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Action Against Hunger has developed its water and sanitation expertise over nearly three decades of field work, advancing a number of solutions for populations at risk from water insecurity.
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Central to the targeting of malnutrition, Action Against Hunger extends water and sanitation improvements to communities with little or no access to proper sources.
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Action Against Hunger's programs are sustainable because of our commitment to community participation—to build local capacity and harnesses a population's energy and resources.
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Though strategies may vary, our food security interventions all share a common goal: to fight hunger by preserving and strengthening livelihoods in a sustainable and contextual manner.
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Action Against Hunger’s innovative food security programs offer a broad range of solutions for generating income, boosting food production, and strengthening livelihoods.
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Our comprehensive approach to hunger involves extending water and sanitation services to communities faced with water scarcity, unsafe drinking water, and inadequate sanitation.
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Action Against Hunger occupies a unique place among international organizations: our expertise encompasses emergency relief, longer-term development, and the terrain in between.
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We have developed an effective method to treat acute malnutrition that includes field-tested protocols and nutritional products backed by an international scientific advisory committee.
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Action Against Hunger helps rehabilitate and restock public health infrastructure, fields mobile health clinics, and trains local medical personnel on preventative and diagnostic care.
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Our comprehensive programs address the linkages between disease and malnutrition by coordinating with local expertise and strengthening existing public health systems.
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ACF Report: Women Essential in the Fight Against Hunger
International Women's Day 2006: ACF report emphasizes women's role as most efficient partners in ending hunger
March 8, 2006
London, UK — The international aid organization Action Against Hunger (ACF) launched its advocacy program Hunger Watch today from its UK office with a report released in conjunction with International Women's Day highlighting the importance of women in the fight against hunger.

Entitled Women and Hunger: Women's central role in the fight against hunger, the report is based on more than 25 years of ACF's program experience and reviews the difficulties and inequalities facing women throughout the world.

"Women are expected to fetch water, gather firewood, prepare the meals, care for their children, clean the house, and work in the field," said Cathy Skoula, executive director for ACF's USA office. "Yet many times programs do not take this workload into account, ignoring the impact of women on the well-being of their families when designing programs."

Noting that women play an important role in securing food for the household, the report highlights the vulnerabilities women face when food is not readily available especially in times of conflict, economic decline, or as a result of pandemics such as HIV/AIDS.

According to ACF, women are the main providers of food around the world; as such women are key partners in the struggle to end hunger. ACF's report recommends that agencies design programs in close consultation with women, ensuring that program activities are based on a gender analysis that recognizes power relations and the use and distribution of resources. Noting that humanitarian programs can as catalysts for change, ACF emphasizes that organizations can make more of a difference if gender issues are considered not as an additional factor but as a core part of their programs.

The report was produced out of ACF's UK office, and is the first of a number of reports to be published as part of the organization's Hunger Watch project. Hunger Watch was launched to provide analysis and advocacy on hunger-related issues.

Read the full report [2.50 MB]

About Action Against Hunger

Action Against Hunger / Action Contre la Faim (ACF), an international relief and development organization committed to saving the lives of malnourished children and families, provides sustainable access to safe water and long-term solutions to hunger. For nearly three decades, ACF has pursued its vision of a world without hunger by combating hunger in emergency situations of conflict, natural disaster, and chronic food insecurity.

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