February 2017
Issue 54 / English
Editorials
- Editorial (page 1)
Field Articles
- Alert and rapid response to nutritional crisis in DRC (page 3)
- Developing a mobile health app to manage acute malnutrition: a five-country experience (page 7)
- CMAM scale-up: experience from Ethiopia’s El Niño response 2016 (page 11)
- Tackling non-communicable disease among Syrian refugees and vulnerable host communities in Jordan (page 69)
- Treatment of malnutrition in Lebanon: Institutionalisation with the Ministry of Public Health – steps and lessons learned (page 73)
- A journey to multi-sector nutrition programming in Nepal: evolution, processes and way forward (page 77)
- Recommendations for multi-sector nutrition planning: Cross-context lessons from Nepal and Uganda (page 90)
- Using care groups in emergencies in South Sudan (page 95)
- Assessing the differences in the scale of nutrition response efforts to El Niño in Ethiopia (page 98)
- Mercy Corps cash programming in the Greece migrant crisis response (page 105)
- Mastercard experiences during the humanitarian response in southern Europe (page 108)
Research
- Research Snapshots (page 16)
- Accessing quality research to enable evidence-informed national policy: experiences from Zimbabwe (page 19)
- Beyond the drinking glass: expanding our understanding of water-nutrition linkages (page 21)
- Deterioration of children with MAM who have no access to supplementary feeding programmes (page 22)
- Growth faltering in rural Gambian children after four decades of interventions: a retrospective cohort study (page 24)
- Women’s empowerment through food security interventions: a secondary data analysis (page 25)
- Improving estimates of numbers of children with severe acute malnutrition using cohort and survey data (page 27)
- Invited commentary: improving estimates of severe acute malnutrition requires more data (page 28)
- UNICEF call for data sharing for incidence analysis (page 29)
- Improving community management of uncomplicated acute malnutrition in infants under six months (C-MAMI): Developing a checklist version of the C-MAMI tool (page 30)
- Cost-benefit analysis of a kitchen-garden intervention in Pakistan (page 32)
- Using trials of improved practices to shift nutrition and hygiene behaviours in Sierra Leone (page 33)
- Cost analysis of the treatment of severe acute malnutrition in West Africa (page 35)
- Local versus offshore costs of RUTF and LNS (page 36)
- Efficacy of three feeding regimens for home-based management of children with uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition (page 38)
- Predicting coexistence of wasting and stunting in Guinea-Bissau: A secondary data analysis (page 40)
- Mortality and causes of mortality in children 6-59 months of age admitted to inpatient therapeutic feeding centres in Niger (page 42)
- Anthropometric cut-off points for older children and adolescents in Syria (page 44)
- Optimising the multi-sectoral nutrition policy cycle: A systems perspective (page 50)
- Prioritising and funding the Uganda Nutrition Action Plan (page 51)
- Implementing multi-sector nutrition programmes in Ethiopia and Nepal: Stakeholder perspectives (page 53)
- Assessing progress in implementing Uganda’s Nutrition Action Plan: District-level insights (page 55)
Special section
- Special Section: Research for Nutrition Conference - Editorial (page 56)
- Special section: Research for nutrition conference - whole section download (page 56)
- Methodological challenges for operational research in the humanitarian context (page 57)
- How to ensure quality research uptake (page 59)
- A cluster RCT to measure the effectiveness of cash-based interventions on nutrition status, Sindh Province, Pakistan (page 61)
- Risk factors for severe acute malnutrition in infants <6 months old in semi-urban Bangladesh: A prospective cohort study to inform future assessment/treatment tools (page 62)
- Water, livestock, and malnutrition findings from an impact assessment of Community Resilience to Acute Malnutrition programme in Chad (page 64)
- Inflammation and moderate acute malnutrition in children: A cross-sectional study in Burkina Faso (page 66)
- Upcoming research shared at ACF research conference (page 67)
Agency Profiles
- ADRA (Adventist Development Relief Agency) (page 104)
News & Views
- New resources from SPRING on evidence-based programming for anaemia (page 80)
- Compendium of Actions for Nutrition (CAN) (page 81)
- Severe acute malnutrition bottleneck analysis tool (page 81)
- Launch of new SUN Movement strategy and roadmap (page 82)
- The Lancet/AUB Joint Commission on Syria: Health in Conflictmailt (page 82)
- Global Humanitarian Response 2017 (page 83)
- Operationalising multi-sectoral coordination and collaboration for improved nutrition (page 84)
- en-net update (page 85)
- Welcome to the ENN’s new Media Hub (page 86)
- Ready-to-use therapeutic food and the WHO list of essential medicines (page 87)
- ACF application to add RUTF to EML sparks lively discussion on en-net (page 89)
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- Rapid response in DRC
- Multi-sectoral nutrition programming in Nepal and Uganda
- Nutrition response in Ethiopia: 2011 v 2016
- Mobile health app – five country experiences
- Cash programming in Greece
- Non-communicable disease management in Jordan
- Integrated SAM treatment in Lebanon
- Care groups in South Sudan
- Special section: Research for Nutrition conference