Reports

By Hisham Khogali Hisham Khogali is currently the Senior Food Security Officer of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. Prior to this, Hisham worked for Oxfam as a Food and Nutrition Advisor and has worked for…

By George Kararach For the past two years, George Kararach has worked as a consultant policy analyst in Zimbabwe - for the last year working with UNICEF Zimbabwe. The support of UNICEF in preparing this article is gratefully acknowledged. The opinions…

Summary of research1 During the periods 1992-3 and 1995-6, a child supplementary feeding programme (CSFP) was used in Zimbabwe to combat child malnutrition associated with times of drought. Evaluations in the past have concluded that the CSFP was effective in…

By Fiona Watson Fiona has recently been in southern Africa with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), looking at the role of needs assessments during the current crisis The situation in Zimbabwe has spiralled into crisis as a result of complex underlying…