EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD AND PARTNERSHIP INSTRUMENT SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC
Malnutrition in Somalia is a huge public health problem, negatively affecting growth, development
and survival of the population. Situational analysis shows a long term nutrition crisis characterised
by persistently high rates of acute and chronic malnutrition throughout the country with some
variation by zone and livelihood system. This situation reflects nearly two decades of armed conflict
and insecurity, with breakdown in social and public services coupled with recurrent droughts and
flooding seriously affecting food security and livelihoods. In response to the alarming rates of
acute malnutrition, nutrition programming coordinated by the Nutrition Cluster, has been primarily
focussed on the immediate...