Issue 37 / English
Editorials
- From the editor (page 1)
Field Articles
- Food Kitchens in Mogadishu (page 2)
- Diluted F100 v infant formula in treatment of severely malnourished infants < 6 months (page 17)
- Delivery of Social Protection Programmes in Kenya (page 25)
Evaluations
Research
- UNICEF framework fosters collaboration in Afghanistan (page 5)
- Forecasting slow onset disasters to improve response (page 6)
- Participatory study of impact of global crises on the poor (page 6)
- Local and centralised therapeutic food production (page 7)
- Addressing poverty and undernutrition in India (page 8)
- Fortified spreads v CSB in supplementary feeding in Malawi (page 9)
- Probiotics and prebiotics for SAM in Malawi (page 9)
- Use of LNS to improve food rations in emergencies (page 10)
- Nutritional monitoring of pre-school children in DRC (page 11)
- Priority indicators in humanitarian emergencies (page 11)
- Low rate of low birthweight in refugee camps in Nepal (page 12)
- Use of commercial RUTF in India (page 12)
- Contextual data collection in nutrition surveys in Ethiopia (page 13)
- Programme implications for WHO Growth Standards rollout (page 13)
Agency Profiles
- World Vision (page 31)
News & Views
- Community Nutrition: A Handbook for Health and Development Workers (page 21)
- Little investment in nutrition by Gates Foundation (page 21)
- Update of WFP/UNHCR Guidelines for Selective Feeding in Emergencies (page 21)
- What is complementary feeding? (page 21)
- en-net highlights : LNS and implementing CMAM (page 22)
- Free online access to Lancet articles on undernutrition (page 22)
- Management of Humanitarian Emergencies Course (page 22)
- Upcoming online tutored course in Food Security (page 22)
- Alternative Sampling Designs for Emergency Settings (page 23)
- Climate change causing deaths worldwide (page 23)
- HTP technical update: we need your views (page 23)
- Global hunger index (page 24)
- Integration of IYCF into CMAM – new training content (page 24)
- Update on Sphere Project Revision (page 24)
- New ENN Technical Director appointed (page 33)
- Correction (page 34)
- Invite to submit material to Field Exchange (page 34)
People in Aid
- People in Aid (page 33)
Cartoons
- Cartoon Corner (page 33)
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While there are at least four distinct thematic areas addressed by articles in Field Exchange 37, there is arguably one cross-cutting issue – namely the tendency towards fragmentation and lack of coordination within the emergency nutrition sector. We will return to this later.
This issue of Field Exchange carries a number of research summaries related to the role of data and indicators in emergencies. There are pieces on the evidence for impact of the global food crisis on the poor, a new method of statistical forecasting for famine, based on data sets produced in Kenya, and programmatic implications of the roll out of the 2006 World Health Organisation (WHO) growth standards. There is also an important review conducted by the Health and Nutrition Tracking Service in WHO on the primary indicators used in emergencies. This highlights the lack of standardisation and measurability of many of the indicators used for monitoring emergency programmes. Another study, conducted by Fiona Watson, analyses the role of contextual (nonanthropometric) data in nutrition surveys conducted in Ethiopia. Again this highlights the lack of standardisation of information collected, as well as the limited use made by decisionmakers of this information.