Refugee Nutrition Information System (RNIS), No. 20 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations













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ACC/SCN, Geneva, 6 June 1997

ACC/SCN

REFUGEE NUTRITION INFORMATION SYSTEM

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

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, DFA (Ireland), ODA (UK), and NORAD. UNHCR kindly provided many of the maps used.

We would like to thank all those agencies who contributed information to this report, particularly: ACF, CARE, CONCERN, UN/DHA, FAO, ICRC, IFRC, IOM, MSF-Belgium, MSF-CIS, MSF-France, MSF-Holland, SCF-UK, Refugees International, Refugee Policy Group, UNHCR, USAID, and WFP.


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HIGHLIGHTS

INTRODUCTION

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

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

ASIA - Selected Situations

16. Afghanistan Region
17. Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal
18. Refugees from Rakhine State, Myanmar in Bangladesh
19. Southern Iraq
20. Sri Lanka

Listing of Sources for June 1997 RNIS Report #20

Annex I: Results of Surveys Quoted in June 1997 RNIS Report (#20) - usually children 6-59 months

Annex II: Seasonality