General data

ACF France's Mission

Launch date : 1991
Local staff : 130
Expatriates : 17

Intervention areas:

• Bong county
• Lofa county
• Margibi county
• Montserrado county
• Nimba county

Types of intervention:

• Water and sanitation
• Food security
• Nutrition and Care Practices
  
  

Country key figures

Population: 3,5 million * 
Population density: 93 persons per square mile (1540 in Montserrado)*
Under-5 mortality rate: 112 deaths per 1000 births
GDP: 0.9 billions USD** 

GDP per capita: 190 USD**

GDP growth annual: 4.6%**

Life expectancy: 59 years**

Source

* Government of Liberia, 2008 National Population and Housing Census

** World Bank, World Development Indicators 2010

Humanitarian context

Action Against Hunger in Liberia

ACF France has been implementing programmes in Liberia since 1991.
Nowadays the ACF team works in collaboration with Government bodies and local entities to increase the coverage of water, sanitation, hygiene, nutrition, food security services. Specific focus is paid to long term, sustainable assistance to underprivileged people in both remote rural areas and impoverished urban areas.
In addition the above, the organization maintains a significant capacity to react in emergency situations, such as the influx of Ivorian refugees in early 2011

Bong county

Nutrition

• Support to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, in cooperation with Medicins du Monde

• Support in the detection and treatment of severe acute malnutrition

• Training of health staff

Lofa county

Water and sanitation:

• Rehabilitation and construction of water points

• Rehabilitation and construction of sanitation facilities

• Support to local actors for the maintenance and management of the infrastructures

• Hygiene promotion

• Training of water pump mechanics

Margibi county

 Nutrition:

• Support to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, in cooperation with Save The Children

• Support in the detection and treatmet of severe acute malnutrition

• Training of health staff

Montserrado county

Nutrition

• Technical support to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare

• Support in the detection and treatmet of severe acute malnutrition

• Training of health staff

Food security

• Advocating for an integrated approach for food security and nutrition

• Kitchen gardening in urban, densily populated, areas

Nimba county

Water and sanitation

• Management of water, hygiene and sanitation in the Bahn refugee camp

• Construction of water and sanitation infrastructures in refugees relocation villages

• Purification of water in remote rural communities

• Hygiene promotion

Nutrition

• Support to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare

• Support in the detection and treatmet of severe acute malnutrition

• Training of health staff

Funding

• ECHO
• Europe Aid
• DFID (Department for International Development)
• SDC (Swiss agency for Development and Cooperation)
• UNHCR
• UNICEF
• World Food Program