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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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About Marie-Sophie Simon
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Marie-Sophie Simon, Senior Nutrition Advisor
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Marie-Sophie Simon, a French native, is the Technical Coordinator for Action Against Hunger-USA. She first joined ACF in July 2000 as a nurse/nutritionist and has field experience in many countries including Burundi, Northern Sudan, the Ivory Coast, and Pakistan. Ms. Simon has lead the nutritional teams during all of her ACF-USA missions: South Sudan, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo East and West.

Specifically, Ms. Simon has worked on nutritional surveys in two provinces, Kayanza and Kirundo, Burundi. She implemented Therapeutic Feeding Centers (TFCs) and Supplementary Feeding Centers (SFCs) in Ruyigi province of Burundi in partnership with the Ministry of Health. She conducted nutritional surveys and worked on implementing Supplementary Feeding Centers (SFCs) in Bentiu, Unity State and Bahr al Gazal in Northern Sudan. She also conducted an exploratory mission in Bouake, Ivory Coast. In Pakistan, Ms. Simon conducted nutritional surveillance in the new Afghan refugee camps in Balochistan, and NWFP, in partnership with UNHCR.

She received a four month training in Dakar, Senegal at the Institute de Technologie Alimentaire (ITS) in partnership the Institute of Research and Development (IRD). She finished her study by completing her project on the consumption of aflatoxin (the most cancerous agent) from groundnuts.

Prior to her extensive work in the field, Ms. Simon graduated from the Nice and Montpellier Sciences University, France with a bachelor's and master's degree in genetics of the population and ecosystems. She also received another master's in "Nutrition for Underdeveloped Countries" in Montpellier, France.