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December 2006

Issue 29 / English

Editorials

• Issue 29 Editorial (page 1)

Field Articles

• Infant Feeding in Emergencies: Experiences from Indonesia and Lebanon (page 2)
• The Code and the Operational Guidance (page 2)
• The Triple Threat: Southern Africa’s emergency behind the emergency (page 14)
• Exit strategies in OVC programming in Namibia (page 15)
• Junior Farmer Field Life Schools in Namibia (page 18)
• Junior Farmer Field Life Schools in Namibia and Swaziland (page 18)
• A boy’s story from Swaziland (page 20)
• Starting up JFFLS - Observations from Caprivi region, Namibia (page 21)
• Multi-storey gardens to support food security (page 38)

Evaluations

• Improving food security in vulnerable households in Swaziland (page 30)
• The dripkit watering system (page 30)
• Evaluation of WFP relief operations in Angola (page 31)

Research

• Ethical research in conflict situations (page 5)
• Improving impact evaluations (page 5)
• Addressing staff turnover in humanitarian organisations (page 6)
• Is food aid effective? (page 7)
• Responding to early warnings (page 7)
• Child survival during the 2002-2003 drought in Ethiopia (page 8)
• Chronic vulnerability in Niger (page 8)
• Infant feeding in tsunami affected villages in India (page 9)
• Minimising the risks of artificial feeding in emergencies (page 9)
• Lessons on Cash for Work in Somalia (page 10)
• Weighing scales for young infants: a survey of relief workers (page 11)
• Supplementary feeding using RUTF in Malawi (page 12)
• Assessing nutritional status in HIV positive adults (page 13)
• Diarrhoea risk associated with not breastfeeding in Botswana (page 22)
• The effects of HIV on Botswana’s development progress (page 23)
• Infant feeding strategies and PMTCT - Mashi trial from Botswana (page 25)
• Counselling on infant feeding choice: Some practical realities from South Africa (page 26)

Postscripts

• Postscript to 'Infant feeding in tsunami affected villages in India' (page 9)

Agency Profiles

• The Centre for Counselling, Nutrition and Health Care (COUNSENUTH) (page 28)

News & Views

• Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC): A Field Manual (page 32)
• Food Security, Nutrition and HIV/AIDS in Relief and Development (page 32)
• Commentary: Regional Training on Integrated Management of Severe Malnutrition (page 33)
• New UNHCR Policy on handling Milk Products (page 33)
• Nutrition Manual for Humanitarian Action (page 33)
• Strategy Meeting on Infant Feeding in Emergencies (page 34)
• Food Security Distance Learning Course Launched (page 36)
• Support the Operational Guidance on IFE (page 36)
• Updated CD on IFE (page 36)

Letters

• Letter on community mobilisation in outpatient management of severe malnutrition, by Saul Guerrero and Steve Collins (page 36)

People in Aid

• People in Aid (issue 29) (page 39)

Cartoons

• Pandamonium (issue 29) (page 42)