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discussion paper
The use of operations research as a tool for monitoring and managing food-assisted maternal/child health nutrition (MCHN) programs
This report describes the methods and results of an operations research undertaken to assess the effectiveness of World Vision (WV)'s food assisted maternal and child health and nutrition (MCHN) program in the Central Plateau region of Haiti.
project paper
Food aid and dependency
book
Healing wounds
This study first reviews current thinking on the underlying causes of conflicts and disasters, identifying poverty as a major driver of both. Poverty breeds frustration, compelling the poor to turn to violence.
project paper
Assessing the effectiveness of community-based targeting of emergency food aid in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi
...IFPRI examined the effectiveness of community-based targeting following three recent emergencies: the 1998 floods in Bangladesh; the 2002 drought in Ethiopia; and the 2001-02 failed maize harvest in Malawi." -- From text
project paper
Assessing the longer-term impact of emergency food aid in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi
...IFPRI examined the effectiveness of community-based targeting following three recent emergencies: the 1998 floods in Bangladesh; the 2002 drought in Ethiopia; and the 2001-02 failed maize harvest in Malawi.
project paper
Operations research
Given the large amount of funds allocated to food-assisted Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN) programmes. . .it is critical to improve their effectiveness. Operations research holds promise for helping achieve this goal.
project paper
Using food aid to empower communities
...IFPRI examined the effectiveness of community-based targeting following three recent emergencies: the 1998 floods in Bangladesh; the 2002 drought in Ethiopia; and the 2001-02 failed maize harvest in Malawi."" -- From text
This report describes the methods and results of an operations research undertaken to assess the effectiveness of World Vision (WV)'s food assisted maternal and child health and nutrition (MCHN) program in the Central Plateau region of Haiti.
"The premise of a rights-based approach to ensuring adequate food is empowering poor people and those who are food insecure.
Food and nutrition security remain Africa’s most fundamental challenges. The number of Africans who are undernourished has been on the rise for decades and now stands at about 200 million people.
discussion paper
Community empowerment and scaling-up in urban areas
CARE began PROSPECT (Program of Support for Poverty Elimination and Community Transformation) in 1998. PROSPECT aims to reduce poverty in peri-urban areas of Lusaka.
discussion paper
Food aid for market development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Food aid remains significant for food availability in many low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa, helping to reduce the gap between food consumption needs and supply from domestic production and inventories and commercial imports.
discussion paper
Food aid distribution in Bangladesh
"The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) conducted a comprehensive study of the efficiency of food distribution in food aid-supported programs in Bangladesh.
"At a recent multi-actor all-Africa conference, a majority of the 500 participants-60 percent-believed that food security can be achieved in Africa by 2020 but only a minority-40 percent-believed that it will be achieved.
journal article
Rethinking food aid to fight AIDS
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the 1998 floods, the response of the government, and the coping strategies of households.