Issue 30 / English
Editorials
- Issue 30 Editorial (page 1)
Field Articles
- Constraints to achieving Sphere minimum standards for SFPs in West Darfur: a comparative analysis (page 1)
- Comparing cash and food transfers: findings from a pilot project in Sri Lanka (page 17)
- Can height-adjusted cut-offs improve MUAC’s utility as an assessment tool? (page 22)
Evaluations
Research
- Community based approaches to managing severe malnutrition: case study from Ethiopia (page 6)
- Niacin deficiency and pellagra in Angola (page 7)
- Sexual exploitation and food distribution in Burundi (page 7)
- Population movement as a livelihood strategy in northern Uganda (page 8)
- Understanding HIV/AIDS and livelihoods: new cluster analysis (page 8)
- Nutritional status of children and pregnant and lactating women in relief camps in post-tsunami Sri Lanka (page 9)
- Breastfeeding Support Groups in Tajikistan (page 10)
- Measuring household food insecurity in emergencies: WFP’s approach (page 10)
Agency Profiles
- Save the Children (page 26)
News & Views
- Making Sense of the Code: new training materials (page 12)
- Evaluation of Field Exchange (page 13)
- Investigation of anthropometric training by NGOs (page 13)
- Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) (page 13)
- Report on IFE Meeting now available (page 13)
- SDC online platform on cash transfers (page 13)
- Development of Rapid and Comprehensive Assessment Tools for Emergencies (page 14)
- ODI website on cash in emergencies (page 14)
- Translated Operational Guidance on IFE now available (page 14)
- New WHO Growth Standards: more harm than good? (page 15)
- Nutrition in Emergencies short course (page 15)
- Update on the IPC Online Global Forum (page 15)
- IFE training planned in London (page 16)
- Public Health in Complex Emergencies course - 2007 dates (page 16)
- The Need to Improve Administration in Ethical Organisations (page 16)
- Top 10 underreported crises in 2006 (page 16)
Cartoons
- Pandamonium (issue 30) (page 29)
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Many pieces in this issue of Field Exchange strengthen our understanding of best practice in nutritional emergencies. We highlight four in this editorial.
Victoria Sibson from Concern Worldwide describes efforts to establish why SFPs, implemented as part of CTC programming in Darfur, have often failed to meet SPHERE standards. Concern Worldwide undertook a study in two SFP locations with very different performance results. In El Geneina SFP, cure rates were only 26.9% and default rates were 47.5% while in Mornei SFP, performance was much better, almost reaching SPHERE targets. A number of contextual factors explaining the different programme outcomes came to light.
For example, in El Geneina there is a larger internally displaced population (either in camps or living with residents) that has greater trading opportunities, so that the opportunity cost of participating in the programme is far greater than in Mornei. Other factors are the greater coverage of the general food distribution (GFD) in Mornei, better access to protected water sources and the existence of more complementary programming, e.g. health, livelihoods, etc.