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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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About Youcef Hammache
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Youcef Hammache, Desk Officer / Mission Manager
Department of Operations

Youcef Hammache currently serves as Desk Officer and Senior Technical Advisor for ACF’s New York office. Mr. Hammache joined ACF in 1999, where he initially served as a water-and-sanitation engineer at ACF’s mission in Somalia, then in 2000 as a water-and-sanitation coordinator in Uganda. In 2002, he went to ACF’s Paris office where he was first a technical advisor, then a manager of programs in Algeria, Burundi, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Timor. In 2003, he became a desk officer in charge of Algeria, Burundi, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.

Before joining ACF, Mr. Hammache worked in Senegal, assessing water and sanitation needs in slums and in Madagascar, where he conducted a feasibility study for a bio-energy company. In 2000, Mr. Hammache’s article on how chlorination was used successfully to purify water in Mogadishu was published and presented at the 26th Annual Water, Engineering and Development Centre Conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Mr. Hammache earned his academic degrees at Lille in urban planning and environment, and at Bordeaux II Universities in public health (water and environment). He speaks English, French, Berber and has Arabic notions.