Refugee Nutrition Information System (RNIS), No. 34 - Report of the Nutrition Situation of Refugees and Displaced Populations













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July 2001

United Nations
Sub-Committee on Nutrition



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 and Annalies Borel (Feintstein International Famine Centre, Tuft’s University), Susanne Jaspars (Nutrition Works) and Lida Lhotska (IBFAN)


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/


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. The RNIS would particularly like to thank and acknowledge the mapping department of UNHCR for their time and for the supplying of much needed maps for this issue.


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

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

GREATER HORN OF AFRICA

Eritrea
Ethiopia
Kenya
Somalia
Sudan

WEST AFRICA

Cote d’Ivoire
Guinea
Liberia
Sierra Leone

GREAT LAKES REGION

Burundi
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
United Republic of Tanzania
Uganda

SOUTHERN AFRICA

Angola
Zambia

ASIA - SELECTED SITUATIONS

Afghanistan Region

LISTINGS OF SOURCES FOR JULY 2001 RNIS REPORT 34

TABLES AND FIGURES

NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENTS

REPORTS ON THE WORLD NUTRITION SITUATION

ACCSCN NUTRITION POLICY PAPERS

INDICATORS

REFERENCES