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FOOD AND NUTRITION BULLETIN
Volume 30, Issue 4, Pages 379-389Publisher
INT NUTRITION FOUNDATION
DOI: 10.1177/156482650903000409
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Consolidated appeals process; emergency nutrition; United Nations; wasting
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This paper examines how nutrition has been used to raise humanitarian relief resources through the United Nations appeals process, from 1992 to early 2009. Recent calls for nutrition safety nets as a response to the world food price crisis reflect a growing recognition of nutrition as a key element in crisis management, not simply as a metric of how bad things have become. The evolution in thinking about the role of nutrition in emergency programming is reflected in changes in how nutrition has been conceptualized and presented in the consolidated appeals process. Based on a desk review, supported by key informant interviews, the paper highlights important changes that include an increasing distinction that separates nutrition from food, water, and health; the importance of synergies across sectors; increased emphasis on essential packages of inputs and services versus stand-alone activities; the importance of technical rigor in food and nutrition assessment and surveys, the need for technical competency and capacity in the design and management of nutrition interventions; and the importance of planning for long-term change even in delivering a short-term response. There has also been growing emphasis on specificity in objectives - a trend linked to demand for more accountability across the humanitarian system. Enhanced emergency preparedness will requirefurther capacity building and improved systems for surveillance and data management. Without more systematic, targeted attention to pre-crisis malnutrition, the resources needed to tackle nutrition problems during emergencies will continue to grow.
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