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Monitoring food distributions: a Zambia Red Cross Society experience

08 May 2014
The Zambia Red Cross Society (ZRCS) undertook extensive food distributions in response to the droughts in 2002 and 2003. The International Federation recruited a food security delegate to help National Societies in the region to increase their capaci...
Case Study, Livelihoods and Food Security
Case Study

Namibia Red Cross’ integrated food security intervention

08 May 2014
The Namibia Red Cross introduced an integrated food security project in 2011 in order to address food availability and access as well as malnutrition and poverty within its programme areas. This was implemented as part of the National Society’s bro...
Case Study, Livelihoods and Food Security
Case Study

Reducing food insecurity: the Liberian Red Cross Society’s experience

08 May 2014
Towards the end of 2002, the Liberian Red Cross Society began to provide basic farming implements including tools, seeds, insecticides and fertilizers to communities in three of Liberia’s 15 counties: Grand Bassa, Margibi and Rivercess. These count...
Case Study, Livelihoods and Food Security
Case Study

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

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