8 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations













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ACC/SCN

UNITED NATIONS ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE ON
COORDINATION SUB-COMMITTEE ON NUTRITION


REFUGEE NUTRITION INFORMATION SYSTEM (RNIS)

No. 8

ACC/SCN, Geneva, 19 December 1994

ACC/SCN, do World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, CH - 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland Telephone: [41-22] 791 04 56, Fax: [41-22] 798 88 91, EMail: ACCSCN@WHO.CH

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 the ACC/SCN Secretariat, with the help of Jeremy Shoham, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Funding support is gratefully acknowledged from CIDA, NORAD, USAID*, UNHCR, and WFP, as are inputs in kind from UNICEF and Save the Children Fund, UK. UNHCR kindly provided most of the maps used.

We would like to thank all those agencies who contributed information to this report, particularly AICF, UN/DHA, FAO, ICRC, MSF-Belgium, MSF-CIS, MSF-HoIland, SCF-UK, UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, WHO, and WV.

* This report was prepared with support from the United States Agency for International Development, Bureau for Global Programs, Field Support and Research, Office of Health and Nutrition and the Bureau for Humanitarian Response under The Food Security and Nutrition Monitoring (IMPACT) Project, Contract No. DAN-5110-C-00-0013-00.


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HIGHLIGHTS

INTRODUCTION

CURRENT SITUATION (Sub-Saharan Africa)

1. Liberia Region (see Map 1 and Figure 3A)
2. Western Ethiopia/Eastern Ethiopia/Ogaden (see Map 2)
3. East, Central and West Sudan (see Map 3)
4. Kenya (see Map 4 and Figure 3B)
5. Somalia (see Map 5)
6. Mozambique Region (see Map 6 and Figure 3C)
7. Burkina Faso (see Map 7)
8. Angola (see Map 8 and Figure 3D)
9. Southern Sudan (see Map 9 and Figure 3E)
10. Uganda (see Map 10)
11. Shaba/Kasai Regions, Zaire (see Map 11)
12. Ghana, Togo, Benin Region (see Map 12)
13. Central African Republic (see Map 13)
14. Zaire (Refugees) (see Map 11)
15. Burundi/Rwanda Situation (See Map 15 and Figure 3F)
17. Djibouti (see Map 17)
18. Zambia (see Map 18)

CURRENT SITUATION (Asia - Selected Situations)

19. Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal
20. Refugees from Rakhine State, Myanmar in Bangladesh
21. Southern Iraq
22. Afghanistan Region

LISTING OF SOURCES FOR DECEMBER 1994 RNIS REPORT

ANNEXES

Annex 1. Results of Surveys Quoted in December 1994 Report
Annex 2. Seasonality in Sud-Saharan Africa