Completed Projects

To support to strengthen nutrition information systems in Yemen with support from the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) in close collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)/Yemen country office. To review the Nutrition Information and Analysis Systems (NIS) in Yemen through a rapid scoping exercise, an analysis of the pathways of […]

The objectives of this programme was to bring Somalia expertise and voices into the SHARP design process, help partners to develop coherent programme and delivery options and support harmonization across partner programmes for achievement of common impact and outcomes. CHC’s role was to : plan, organize and facilitate consultations, frame documents for each thematic area […]

Despite significant investment by government and donors to address acute malnutrition in Kenya’s Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) over many years, acute malnutrition rates frequently remain above emergency levels and even when households’ access to food and quality healthcare increases, there is little improvement. County level, context-specific, integrated, multi-sectoral initiatives that leverage ongoing emergency and […]

CHC supported the Global WASH Cluster (GWC) and UNICEF as cluster lead agencies in the development of an International Phased Classification (IPC) system for the WASH humanitarian coordination platforms to fulfill their key functions of response planning in an evidence-driven manner. The overall aim is to improve WASH response, with two specific objectives: better strategic […]

From 2016-2019, CHC in partnership with REACH conducted research on pastoralist women in Maasai and Samburu counties, Kenya, exploring the links between women empowerment and water security specifically deep diving into the constraints pastoralists women face regarding access to water and how this affects water security in relation to resource sustainability, inclusive services and sustainable […]

These projects were to help improve the understanding and analysis of households living in famine or famine-like conditions to enable improved prevention, mitigation and response. One of the challenges facing food security analysts across the region is accurately distinguishing household characteristics between different phases of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) tool. CHC’s role […]

CHC collaborated with Feinstein International Center at Tufts University to conduct a study in 6 countries, Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria, to consider the constraints on data collection and analysis in extreme food security emergencies in countries with a high risk of famine. There are demonstrated limitations in the availability of high-quality […]

Undernutrition increases the risk of mortality and illness; it impedes physical growth and cognitive development irreversibly. It therefore reduces achievements at school, reduces physical productivity and results in a decrease in income potential later in life. An undernourished child is at risk of losing 10% of their lifetime earning potential (World Bank, 2015). At national […]