Publications
Action Against Hunger’s international network produces a variety of published works from context analysis and regional assessments to community surveys and field reports.
Recent Publications
ACF Uganda: Lessons from Northern Uganda in Addressing Gender Based Violence
September, 2014Action Against Hunger aims to empower women in Northern Uganda using a two pronged strategy; a) cash transfers, skills training and VSLAs for income generating activities, and b) interventions to prevent violence against women at the household and community level.
ACF Guinée: Project "Mamans bouillie": Allier activités génératrices de revenus et prévention de la sous-nutrition
December, 2013Since 2008, ACF spain has been overseeing a malnutrition treatment program by supporting five health centers integrated in the Conakry region of Guinea. ACF Spain and its partners have been supporting local intitiatives such as, "Porridge Mums," who produce and sell nutritious food (predominately for children and newborns) by strengthening the capacity of these projects to ensure a sustainable improvement in income and participate, through their action, to malnutrition prevention.
Humanitarian principles in conflict: Ensuring humanitarian principles are respected in armed conflicts and other situations of violence: ACF’s experience and position
December, 2013The purpose of this paper is to state ACF’s position on the application of the humanitarian principles and to highlight the importance and challenges of applying them when working in situations of armed conflict and social unrest.
ACF Case Study: Pakistan: Nutrition mainstreaming in flood response programming
December, 2013Pakistan experienced some of the worst floods in its history in 2010, affecting more than one-tenth of Pakistan's population. Chronic food insecurity and a poor baseline nutrition situation were worsened by the floods, which heavily damaged livelihoods, weakened coping mechanisms and created a humanitarian emergency in an area where structural poverty and inequity already existed.
What Does It Mean to Implement a Research Uptake Strategy? Experiences from the REFANI Consortium - Summary on the Panel Discussion
December, 2013Summary of REFANI's panel discussion on research uptake, held on October 4, 2016 in London.
ACF Case Study: Liberia: Strengthening integrated systems for management and prevention of malnutrition in Greater Monrovia
December, 2013Liberia's capital, Monrovia, is home to a third of the nation's population, intensifying pressure on resources and installations such as water and sanitation facilities. ACF launched an eleven month integrated food security and nutrition programme in April 2011 following reports of widespread malnutrition throughout the country by a Comprehensive Food Security & Nutrition Survey in 2010 and pilot program run by ACF.
ACF Pakistan: Intégration de la nutrition dans le programme de réponse aux inondations
December, 2013Pakistan experienced some of the worst floods in its history in 2010, affecting more than one-tenth of Pakistan's population. Chronic food insecurity and a poor baseline nutrition situation were worsened by the floods, which heavily damaged livelihoods, weakened coping mechanisms and created a humanitarian emergency in an area where structural poverty and inequity already existed.
ACF Case Study: Guinea Conakry: Project "porridge mums": Combining income generating activities and undernutrition prevention
December, 2013Since 2008, ACF spain has been overseeing a malnutrition treatment program by supporting five health centers integrated in the Conakry region of Guinea. ACF Spain and its partners have been supporting local intitiatives such as, "Porridge Mums," who produce and sell nutritious food (predominately for children and newborns) by strengthening the capacity of these projects to ensure a sustainable improvement in income and participate, through their action, to malnutrition prevention.
ACF Liberia: Renforcement du système intégré de gestion et de prévention de la malnutrition dans le Grand Monrovia
December, 2013Liberia's capitial, Monrovia, is home to a third of the nation's population, intensifying pressure on resources and installations such as water and sanitation facilities. ACF launched an eleven month integrated food security and nutrition programme in April 2011 following reports of widespread malnutrition throughout the country by a Comprehensive Food Security & Nutrition Survey in 2010 and pilot program run by ACF. The objective of the programme was to reduce morbidity and mortality from malnutrition in children under five years old in Greater Monrovia.
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Action Against Hunger is leading a global movement to end hunger in our lifetimes. It innovates solutions, advocate for change, and reach 25 million people every year with proven hunger prevention and treatment programs. As a nonprofit that works across 50 countries, its 8,300 dedicated staff members partner with communities to address the root causes of hunger, including climate change, conflict, inequity, and emergencies. It strives to create a world free from hunger, for everyone, for good.
