Action Against Hunger mental health and care practices : stories from the field

Action Against Hunger’s mission consists of saving lives by eradicating hunger through prevention, detection and treatment of malnutrition, particularly during and after emergency situations, in the aftermath of conflict, war and/or natural disaster.

From crisis to development, ACF tackles the underlying causes of malnutrition and its effects. By integrating its programs into local and national systems, and by using advocacy and research, ACF makes sure that short-term interventions become long-term solutions. ACF’s general technical strategy is based on the conceptual frame of the causes of malnutrition adapted from the 1997 UNICEF extended health-care model (see Figure 1). It considers the immediate, underlying and fundamental causes that determine the nutritional status of individuals and populations.