Refugee Nutrition Information System (RNIS), No. 27 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations

United Nations
Sub-Committee on Nutrition

7 July 1999

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 Arabella Duffield, ACC/SCN Secretariat,
with the help of Helen Young and Susanne Jaspars.

We would like to thank all those agencies who contributed information to this report, particularly:
AAH, ACF-France, ACF-UK, ACF-USA, ARC, CAD, CONCERN, EPICENTRE, FAO, FSAU, IFRC, ICRC, LWF, Medair, Merlin, MSF-Belgium, MSF-France, MSF-Holland, OLS, OXFAM, RI, SCF-UK, SCF-US, UNHCR, UNICEF, USAID, WFP, WHO, World Vision

If you have information to contribute to forthcoming reports, or would like to request back issues of the Reports on the Nutrition Situation of Refugees and Displaced Populations (RNIS), please contact:
Arabella Duffield (RNIS Coordinator)
ACC/Sub-Committee on Nutrition
20, avenue Appia
1211 Geneva 27
SWITZERLAND
Tel: +(41-22) 791.04.56
Fax: +(41-22) 798.88.91
Email: accscn@who.ch
Web: http://www.unsystem.org/accscn/

Funding support is gratefully acknowledged from CIDA, DFA (Ireland), NORAD, DFID (UK), UNHCR, UNICEF and WFP.