Refugee Nutrition Information System (RNIS), No. 28 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugees and Displaced Populations













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United Nations
Sub-Committee on Nutrition

28 September 1999

This report is issued on the general responsibility of the Secretariat of the U.N. 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.

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

AAH-UK, AAH-USA, AI. ACF-F. ACH-S, CAD, CARE, EPICENTRE, FAO, FSAU, IFRC, ICRC, Medair, Merlin, MSF-B, MSF-CH. MSF-F, MSF-H, OCHA, OLS, OXFAM, SCF-UK, UNHCHR, UNHCR, UNICEF, USAID, WFP, WHO


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:

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Funding support is gratefully acknowledged from CIDA, DFA (Ireland), NORAD, DFID (UK), UNHCR, UNICEF and WFP.
This report was made possible through the support provided to the Food and Nutrition Assistance (FANta) Project by the Office of Health and Nutrition Bureau for Global Programs, Field Support and Research at the U.S. Agency for International Development, under the terms of Cooperative Agreement No. HNE-A-00-98-00046-00 awarded to the Academy for Educational Development (AED). The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Agency for International Development.


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Highlights

1. Angola

2. Great Lakes Region

Burundi
Rwanda

Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville)

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

United Republic of Tanzania

3. Ethiopia

4. Eritrea

5. Kenya

6. Liberia/Sierra Leone Region

Liberia

Sierra Leone

Guinea Conakry

Cote d'Ivoire

7. Somalia

8. Sudan

9. Uganda

10. Zambia

11. Afghanistan Region

12. Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal

13. Refugees from Rakhine State, Myanmar in Bangladesh

14. Indonesia - Selected Situations

15. Kosovo Region

Listing of Sources for September 1999 RNIS Report 28

Abbreviations used in the text

Tables and figures

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