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March 2018

Issue 57 / English

Editorials

• Editorial (page 1)

Field Articles

• Extending support through CMAM to older people in Ethiopia (page 3)
• Resilient farming in Satkhira, Bangladesh (page 7)
• Operational factors in the integration of nutrition into agriculture and livelihoods programmes in Zimbabwe (page 31)
• Enhancing infant and young child feeding in emergency preparedness and response in East Africa: capacity mapping in Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan (page 35)
• Scale-up of IMAM services in Afghanistan (page 48)
• Monitoring and evaluation of programmes in unstable populations: Experiences with the UNHCR Global SENS Database (page 53)
• How do low-cost, home-grown school-feeding programmes work? Lessons learned from Malawi (page 85)
• Health systems strengthening in fragile contexts: A partnership model in South West State, Somalia (page 89)

Evaluations

• Impact evaluation of the Lebanon multipurpose cash assistance programme (page 82)
• Impact evaluation of a DFID programme to accelerate improved nutrition for the extreme poor in Bangladesh (page 83)

Research

• WASH-nutrition barriers and potential solutions in Cambodia (page 11)
• Effectiveness of food supplements in increasing fat-free tissue accretion in children with moderate acute malnutrition in Burkina Faso (page 12)
• Effects of nutrition interventions during pregnancy on low birth weight (page 14)
• Thiamine content of F-75 for complicated severe acute malnutrition: time for a change? (page 15)
• Consumption of iron-rich foods among adolescent girls in Nepal: Identifying behavioural determinants (page 17)
• Nutrition-sensitive agriculture: What have we learned and where do we go from here? (page 19)
• Exploring multi-sector programming at district level in Senegal, Nepal and Kenya (page 21)
• Children concurrently wasted and stunted: A meta- analysis of prevalence data of children 6-59 months from 84 countries (page 23)
• Humanitarian-development nexus: nutrition policy and programming in Kenya (page 25)
• Community management of uncomplicated malnourished infants under six months old: barriers to national policy change (page 27)
• Shock-responsive social protection systems research (page 29)

Special section

• Action Against Hunger Research for Nutrition conference, 2017 (page 58)
• Key findings from the Click-MUAC Project (page 59)
• Evaluation of mobile application to support the treatment of acutely malnourished children in Wajir county, Kenya (page 61)
• Relapse after treatment for moderate acute malnutrition: Risk factors and interventions to prevent it (page 64)
• Development of a SAM photo diagnosis app (page 66)
• Improving child nutrition and development through community-based child care centres (CBCCs) in Malawi (page 68)
• Short and long-term droughts, food security and child mortality in Ethiopia: Can sub-national surveys tell us more about the success of mitigation efforts? (page 70)
• TreatFOOD study in Burkina Faso (page 73)
• How to improve the engagement of communities in research? (page 74)
• How to overcome data management challenges in research in crisis contexts (page 75)
• Death of children with SAM diagnosed by WHZ or MUAC: Who are we missing? (page 77)

Agency Profiles

• The Eleanor Crook Foundation (page 92)

News & Views

• Joint IAEA-WHO-UNICEF workshop on biological pathways to better understand the double burden of malnutrition (page 39)
• Improving nutrition surveys: New developments and changes at UNHCR (page 40)
• New online training: Accelerating behaviour change in nutrition-sensitive agriculture from the SPRING project (page 41)
• Management of At risk Mothers and Infants (MAMI) meeting (page 42)
• Wasting and Stunting Technical Interest Group (WaSt TIG) meeting (page 43)
• en-net update (page 44)
• Famine in Somalia: Competing Imperatives, Collective Failures, 2011-12 (page 45)
• Getting on the same page: Reaching across disciplinary boundaries to improve nutrition (page 46)