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

Philippines
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800,000 people displaced by the conflict have no access to basic services or minimum guarantees for secure development. Since the last peace agreements the number of displaced people has decreased by 20,000.

Program Information

Directing HQ: 
Action Against Hunger - Spain
Launch Date: 
January 2000
World Region: 
Asia
Location(s): 
Central Mindanao ( Autonomous Region in the Moslem Mindanao and Central Region Mindanao ) and Luzón ( Bicol Region )
Expatriates: 
4
Local Staff: 
40
Beneficiaries: 
35,000people
Funding: 
European Commission, ECHO, OFDA, AECI, City Council of Pamplona, Acción contra el Hambre, Government of Valencia.

Humanitarian Context

Although the conflict that has been taking place between Christians and Muslims in the Philippines for more than 30 years is often labelled a 'religious war', land ownership issues play an important part in fuelling the conflict (rule by Christian colonists since 1946).

  • 800,000 people displaced by the conflict have no access to basic services or minimum guarantees for secure development. Since the last peace agreements the number of displaced people has decreased by 20,000.
  • The country is of strategic importance in the 'fight against terrorism' since it is an important US ally. There are important fundamentalist groups in the country.
  • Demographic pressure is causing environmental problems such as over-fishing around some islands. The Philippines are highly vulnerable to natural disasters.
  • The administrative system is very weak due to the country's geography (more than 7,000 islands).
  • Numerous minority groups accuse the central government in Manila of discrimination and premeditated exclusion.

Area(s) of Work

Emergency: 
  • Response to the consequences of the typhoon Millennium in September 2006
  • Humanitarian response to the consequences of the typhoon Durián in December 2006
Food Security: 
  • Displaced families’ recuperation of the capability of agricultural production
  • Agricultural and productive diversification
  • Training of women and teens in several occupations
  • Income-Generating Activities
Water & Sanitation: 
  • Construction of wells and rehabilitation
  • Committees’ creation of water
  • Improvement of the system of conduction of water by gravity
  • Systems of rainwater collection and reservoirs
  • Protection of springs
  • Construction of individual and communal latrines
  • Hygiene training
  • Hygienic kits distribution