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

Argentina
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Although the country is quickly recovering from the serious economic crisis suffered four years ago, half the child population, that is, more than three million children, cannot meet their basic needs for food, clothes, transport, health and education.

Program Information

Directing HQ: 
Action Against Hunger - Spain
Launch Date: 
January 2002
World Region: 
Americas
Location(s): 
Partido de Moreno (Gran Buenos Aires), cities of Santa Fe and Rosario (Santa Fe province), Gran San Miguel de Tucumán (Tucumán province)
Expatriates: 
1
Local Staff: 
18
Beneficiaries: 
4,000people
Funding: 
AECI, UNICEF, Acción contra el Hambre

Area(s) of Work

Nutrition: 
  • Campaigns to promote a healthy diet and prevent malnutrition
  • Setting-up of nutritional surveillance systems
  • Research (anemia prevention and promotion of an integrated child development)
  • Surveys on nutrition
  • Strengthening of the response capacity of the provincial and local institutions that provide alimentary-nutritional assistance services
Food Security: 
  • Support for productive family and community-led projects through the transfer of resources (economic resources, technical assistance and capacity-building)
  • Strengthening of grass-root organizations that negotiate access to food strategies at community level
  • Carrying out of socio-economic vulnerability diagnoses