OCHA (office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs) is part of the United Nations Secretariat. Its mission is to ensure a coherent response to humanitarian emergencies by coordinating humanitarian actors.
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.
Stunting children are too short for their age. Stunting is a consequence (or adaptation strategy) to chronic children malnutrition and/or repeated acute infections.
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 urban populations and attempt at increasing their resilience.
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.
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.
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 humanitarian response, coordination and collaboration, assessment, design and response, performance, ...
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.
