The objective of this review is to provide a short, accessible overview of what may be considered `good practice' in designing and implementing emergency supplementary feeding programmes (SFPs). It is aimed primarily at NGO, UN, and donor staff who are not specialists in nutrition and emergency feeding but who may, in the context of some future emergency, be involved in decisions about feeding programmes. The review may also prove useful to those nutritionists who do not have a wide experience of different emergency situations and the complex array of issues which must frequently be considered in determining whether to implement an emergency SFP and how such a programme might be designed.
