Mikama - Jul 27, 2018

Madagascar PREPAREDNESS WORKING GROUP
The Logistics Cluster provides coordination and Information Management to support operational decision-making and improve the predictability, timeliness and efficiency of the humanitarian emergency response. Where necessary, the Logistics Cluster also facilitates access to common logistics services. Due to its expertise in the field of humanitarian logistics, the World Food Programme was chosen by the IASC as the lead agency for the Logistics Cluster . WFP hosts the Global Logistics Cluster support team in its headquarters in Rome. WFP also acts as a ‘provider of last resort’ offering common logistics services, when critical gaps hamper the humanitarian response.

Dans Relief Web
The Nutrition Surveillance System, implemented in 120 of 224 communes in Southern Madagascar, showed that 37 per cent have a global acute malnutrition prevalence (GAM) greater than 10 per cent; though the situation is similar to last year, UNICEF continues both its interventions and monitoring of the nutrition situation in the region. Of the four districts in the South-Eastern part of the country, the Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) for Acute Food Insecurity completed in May 2018 has found two districts in Phase 3/Crisis, and the other two districts in Phase 2/Alert. On the nutritional side, a SMART survey in April 2018 in these same four districts showed no emergency (GAM> 15%), though one district showed an alarming situation (GAM> = 10%).

Dans WFMJ
Rakotondraibe is from Madagascar and brought the compounds from the Cinnamosma fragrans tree, commonly called mandravasarotra, with him to Columbus. The bark is used in traditional medicines on the island. "It's very exciting to me first, because it's a plant from Madagascar and it's endemic. So endemic means only Madagascar you can find it. The chemical components are very unique. It's also natural and most of the insecticides that have been used are not natural. So this will help the community a lot. I think this is very very exciting," Rakotondraibe said. The bark from the small tree worked equally well on mosquitoes resistant to common insecticides. "These fragrant molecules are contributing to, I think, some of these activities which is kind of interesting and it smells really pleasant. It's almost like when you open up a spice rack and you kind of have that peppery aroma that's what the bark smells like," Piermarini said. The active ingredient, cinnamodial, activates the same receptors in mosquitoes that help us pick up pain from hot surfaces and spicy foods.