New Sections on SCN/NICS Website
The United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition/Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations (SCN/NICS) has two new sections on its website at www.unsystem.org/scn/Publications/html/rnis.html.
The section "Articles by country" provides all the articles over the ten years RNIS/NICS has been reporting, classified by country.
The results of the random sampled nutrition surveys which have been reported in the RNIS/NICS bulletins are available in the section "Database". They are classified by country and have direct links with the contextual information and the methodology reported in the RNIS/NICS reports.
These two sections are updated quarterly.
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New Sections on SCN/NICS Website. Field Exchange 23, November 2004. p14. www.ennonline.net/fex/23/newsections
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