January 2012
Issue 42 / English
Editorials
- From the editor (page 1)
Field Articles
- MUAC versus weight-for-height debate in the Philippines (page 3)
- Examining the integration of Food by Prescription into HIV care and treatment in Zambia (page 30)
- Increasing Access to Ready-to-use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) (page 46)
- Improving blanket supplementary feeding programme (BSFP) efficiency in Sudan (page 59)
- Multi-pronged approach to the management of moderate acute malnutrition in Guinea (page 65)
Evaluations
- Evaluation of Concern’s response to the Haiti Earthquake (page 61)
- Review of Integrated Food Security Programme in Malawi (page 63)
Research
- Qualitative review of an alternative treatment of SAM in Myanmar (page 6)
- Dangerous delay in responding to Horn of Africa early warnings of drought (page 9)
- Community case management of severe acute malnutrition in southern Bangladesh (page 11)
- Mortality risk factors in severelymalnourished children hospitalised with diarrhoea (page 12)
- Voices from the field: Optimising performance for humanitarian workers (page 13)
- Effects of a conditional cash transfer programme on child nutrition in Brazil (page 15)
- Exclusive breastfeeding promotion by peer counsellors in sub-Saharan Africa (page 15)
- MUAC and weight-for-height in identifying high risk children (page 16)
- Civil-military coordination during humanitarian health action (page 17)
- Operational research in low-income countries: what, why, and how? (page 18)
- Effects of agricultural and nutrition education projects on child health in Malawi (page 20)
- Study of causes of persistent acute malnutrition in north Darfur (page 21)
- Effects of performance payments to health workers in Rwanda (page 22)
- ‘Zap’ it to me: short-term impacts of a mobile cash transfer programme (page 23)
- Revisiting the concept of growth monitoring and its possible role in communitybased programmes (page 24)
- Political economy of adaptation through crop diversification in Malawi (page 26)
- Practical challenges of evaluating BSFP in northern Kenya (page 27)
Agency Profiles
News & Views
- Coverage assessment forum launched on en-net (page 45)
- Technical Reference for SQUEAC and SLEAC Methods, 2012 (page 45)
- UNHCR Technical Workshop on the Operational Guidance on the use of Special Nutritional Products (page 48)
- infoasaid: communication in emergencies (page 49)
- Experiences of the Nutrition in Emergencies Regional Training Initiative (page 50)
- Minimum Reporting Package (MRP) on Supplementary Feeding Programmes (page 53)
- E-learning course on Social Safety Ne (page 54)
- Improving patient assessment: The ‘MOYO’ Weight-for-Height Chart (page 54)
- Attractive scholarship for EDAMUS Masters programme (page 55)
- En-net update (page 55)
- Government of Sudan CMAM Training Course on Inpatient Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition: Training Materials (2011) (page 55)
- UNHCR standardised nutrition survey guidelines and training (page 56)
- Putting nutrition products in their place: ACF position paper (page 57)
- Conference on government experiences of CMAM scale up, Ethiopia, 2011 (page 58)
People in Aid
- People in aid (page 69)
Cartoons
- Pandamonium (page 69)
Other
- Focus on coverage assessment (page 33)
- Remote monitoring of CMAM programmes coverage: SQUEAC lessons in Mali and Mauritania (page 34)
- Causal analysis and the SQUEAC toolbox (page 37)
- Using SLEAC as a wide-area survey method (page 39)
- Register now for coverage assessment workshop in Oxford (page 45)
- Dedication to Kari Noel Egge (page 68)
- Dedication to Mr Abdikarim Hashi Kadiye (page 68)
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This issue of Field Exchange gives extended coverage to a briefing paper just released by Oxfam and SC UK on the 2011 response to the Horn of Africa crisis. This paper argues that the response was late and led to the unnecessary deaths of between 50,000 to 100,000 people, at least half of whom were children under 5 years. According to the authors, there was sufficient early warning to trigger a response as early as November 2010 but the main response only unravelled in July 2011, following declaration of famine and concerted media coverage.