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April 2014

Issue 47 / English

Editorials

• From the Editor (page 2)

Field Articles

• Meeting demand peaks for CMAM in government health services in Kenya (page 3)
• Impact of milling vouchers on household food security in South Sudan (page 7)
• Nutrition Impact and Positive Practice (NIPP) Circles (page 43)
• Sectoral integration ‘on the cheap’ with cash based programming (page 47)
• IYCF assessment with small-sample surveys - A proposal for a simplified and structured approach (page 60)
• Barrier analysis to inform breastfeeding support in Mali (page 65)
• Health system strengthening through material support to health posts in Ethiopia (page 70)
• Impact of goat feeding and animal healthcare on child milk access in Ethiopia (page 72)

Evaluations

• Impact evaluation of BSFP during a nutrition emergency in Kenya (page 68)

Research

• Making agricultural policies deliver better nutrition (page 11)
• Implications of 65 cm height cut-off as age proxy in Bangladesh (page 13)
• Perceptions of SAM treatment in infants under 6 months in Malawi (page 14)
• Anthropometric predictors of mortality in undernourished adults in southern Sudan (page 15)
• Comparison of milk free v milk containing RUTF in SAM treatment in Zambia (page 17)
• Maternal Nutrition in Emergencies: technical review and round table discussion (page 19)
• Achieving resilience in different livelihood contexts (page 21)
• Innovation and success in prevention of konzo (page 23)
• Acceptability of peanut-based RUTF to malnourished pregnant and lactating women in Bangladesh (page 25)
• Development of a competency framework for the nutrition in emergencies sector (page 26)
• The 2011 famine in Somalia: lessons learnt from a failed response (page 27)
• Update of UNICEF/WHO/World Bank database on child malnutrition (page 32)
• Anthropometric indicators to identify a pregnant woman as acutely malnourished and predict adverse birth outcomes (page 33)
• Measuring infants aged below 6 months: experience from the field (page 34)
• Derivation of nutrient requirements for disaster-affected populations - Sphere Project 2011 (page 36)
• MSF initiative of proactive data sharing (page 37)
• Planned ENN review of wasting and stunting linkages (page 38)
• Treatment of SAM and MAM in low- and middle-income settings: a systematic review (page 39)
• Nutritional rehabilitation of infants < 6 months with severe acute malnutrition (page 40)
• MUAC alone admission to SAM treatment in Bangladesh (page 41)
• Infant feeding support at scale in the Haiti 2010 response (page 42)

Postscripts

• Post script: Building resilience: nutrition and beyond (page 7)
• UNICEF/WHO Invited Commentary on ‘Infant and young child feeding assessment with small sample surveys: a proposal for a simplified and structured approach’ (page 63)
• Response to reviewers (page 64)

Agency Profiles

• Agency Profile (page 75)

News & Views

• Aid for Nutrition: maximising the impact of nutrition-sensitive interventions (page 49)
• Aid for Nutrition: maximising the impact of nutrition-sensitive interventions (page 49)
• En-net update and MAMI thematic area launch (page 50)
• Spreading around the globe: ActivityInfo (page 51)
• UNICEF global SAM management update (2012) (page 52)
• WHO guideline updates on the management of SAM in infants and children (page 53)
• People affected by conflict: humanitarian needs and numbers (page 54)
• Report on accessing SAM treatment globally (page 54)
• The state of global SAM management coverage 2012 (page 55)
• Cassava Cyanide Diseases & Neurolathyrism Newsletter (page 57)
• Distance learning courses on reducing maternal anaemia, child anaemia and stunting (page 57)
• What we know now: a decade of community-based SAM treatment (page 57)
• Story telling needs words and pictures (page 58)
• Technical Meeting on Nutrition (page 58)
• Upcoming IFPRI conference on building resilience for food and nutrition security (page 58)
• CALP guidance on e-transfers in emergencies (page 59)
• WHO Guideline: Nutritional care and support for patients with TB (page 59)

People in Aid

• People in aid (page 77)

Cartoons

• Pandamonium (issue 47) (page 77)

Other

• Dedication to Basra Hassan Farah (page 1)