Key Figures

PEOPLE IN NEED
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PiN Blanco
1.72 M
01 Dec 2022
TARGET POPULATION
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200.9 K
01 Dec 2022
Financial Requirements
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Requerimientos financieros
$13.84 M
01 Dec 2022
Appealing partners
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partners
25
01 Dec 2022

What is the Nutrition Sector?

Priority Needs

The nutrition situation of refugee and migrant children remains an issue of concern, particularly acute malnutrition, as shown by nutritional screenings of refugee and migrant children under the age of five in 2019-2020 in Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru. This situation has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis and will most likely continue in the years to come: an increase in malnutrition cases may be expected in 2021 as a result of the pandemic, mainly due to the deterioration of the level of food security among refugees and migrants and limited access to health and nutrition services.

Response Strategy

Scope of the sector response: Addressing the needs of the most nutritionally vulnerable, particularly children (under the age of five and under the age of two) and pregnant and lactating women will be at the core of the nutrition response in the region.

Response priorities: At regional level, the main response priorities are:

1.         Provision of technical support and guidance to National and Sub-regional Platforms in the implementation, monitoring and reporting of response activities at the country level;

2.        Capacity development of National and Subregional Platforms in key sectoral topics;

3.        Facilitation of knowledge sharing and exchange of countries’ experiences, lessons learnt and best practices.

At the country level, main priorities are:

  • Prevention of malnutrition in vulnerable groups, through infant and young child feeding counseling, targeting caregivers of children aged 6-23 months (focusing on appropriate breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices); micronutrient supplementation for children under the age of five, to fortify foods that are not sufficiently nutritionally diversified; and promotion of an adequate diet in pregnant and lactating women and provision of micronutrient supplementation (iron and folic acid).
  • Identification and treatment of acute malnutrition, through screening refugee and migrant children under the age of five to monitor their nutritional status and identify cases of acute malnutrition, and refer identified cases to adequate treatment and follow-up until nutritional recovery.

Adapting activities to the COVID-19 context according to global guidelines will be key to avoid contamination risks.

Integrated response approaches

Coordination with the Health Sector will help to ensure access to essential nutrition services; coordination with the Food Security Sector will ensure that specific nutrition needs of vulnerable groups are taken into account in food assistance; and coordination with the WASH Sector will guarantee quality drinking water, basic sanitation and promote food hygiene practices.

Response modalities

The Nutrition Sector will mainly work through three modalities: 1) support to strengthen local nutrition services and capacities of community-based actors, health actors, R4V partners and local entities; 2) provision of supplies for the prevention and treatment of malnutrition (including micronutrient powders, micronutrient supplements, and ready-to-use therapeutic food); and 3) social and behavior change communication/awareness-raising to promote healthy dietary practices & diets, including feeding of children under the age of two, using local foods.

Documents

Response Plan
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RMRP 2023/2024 - Plano Regional e Capítulo Brasil

O capítulo brasileiro do Plano de Resposta para Refugiados e Migrantes (RMRP, da sigla em inglês) é parte de uma estratégia regional estimada em US$ 1,72 bilhão para 2023 e US$ 1,57 bilhão para 2024, que será colocada em prática por meio de atividades desenhadas para apoiar as necessidades crescentes de refugiados e migrantes da Venezuela e suas comunidades de acolhida em 17 países na América Latina e no Caribe.

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27 March 2023
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Data and statistics
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Joint Needs Assessment (JNA) 2023

This assessment was carried out between June and July 2022 and published in January 2023, as a joint exercise by various actors of the Interagency Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela (R4V). Special thanks to Venezuelan refugees and migrants in Brazil who took the time to respond to the survey.

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13 March 2023
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Assessment
Report
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GTRM Peru - Joint Needs Analysis for the RMRP 2023

This Joint Needs Assessment (JNA) is the result of a collective effort by the 100 members of the Refugee and Migrant Working Group (GTRM, for its acronym in Spanish), working together with the Peruvian state. Each year, the methodology is improved, more documents are analyzed, more key informants are interviewed, and more organizations and experts join this effort. This year, we also consulted with the Venezuelan refugee and migrant population for their feedback on the needs and solutions identified during the sectoral workshops. The JNA has especially valuable data this year from the second National Survey on the Venezuelan population (ENPOVE, for its acronym in Spanish), conducted by the Peruvian National Institute of Statistics and Computer Science (INEI, for its acronym in Spanish). These data, gathered in February and March 2022, are representative of the Venezuelan population.  

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23 February 2023
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Assessment Response Plan RMRP JNA
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GIFMM Colombia: Resultados situación alimentaria y nutricional en Evaluación Conjunta de Necesidades población refugiada y migrante pendular - 2022

Infografía con los resultados de la situación alimentaria y nutricional identificada a través de la Evaluación Conjunta de Necesidades para población refugiada y migrante pendular realizada durante 2022.

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21 February 2023
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Evaluación #EvaluaciónConjuntadeNecesidades Pendular SAN
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Sector Contacts

Yvette Fautsch

UNICEF

yfautsch@unicef.org