September 2013
Issue 46 / English
Editorials
- From the editor (page 2)
Field Articles
- Impact of urban livelihood intervention post Haiti earthquake (page 4)
- Addressing urban food security through electronic cash transfer in Kenya (page 7)
- Cash voucher programme and rabbit raising intervention in Gaza (page 10)
- The Gaza context (page 10)
- Aquaponics in Gaza (page 15)
- Debunking urban myths: access & coverage of SAM-treatment programmes in urban contexts (page 38)
- Use of cash vouchers in tropical storm emergency response in the Philippines (page 40)
- Spotting the invisible crisis: early warning indicators in urban slums of Nairobi, Kenya (page 55)
- Nutrition security emergency programming in diverse urban contexts (page 59)
- Early results from urban SAM treatment programme in Chad (page 68)
- The roll out of IMAM in Kenya’s urban slums (page 69)
Evaluations
- Impact evaluation of cash, food vouchers, and food transfers among Colombian refugees and poor Ecuadorians in urban Ecuador (page 62)
- Evaluation of post 2007 election violence recovery programme in Kenya (page 65)
- Donor lessons on linking emergency and development funding in urban programming (page 67)
Research
- Causal modelling to explore malnutrition in children in Bangladeshi urban slums (page 17)
- Considerations regarding coverage standards for selective feeding programmes (page 19)
- Understanding access to nutritious food by poor urban pregnant women and lactating mothers and their children in Kisumu, Kenya (page 21)
- Severe malnutrition in children presenting to health facilities in an urban slum in Bangladesh (page 24)
- Gatekeepers in Mogadishu (page 25)
- Review of urban gardens programme for HIV-affected women and children (page 27)
- Review of food security and nutrition amongst urban poor (page 28)
- Review of urban food security targeting methodology and emergency triggers (page 30)
- British Red Cross urban learning scoping study (page 33)
- Global survey of the implementation of UNHCR’s Policy on Refugee Protection and Solutions in Urban Areas (page 35)
- Malnutrition research in urban Africa: issues and opportunities (page 37)
Postscripts
- Postscript: Dealing with urban emergency: lessons from Oxfam’s EFSL activities in three cities (page 13)
Agency Profiles
- Norwegian Refugee Council (page 72)
News & Views
- Coverage Monitoring Network Profile (page 43)
- Nutrition Exchange flyer – pass it on (page 44)
- Profiling methodology for displaced people in urban areas (page 44)
- Tools to support cash transfer programmes (page 44)
- Food for Cities discussion forum (page 45)
- IASC strategy on meeting humanitarian challenges in urban areas (page 45)
- The Food Security and Livelihoods in Urban Settings Working Group (page 45)
- World Disasters Report: Urban risk (page 45)
- Children in an urban world (page 46)
- ACF guide to identification of vulnerable people in urban environments (page 47)
- ALNAP review of lesson learned from responding to urban disasters (page 47)
- ALNAP urban resources (page 47)
- Ensuring Access to Health Care: Operational Guidance on Refugee Protection and Solutions in Urban Areas (page 47)
- Syria: an ‘urban’ humanitarian crisis (page 48)
- Urban refugees debate forum (page 48)
- Time to think urban.....Kenya (page 49)
- UNHCR operational guidance for promoting livelihoods and self-reliance for urban refugees (page 49)
- Nutrition and the urban consumer (page 50)
- Why do we still have refugee camps? (page 52)
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This Field Exchange special issue on Urban Food Security and Nutrition aims to provide some insights into the learning and experience of a broad range of agencies, and highlight some of the remaining gaps in knowledge and areas for research and development.