Abstract
Nutrition Specific Interventions for Management of Malnutrition in Eastern Equatoria state, South Sudan – Challenges and Lessons for Non-Governmental Organizations
Highlights
Nutrition is essential for a population and children to survive grow and achieve their full potential in terms of social, economic, intellectual and physical
Years declined to 23.8 percent from 36.9 percent between 1990 and 2015 in 2017, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) indicated that number of undernourished people increased from 777 million to 815 million between 2015 and in 2016, a total of about 155 million children under age 5 were too short for their age, approximately 52 million didn’t weigh enough for their height and another close to 41 million were overweight Malnutrition is linked to nearly half of all deaths among children under the age of five [4,5,6,7]
The key informants were drawn from various non-government organizations implementing nutrition specific programs in Eastern Equatoria state in South Sudan
Summary
Nutrition is essential for a population and children to survive grow and achieve their full potential in terms of social, economic, intellectual and physical. Years declined to 23.8 percent from 36.9 percent between 1990 and 2015 in 2017, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) indicated that number of undernourished people increased from 777 million to 815 million between 2015 and in 2016, a total of about 155 million children under age 5 were too short for their age, approximately 52 million didn’t weigh enough for their height and another close to 41 million were overweight Malnutrition is linked to nearly half of all deaths among children under the age of five [4,5,6,7]. Decades long efforts have been exerted by Non-Governmental Organizations in partnership and collaboration with Governments, UN agencies and Donor communities to address malnutrition through nutrition specific interventions in resource poor and conflict prone countries. We argue that whereas nutrition specific responses do tackle under nutrition among vulnerable populations, they often tend to be limited in scope and sustainability
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