Refugee Nutrition Information System (RNIS), No. 32 and 33 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations













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United Nations
Sub-Committee on Nutrition



April 2001

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 Brian Jones of the ACC/SCN Secretariat, with the help of Helen Young (Feintstein International Famine Centre, Tuft's University) and Susanne Jaspars (Nutrition Works).


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

AAH-UK. ACF-F. ACF-USA. ACH-S. AI. CONCERN. FAO. FEWS. FSAU. ICRC. IFRC. Medair. Merlin. MSF-B. MSF-F. MSF-H. MSF-S. OCHA. OLS, OXFAM. SCF-UK. TearFund. 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:

Brian Jones, 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.int

Web: http://acc.unsystem.org/scn/


There has been a gap of some nine months since the last issue of the RNIS was published. This is because the RNIS Coordinator position was vacant for most of the latter half of 2000. RNIS 32 and 33 is a double issue covering the entire time period concerned.

The SCN Secretariat and the RNIS Coordinator extend most sincere thanks to all those individuals and agencies who have provided information and time for this issue, and hope to continue to develop the excellent collaboration which has been forged over the years.


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 opnions 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

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

The Greater Horn Region
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Kenya
Somalia
Sudan

WEST AFRICA

Côte d'Ivoire
Guinea
Liberia
Sierra Leone

GREAT LAKES REGION

Burundi
Rwanda
Republic of Congo (RoC)
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
United Republic of Tanzania
Uganda

SOUTHERN AFRICA

Angola
Zambia

ASIA-SELECTED SITUATIONS

Afghanistan Region
Tajikistan
Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal
Indonesia/East Timor Region
Indonesia

Listing of Sources for May 2001 RNIS Reports 31 and 32

Tables and figures

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