Final Independent Evaluation of the Nutrition Surveillance Activities of ACF-USA & Analysis of the Nutrition Situation in South Sudan

This document aims to review and evaluate the impact of the nutritional surveillance activities of ACF-USA in 2006 in terms of:

• the response by the humanitarian actors in South Sudan to the nutritional emergencies detected and to advocacy initiatives from nutritional surveys and assessments carried out (Section I);
• the outcome of the development of capacity for more national and international organizations to implement nutrition surveys (Section II).

Section III presents the nutritional situation in South Sudan in 2006, and in locations where surveillance is maintained, to compare trends in the nutritional status over the last 3 years. The analysis is drawn from all nutrition surveys carried out by ACF-USA and other agencies.