Refugee Nutrition Information System (RNIS), No. 19 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations













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Geneva, 8 March 1997

ACC/SCN

REFUGEE NUTRITION INFORMATION SYSTEM

UNITED NATIONS ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE ON COORDINATION
SUB-COMMITTEE ON NUTRITION


No. 19

ACC/SCN, Geneva, 8 March 1997

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, E-mail: 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 Jane Wallace, ACC/SCN Secretariat, with the help of Jeremy Shoham, London
School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Funding support is gratefully acknowledged from CIDA and NORAID. UNHCR kindly provided many of the maps used.

We would like to thank all those agencies who contributed information to this report, particularly:
ACF, CONCERN, UN/DHA, EPICENTRE, FAO, ICRC, IFRC, MSF-Belgium, MSF-CIS, MSF-France, MSF-Holland, MSF-S, SCF-UK, UNHCHR, UNHCR, UNICEF, USAID, WFP and WV.


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HIGHLIGHTS

INTRODUCTION

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

1. Angola (see Map 1)
2. Benin/Ghana/Togo Region
3. Burkina Faso and Mauritania - Malian Refugees
4. Burundi/Rwanda (Great Lakes) Situation (See Map 4 and 14)
5. Central African Republic
6. Djibouti
7. Ethiopia (see Map 7)
8. Kenya (see Map 8)
9. Liberia/Sierra Leone Region (see Map 9 a, b)
10. Mozambique Region (see Map 10)
11. Somalia (see Map 11)
12. Sudan (see Map 12)
13. Uganda (see Map 13)
14. Zaire (see Map 14)
15. Zambia

ASIA - Selected Situations

16. Afghanistan Region (see Map 16)
17. Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal (see Map 17)
18. Refugees from Rakhine State, Myanmar in Bangladesh (see Map 18)
19. Southern Iraq

ANNEX I: Results of Surveys Quoted In March 1997 RNIS Report (#19) - usually children 6-59 months

ANNEX II: Seasonality in Sub-Saharan Africa

MAPS