ACF International Network
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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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Where We Work

Myanmar
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Half of the population lives below the poverty line and the World Health Organization (WHO) has ranked Myanmar 190 out of 191 in terms of its public sanitation. The literacy rate is one of the lowest in the world.

Program Information

Directing HQ: 
Action Against Hunger - France
Launch Date: 
January 1994
World Region: 
Asia
Location(s): 
Yangoun, Maungdaw and Buthidaung
Expatriates: 
10
Local Staff: 
200
Beneficiaries: 
38,438people
Funding: 
ECHO, WFP, EuropeAid, UNICEF, private donors

Humanitarian Context

Myanmar has a wide variety of ethnic and religious groups. Some ethnic minorities live an isolated existence around the mountainous areas.

Due to its strategic position between China and India, the territory of Myanmar was disputed during the Cold War. Today it is geographically speaking at the crossroads of the region's drugs trafficking routes, which contributes to the country's instability.

The international community is divided over whether or not to support the current regime in its fight against drugs trafficking regardless of its repression of ethnic minority groups and denunciations of its human rights violations. Foreign investors have withdrawn from the country.

Half of the population lives below the poverty line and the World Health Organization (WHO) has ranked Myanmar 190 out of 191 in terms of its public sanitation. The literacy rate is one of the lowest in the world.

The Wa State United Army, linked to drugs trafficking, had 20,000 troops, more than half of them children under 12 years of age.

At least a million Myanmarese have AIDS and infant mortality is estimated at 33%.

Area(s) of Work

Nutrition: 
  • 2 Therapeutic Feeding Centers
  • 13 Supplementary Feeding Centers
  • Assessment and monitoring of nutrition and health conditions
  • Support in the promotion of nutrition practices
Food Security: 
  • Income-generating activities
  • Distribution of seeds and farming tools
  • Monitoring and analysis of the alimentary situation and its context
Water & Sanitation: 
  • Creation of water management committees
  • Construction of familiar and public (at schools) latrines
  • Creation of 16 water points
  • Hygiene training