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

Uganda
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Despite an overall improvement in the level of security in the north of the country, most of the people in the north are still living in refugee camps. Humanitarian aid remains essential there. ACF is playing a key role in Uganda through its programs on malnutrition, drinking water, and food security.

Program Information

Directing HQ: 
Action Against Hunger - USA
Launch Date: 
January 1980
World Region: 
Africa
Location(s): 
Gulu, Moyo
Expatriates: 
6
Local Staff: 
100
Beneficiaries: 
750,000people
Funding: 
ECHO, OFDA, DFID, Italian Cooperation

Humanitarian Context

Since decolonization, the country has suffered from permanent political instability marked by the particular virulence of leaders in government. Rebel groups, such as the Lords Resistance Army (LRA), fight for power, especially in the north of the country (Acholiland). Eighty percent of the regions population (800,000 people) are living in camps for displaced people and displaced people have reduced access to drinking water, have no land to cultivate and no access to health services. Life expectancy in the region in less than 40 years.

The World Bank estimates that 50% of the population is living in poverty and Uganda has one of the highest rates of chronic malnutrition in the world (21%).

The Government has not shown an ability to control the demands and abuses (assassinations, rapes, etc.) which are reported on a daily basis in the region. Since June 2003 the violence has also spread to the districts of Gulu, Pader and Kitgum, implicating two other ethnic groups (Iteso and Langi). Between 20,000 and 100,000 people took refuge in the west of Uganda during the conflict in DR Congo.

Despite efforts at negotiation with Rwanda, both countries accuse each other of supporting the other's armed rebel groups.

Area(s) of Work

Nutrition: 
  • Nutrition monitoring and surveys
  • Health and nutrition training
  • Supplementary and therapeutic nutrition centers
Food Security: 
  • Tracking and monitoring of the situation at refugee camps
Water & Sanitation: 
  • Rehabilitation of water points
  • Hygiene and health training in refugee and displaced people camps