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Swaziland: good food security practices to share and replicate

08 May 2014
This publication provides an overview of the various sustainable nutrition-enhancing and revenue-generating projects undertaken by the Baphalali Swaziland Red Cross Society, in association with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Cresce...
Case Study, Livelihoods and Food Security
Case Study

Recovery and risk reduction through livelihood support in Timor-Leste

08 May 2014
Timor-Leste is emerging from decades of conflict that led to its independence from Indonesia in 2002. The country’s location and topography have made it vulnerable to a range of natural hazards that threaten lives and livelihoods. The newly establi...
Case Study, Livelihoods and Food Security
Case Study

Ethiopian droughts: reducing the risk to livelihoods through cash transfers

08 May 2014
South Wollo, in northern Ethiopia, is one of the zones hit by food insecurity. The population depends on agriculture and livestock for its livelihood. But recurrent drought has forced them to sell many assets and plunged them into destitution. As mou...
Case Study, Drought, Livelihoods and Food Security
Case Study

HIV and livelihoods in Africa – What can National Societies do?

08 May 2014
Many experts consider that AIDS is not only a health, political and/or security crisis; it is increasingly being recognized as a livelihood crisis. As a result, support is urgently needed for household and community-based livelihoods activities. By r...
Case Study, Livelihoods and Food Security
Case Study

Rwandan Red Cross: Experience in cow rotation

08 May 2014
As part of the national programme, the Rwandan Red Cross has provided for shelter, food security and livelihoods activities, especially for orphans, vulnerable families and returnees. A livestock initiative is one component of the food security and l...
Case Study, Livelihoods and Food Security
Case Study

Environmental disaster: Linking partners to tuberculosis prevention around the Aral Sea

08 May 2014
The Aral Sea has shrunk to just one third of its original size over the past three decades, creating a humanitarian disaster for millions of people who live around its shores. As ecological and economic stability have crumbled, thirst, malnutrition a...
Case Study, Livelihoods and Food Security
Case Study

Community home-based care for people living with HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe

08 May 2014
The Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS) recognized the increasing vulnerability of households to HIV/AIDS as early as 1988, when it set up the Integrated AIDS Project (IAP). This document describes its home-based care (HBC) programme and recent develop...
Case Study, Livelihoods and Food Security
Case Study

Mothers’ club in Togo

08 May 2014
Following the 5th Panafrican Conference, held in Ouagadougou in September 2000, the Togolese Red Cross decided to rethink its activities in order to maximize impact at the community level, in accordance with the ARCHI 2010 initiative (Health Initiati...
Case Study, Livelihoods and Food Security, Women and Gender in Disaster Management
Case Study

Strengthening hunger resilience – The Kenya Red Cross experience

08 May 2014
The KRCS in collaboration with the Japanese Red Cross Society and the IFRC launched a nine-month drought recovery project in 2009 to support drought-affected communities in Bangale, Bura and Madogo divisions of Tana North district. This case study ca...
Case Study, Drought, Livelihoods and Food Security
Case Study

Tackling malnutrition in Niger

08 May 2014
The Red Cross programmes set up by the French Red Cross in cooperation with the Niger Red Cross support capacity-building for health agents who are trained in the national protocols for the treatment of malnutrition. Under these programmes, integrate...
Case Study, Livelihoods and Food Security

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