ACF International Network
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Action Against Hunger has developed its water and sanitation expertise over nearly three decades of field work, advancing a number of solutions for populations at risk from water insecurity.
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Central to the targeting of malnutrition, Action Against Hunger extends water and sanitation improvements to communities with little or no access to proper sources.
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Action Against Hunger's programs are sustainable because of our commitment to community participation—to build local capacity and harnesses a population's energy and resources.
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Though strategies may vary, our food security interventions all share a common goal: to fight hunger by preserving and strengthening livelihoods in a sustainable and contextual manner.
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Action Against Hunger’s innovative food security programs offer a broad range of solutions for generating income, boosting food production, and strengthening livelihoods.
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Our comprehensive approach to hunger involves extending water and sanitation services to communities faced with water scarcity, unsafe drinking water, and inadequate sanitation.
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Action Against Hunger occupies a unique place among international organizations: our expertise encompasses emergency relief, longer-term development, and the terrain in between.
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We have developed an effective method to treat acute malnutrition that includes field-tested protocols and nutritional products backed by an international scientific advisory committee.
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Action Against Hunger helps rehabilitate and restock public health infrastructure, fields mobile health clinics, and trains local medical personnel on preventative and diagnostic care.
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Our comprehensive programs address the linkages between disease and malnutrition by coordinating with local expertise and strengthening existing public health systems.
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Where We Work

D.R. Congo
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The huge size of the country and the extent of the needs explain the slow improvement in the standard of living amongst the population. Although the country is officially now at peace, malnutrition, lack of health care and food insecurity remains the norm. ACF is active in 3 provinces out of 11.

Program Information

Directing HQ: 
Action Against Hunger - USA
Launch Date: 
January 1996
World Region: 
Africa
Location(s): 
Kinshasa, Lumumbashi, Malenba, Nkulu, Mbandaka, Boende, Uvira, Bukavu, Shabundu, Baraka, Moba
Expatriates: 
40
Local Staff: 
600
Beneficiaries: 
700,000people
Funding: 
ECHO, OFDA, DFID, EU, WFP, UNICEF, FAO, OCHA

Humanitarian Context

  • In 2000, after 36 years of the Mobutu regime, four years of war and the absence of international aid, the Democratic Republic of Congo was in a state of collapse.
  • The conflict has directly or indirectly caused the death of 3.3 million people, mainly due to malnutrition, lack of medicines or incidents occurring during population displacements.
  • The existing public services (schools, hospitals, social services, etc.) either do not work or are incapable of responding to the demands of the population.
  • In the so-called 'rebel zone' (to the east of the River Congo), confrontations between rebel groups (in which the Rwandan and Ugandan governments are implicated) are common. Extortion and the systematic violation of human rights are the direct consequence of this war against the civilians of D.R. Congo, given the powerlessness of the United Nations mission deployed in the area (MONUC).
  • The recent discovery of oilfields near the Ugandan border could worsen the security situation in coming months

Area(s) of Work

Nutrition: 
  • Supplementary feeding centres
  • Therapeutic feeding centres
Food Security: 
  • Distribution of seeds and tools
  • Rehabilitation of irrigation systems
  • Demonstration agricultural plots
  • Freshwater fishing
  • Cultivation of yucca and soya
  • Support to agricultural and fishing cooperatives
Water & Sanitation: 
  • Provision of drinking water in health centres
  • Community water committees
  • Emergency response training
Health: 
  • Health centres
  • Epidemiological monitoring (cholera and measles outbreaks)