Refugee Nutrition Information System (RNIS), No. 11 - 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



ACC/SCN, c/o 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

Geneva, 25 July 1995

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, CONCERN, UN/DHA, FAO, ICRC, IFRC, MSF-Belgium, MSF-CIS, MSF-France, MSF-Holland, SCF-UK, UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, 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. Angola
2. Benin/Ghana/Togo Region
3. Burkina Faso
4. Burundi/Rwanda Situation
5. Central African Republic
6. Djibouti
7. Western Ethiopia/Eastern Ethiopia/Ogaden
8. Kenya
9. Liberia/Sierra Leone Region
10. Mauritanian Refugees in Senegal
11. Mozambique Region
12. Shaba/Kasai Regions
13. Somalia
14. Sudan
15. Uganda
16. Zaire (Refugees)
17. Zambia

CURRENT SITUATION (Asia - Selected Situations)

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

Listing of Sources for July 1995 RNIS Report

List of Tables and Figures

Annex 1. Results of Surveys Quoted

Annex 2. Seasonality in Sub-Saharan Africa

List of Maps