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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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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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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 Silke Pietzsch
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Silke Pietzsch, Food Security Advisor
Department of Operations

Silke Pietzsch has worked in the area of humanitarian and development work in different settings and organisations, always in the field of Food Security and Livelihoods, as well as nutrition.

Silke has worked with ICRSAT (crop research, 1998) and GTZ (2000) in Asia (Bangladesh, Nepal, India and Sri Lanka) on improved seed varieties, addressing the problematic of changing rainy seasons and increased risks to drought, and on community development programmes. Afterwards she joined AAH – UK (2002) to open the missions of Malawi and Zimbabwe, and facilitated the first exploratory mission in Swaziland.

She then joined MSF-NL to find out about nutrition programming in Ethiopia, but rejoined the food security and livelihoods team with Oxfam GB (2004) as a humanitarian support personal, covering flood emergencies in Bangladesh, India and Nepal, the Tsunami response in India and Andaman, the droughts and resulting food crises in Niger and Mali, and chronic crises in East Africa. After a stand in Oxford headquarters for OGB, she rejoined Action Against Hunger in 2006 in Niger where she was Food Security Coordinator, focusing on improving agro-pastoral production through improved techniques and seed varieties, improving natural resource management through agro forestry, diversifying income generation and contributing to national and local surveillance systems, including remote sensing in pastoral areas.

Silke holds a Master of Food Science and Household Economy from the University of Kiel, and a Master of Public Health from the University of Maastricht. She speaks English, French, German, and has notions of Nepali and Dutch.