Case Study: Overcoming Child Wasting in Africa’s Mandera Triangle

Child wasting—that is, low weight for height, reflecting acute undernutrition—is the most dangerous form of malnutrition. Affecting 13.7 million children a year worldwide, wasting is responsible for up to 20 percent of deaths of children under the age of five (Osendarp et al. 2025).

A Closer Look at Hunger and Undernutrition in Ethiopia

Although Ethiopia is a low-income country, recent rapid economic growth has done a great deal to reduce the share of Ethiopians living in poverty.

Community Resilience in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa

Extremely poor people, Concern believes, have few assets or achieve little return on the assets they own. They cannot escape extreme poverty because of structural inequalities and because of risks and vulnerabilities.