United Nations
Sub-Committee on Nutrition

This report is issued on the general responsibility of the Secretariat of the UN System/Standing Committee on Nutrition; the material it contains should not be regarded as necessarily endorsed by, or reflecting the official positions of the UNS/SCN and its UN member agencies. The designations employed and the presentation of material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the UNS/SCN or its UN member agencies.

This report was compiled by Claudine Prudhon of the UNS/SCN Secretariat Sarah Philpot assisted in the editing

The chairman of the UNS/SCN is Catherine Bertini

We would like to thank all those NGOs and UN agencies who contributed information to this report, particularly:
AAH-UK, ACF-F, AAH-USA, ACH-S, AI, CONCERN, CRS, FAO, FEWS, FSAU, ICRC, IFRC, Medair, Merlin, MSF-B, MSF-F, MSF-H, MSF-S, OCHA, OLS, OXFAM, SCF-UK, TearFund, UNHCHR, UNHCR, UNICEF, USAID, WFP, WHO, World Visio

If you have information to contribute to forthcoming reports, or would like to request back issues of the Reports on the Nutrition Situation of Refugees and Displaced Populations (RNIS), please contact:

Claudine Prudhon, RNIS Coordinator, UNS/Standing Committee on Nutrition
20, avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, SWITZERLAND
Tel: +(41-22) 791.04.56, Fax: +(41-22) 798.88.91,
Email: scn@who.int Web: http://unsystem.org/scn

Funding support is gratefully acknowledged from CIDA, DFA (Ireland), NORAD, DFID (UK), UNHCR, UNICEF and WFP This report was made possible through the support provided to the Food and Nutrition Assistance (FANta) Project by the Office of Health and Nutrition Bureau for Global Programs, Field Support and Research at the U.S. Agency for International Development, under the terms of Cooperative Agreement No. HNE-A-00-98-00046-00 awarded to the Academy for Educational Development (AED). The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Agency for International Development