Highlights
In January, UNHCR completed the first phase of the de-activation exercise that started in December 2014. The first phase concerned 9,382 individuals (3,224 families) in Mberra camp where no individuals were registered as Malians in the national database of the Agence Nationale du Registre des Populations et des Titres Sécurisés.
UNHCR organized participatory Age, Gender and Diversity Mainstreaming (AGDM) sessions, in Nouakchott and in Mberra camp to better identify specific needs for each group of refugees in Mauritania and discuss strategies for 2016/2017.
Based on the SMART/SENS nutrition survey, agencies have developed strategies to combat malnutrition in the camp, leading to a substantial reduction of the Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) and Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) rates from, respectively 13,2% and 3,2% in 2012 to 9,9% and 0,5% in 2014. These malnutrition rates are now below the alarm thresholds of 10% for GAM and 2% for SAM.
In January, 51,774 Malian refugees received food during the monthly distribution in Mberra camp.
