Refugee Nutrition Information System (RNIS), No. 23 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugees and Displaced Populations













Table of Contents


25 March 1998

United Nations
Sub-Committee on Nutrition

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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.


We would like to thank all those agencies who contributed information to this report, particularly:

ACF, ACH, ACT, CAD, CARE, CRS, UN/OCHA (formerly DHA), FAO, FSAU, ICRC, IRIN, IRIN-WA, MSF-Holland, OLS, OXFAM, SCF-UK, UNHCR, USAID, WFP and WHO.


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Jane Wallace
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ACC/Sub-Committee on Nutrition (V222)
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Funding support is gratefully acknowledged from CIDA, DFA (Ireland), NORAD, DFID (UK), and WFP.


Table of Contents


Highlights

Sub-Saharan Africa

1. Angola
2. Burundi/Rwanda (Great Lakes) Region
3. Djibouti
4. Ethiopia
5. Kenya
6. Liberia/Sierra Leone Region
7. Somalia
8. Sudan

Special Focus: Food Security in Liberia

9. Uganda
10. Zambia

Asia - Selected Situations

11. Afghanistan Region
12. Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal
13. Refugees from Rakhine State, Myanmar in Bangladesh
14. Marsh Arabs in Southern Iraq
15. Sri Lanka

Listing of Sources for March 1998 RNIS Report #23

Tables and Figures

Indicators