© Lys Arango pour Action contre la Faim
Eradicating hunger on a long-term basis and fighting efficiently against it, involves getting to the root causes: dysfunctional food systems, lack of access to water and sanitation infrastructures, inadequate health systems, conflicts, natural disasters, the effects of climatic change, status of the women, education, poverty…
Every day our teams conduct scientific research so that we can improve our operational programs. To be able to continue making progress in our global fight against hunger, our actions rely on seven areas of competence:
- Nutrition and health
- Water, sanitation & Hygiene
- Food security and resources of existence
- Mental Health, Psychosocial Support
- Advocacy
- Research
Nutrition & Health
Action Against Hunger is much more than food. Improving the coverage of essential health and nutrition interventions throughout the entire spectrum of maternal and childcare, including the treatment of malnutrition, is our priority.
In the aftermath of emergencies related to conflict and various sudden and diverse disasters, Action Against Hunger implements projects at the heart of populations to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health, with a particular focus on essential nutritional interventions.
Whether you are a doctor, nutritionist, nurse, epidemiologist, midwife/maieutician, pharmacist or public health specialist, we need your help to respond to global health and nutrition crises, support health systems and ultimately ensure the autonomy of actors.
In the field
At headquarters
© Christophe Da Silva pour Action contre la Faim
Food Security and Livelihoods
Action Against Hunger is much more than food. Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) is one of the pillars of our organization’s intervention; the aim is to enable vulnerable populations to have access to food of sufficient quality and quantity.
Our objectives are many, complex and often specific to the context of intervention: We therefore implement various actions in order to achieve our objectives:
- Food assistance
- Agricultural activities
- Income-generating activities in rural or urban areas
- Food Situation Monitoring
- Advocacy
At headquarters
© Christophe Da Silva pour Action contre la Faim
In the field
At headquarters
©Lys Arango pour Action contre la Faim
Mental Health Psychosocial Support
Every day, vulnerable populations in the countries where we operate have to cope with a considerable number of problems linked to climate, political issues or family imbalance, often in a highly volatile security context. Action contre la Faim believes that to act effectively and sustainably, our interventions must consider the integration of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support into its programs.
The Mental Health and Psychosocial Support sector develops autonomous projects or projects integrated with other sectors of the association.
In the field
At headquarters
© Sébastien Duijndam pour Action contre la Faim
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning
Action Against Hunger implements Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) systems to effectively meet the needs of communities by acting in the most effective, efficient and sustainable way possible.
The MEAL activities aim to provide methodological support to all program teams to ensure that the quality and relevance of program monitoring and internal evaluations carried out on the mission comply with Action Against Hunger’s operational framework.
As a Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Program manager or Head of Department, you will be responsible for the implementation of MEAL activities and ensure their follow-up and quality.
Following the analyses produced and recommendations formulated by these verifications, you will also be in charge of monitoring and supporting the adaptation of project activities implemented in the field, in order to guarantee high quality standards in all projects at mission, regional and headquarters levels.
®Paul Lorgerie pour Action contre la Faim
Research
Action Against Hunger believes that research, innovation and learning are essential to achieving its vision of a world without hunger and undernutrition. Our research is fundamentally linked to our operational programs and aims to improve the quality of our interventions through quantitative and qualitative studies, to better understand the causes of undernutrition in a given region, optimize the diagnosis of severe acute malnutrition and define new modalities for treatment/prevention of undernutrition.
In 2017, 52 research projects were carried out in 26 countries, involving 48 partners and 25% of our research projects were multisectoral.
One of our biggest projects is MAM’OUT and MANGO in Burkina Faso.
Action Against Hunger is committed to research in collaboration with partners, and our organization has continued to promote research partnerships. These come from academic, research, non-governmental, multilateral, private and public institutions.
Within the research unit and according to your expertise in the associated research field, you will be in charge of leading these projects from their design, to their implementation and up to the publication of the data.
