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March 2015

Issue 49 / English

Editorials

• Editorial (page 1)

Field Articles

• Community case management approach to SAM treatment in Angola (page 3)
• Participatory risk analysis and integrated interventions to increase resilience of pastoral communities in Northern Kenya (page 6)
• Experience of intersectoral integration in an NGO nutrition programme and a typology for programme design (page 43)
• Improving food security and addressing nutrition of vulnerable farming communities affected by conflict and natural disaster in mid-western Nepal (page 47)
• Efficacy of a community-embedded RUTF programme to treat childhood malnutrition in Kapanga, DRC (page 63)
• RAM-OP: A rapid assessment method for assessing the nutritional status, vulnerabilities, and needs of older people in emergency and development settings (page 67)
• Building a case for causality through the NCA approach in Satkhira, Bangladesh (page 74)
• Undernutrition risk factors and their interplay with nutrition outcomes: nutrition causal analysis pilot in Kenya (page 77)
• A single coverage estimator for use in SQUEAC, SLEAC, and other CMAM coverage assessments (page 81)
• Measuring coverage at the national level in Mali (page 85)

Research

• Experiences with mobile data collection in UNHCR standardised expanded nutrition surveys (page 10)
• What affects the cost of delivering cash transfers in humanitarian settings? (page 13)
• Effect of nutrition survey ‘cleaning criteria’ on estimates of malnutrition prevalence and disease burden: secondary data analysis (page 15)
• Vitamin A policies need rethinking (page 18)
• Capacity support to states in fragile and conflict affected situations: an analytical framework (page 20)
• Bioavailability of iron, zinc and provitamin A carotenoids in biofortified staple crops (page 21)
• Protecting policy space for public health nutrition (page 22)
• Multiple crises overwhelm emergency food relief agencies (page 23)
• Importance of government policies and other influences in transforming global diets (page 24)
• Nutrition and brain development in early life (page 25)
• Contribution of six risk factors to achieving the 25x25 non-communicable disease mortality reduction target (page 26)
• Nutritional influences over the life course on lean body mass of individuals in developing countries (page 27)
• Prevalence, clinical predictors, and outcome of hypocalcaemia in severely malnourished children in urban Bangladesh (page 28)
• International foetal growth standards: one size fits all (page 29)
• Barriers to access for SAM treatment services in Pakistan and Ethiopia: a comparative qualitative analysis (page 30)
• Effects of nutritional supplementation for HIV patients starting antiretroviral treatment in Ethiopia (page 32)
• Implications of inconsistent anaemia policies for children and adolescents in Africa (page 33)
• Risk factors associated with severe acute malnutrition in infants under six months in India: a cross sectional analysis (page 34)
• Scalable integrated early child development programme using a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia (page 37)
• Nutrition in emergencies: Do we know what works? (page 38)
• Literature review on impact of cash transfers on nutritional outcomes (page 40)

Agency Profiles

• SPRING (Strengthening Partnerships, Results and Innovations in Nutrition Globally) (page 72)

News & Views

• Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (IYCF-E) –Toolkit for implementation (page 50)
• Hunger And Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI) (page 51)
• Global Nutrition Report (page 52)
• Global Hunger Index Report (page 53)
• Aid Transparency Index: ‘publish what you fund’ (page 54)
• Lack of progress in reducing anaemia among women (page 54)
• How MSF is mapping the world’s medical emergency zones (page 55)
• New DG ECHO guidance on IYCF-E programming (page 55)
• ACF manual on health system strengthening (page 56)
• Call to Action on improving Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene for Maternal and Newborn Health (page 56)
• En-net update (page 57)
• Contribute to Nutrition Exchange (page 59)
• Management of Humanitarian Emergencies course (page 59)
• ODI working paper on reframing undernutrition: faecally-transmitted infections (page 59)
• Technical briefs on MAM (page 59)
• Report on ENN Technical Meeting on Nutrition (page 60)
• Linking integrated community case management of sick children and nutrition: experiences and meeting report (page 61)
• ICN2 - from promises to action: ACF’s perspective (page 62)

People in Aid

• People in aid (page 88)

Cartoons

• Cartoon Corner (page 88)