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SudanSee Also: Emergency Nutrition; Food Aid; Food Security; HIV; Infant and Child Nutrition FANTA has supporting USAID with activities in both the Darfur region and South Sudan. In Darfur, FANTA has been working with USAID’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) to help ensure the effectiveness of programs in managing and preventing malnutrition. In South Sudan, FANTA has been working with USAID’s Office of Food for Peace (FFP) and USAID/Sudan to improve food security through enabling more focused current food aid programming and identifying potential linkages with longer-term development programs. Sudan Food Transition Study: USAID/Sudan has developed a Strategy Statement to respond to the significant challenges and opportunities in supporting the southern Sudanese transition from war to peace. To support this effort, FANTA undertook a Food Assistance Transition Study to assist USAID to assesses the impact of stability on those groups considered to be the most food insecure and nutritionally vulnerable in Southern Sudan. It also makes recommendations about how Title II resources should be used as an appropriate component in addressing the prevailing food security issues. Reviewing Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) Programs in Darfur: FANTA and UNICEF conducted a joint review of the quality and effectiveness of CMAM programs in Darfur. FANTA focused on inpatient and outpatient care of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and community outreach in the review, while UNICEF focused on supplementary feeding. The review, Review of Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) in the Post-emergency Context: Synthesis of Lessons on Integration of CMAM into National Health Systems, identified training deemed necessary to strengthen the capacity of NGO and Ministry of Health implementing partners. Field Validation of Alternative Sampling Designs in Emergency
Settings: FANTA, in collaboration with CRS, Save the Children
(SC)/US and Ohio State University, applied LQAS methods to develop
and test three new sampling designs to respond to the data collection
priorities of emergency settings. These alternative
sampling designs have been field tested in Sudan and Ethiopia,
where they were shown to provide rapid and statistically reliable
methods for assessing the prevalence of global acute malnutrition,
in addition to a number of other child and household level indicators.
An article reporting on the FANTA and SC/US field test in Sudan,
"Precision,
Time, and Cost: A Comparison of Three Sampling Designs in an Emergency
Setting", has been published in Emerging Themes in Epidemiology.
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