Uganda Refugee Health & Nutrition report - Q1 (Jan to March 2021)
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Food Security and Nutrition Assessment
UNHCR is in the final stages of concluding the 2020 Refugee Food Security and Nutrition Assessment and in the planning phase for the dissemination. Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) with support from MOH, UNHCR, WFP, FAO, and partners were engaged in the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification for Acute Malnutrition (IPC AMN) in all refugee settlements and Kampala. IPC AMN classifies regions based on their severity of acute malnutrition and projects the outlook based on key assumptions.
Public Health engagements
Ministry of Health, OPM and UNHCR held meeting with the districts from the South-West region to develop the district transition plan from NGOs partners to district local government. These transition plans are among the disbursement linked indicators for the World Bank supported UGIFT programme.
Summary If a humanitarian crisis could be prevented or mitigated by acting ahead of the shock causing it, what signals would be needed to understand when anticipatory action should be taken? The Centre for Humanitarian Data’s Predictive Analytics team developed such a trigger to respond to projected drought-related food insecurity in Ethiopia. They undertook a historical
Supporting longer term development in crises at the nexus: Lessons from Cameroon
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Executive summary
This Cameroon country report contributes to a multi-country study1 focusing on the role of development actors in addressing people’s longer term needs, risks and vulnerabilities, and supporting operationalisation of the humanitarian–development–peace (HDP) nexus.
This is pertinent to the Covid-19 response, involving both immediate lifesaving assistance and longer term support for health systems, socioeconomic impacts and peacebuilding.2 Experience in Cameroon can inform global policy and practice for several reasons.
Cameroon moved from a position of stability to three concurrent crises in the last five years, providing a learning opportunity for development actors adapting to deepening crises. It featured in an Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s (IASC) study on financing the nexus,3 presenting opportunities to build on these findings. Cameroon is a priority count
Somalia Cash and Markets Quarterly Dashboard - Monthly Update (April 2020)
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INTRODUCTION
Cash-based interventions have been used by humanitarian organisations in Somalia since 2003. Initially, significant variations in transfer values were implemented by different organisations, occasionally leading to different transfer values in the same locations. It was against this backdrop, and as a response to the increasing number of agencies using cash-based interventions to respond to the 2016-2017 drought, that the Somalia Cash Working Group (CWG) started convening in February 2017. The aim of the CWG is to streamline the design, development, and implementation of cash-based interventions in Somalia.
Pursuant to these aims, the CWG provides quarterly transfer value recommendations, based on Somalia s standard minimum expenditure basket (MEB), to humanitarian organisations implementing cash-based interventions in Somalia. Due to anticipated disruption to supply chain as a result o