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These terms will help you understand the reality of emergency intervention and humanitarian aid.

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WASH is an acronym (used as noun by aid workers) and stands for water supply, sanitation and hygiene. WASH programs promote good personal and environmental hygiene in order to protect health.

Domain: Non-profit organizations; Category: Advocacy

In humanitarian aid, core standards are a set of qualitative standards common to all the sectors of intervention. The six core standards defined by the Sphere Project are: people-centred ...

Domain: Non-profit organizations; Category: Advocacy

An operational partner, usually a national non-for-profit organization, who signs an agreement and receives funds to realize a project or some of its components.

Domain: Non-profit organizations; Category: Advocacy

A population is food secure when all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food. Dietary needs and food preferences must be also met.

Domain: Non-profit organizations; Category: Advocacy

The term livelihood refers to the activities and strategies through which people earn an income and provide for themselves and for their families. Livelihood programs target vulnerable rural and ...

Domain: Non-profit organizations; Category: Advocacy

Stunting children are too short for their age. Stunting is a consequence (or adaptation strategy) to chronic children malnutrition and/or repeated acute infections.

Domain: Non-profit organizations; Category: Advocacy

Wasting means being dangerously underweight as a consequence of loss of fat and muscle mass. Wasting is usually caused by low nutrient intake and loss of nutrients due to illness.

Domain: Non-profit organizations; Category: Advocacy

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