Assessments

IOM Launches Report Highlighting Psychosocial Needs in South Sudan South Sudan - IOM has issued a report on psychosocial needs and resources in South Sudan, highlighting serious protection and mental health concerns in a country that has…

1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background information Livelihood baseline assessments are important in understanding household access to food and income as well as expenditure patterns (Chambers and Conway, 1992). Baseline assessments use participatory rapid survey techniques to gather data and…

Mission Highlights • Following improved security conditions, pastoralists have returned to the pre-protected kraal system seasonal grazing patterns, being free to carry-out traditional management practices inherent to the right to roam, with consequent better access to pasture…

Executive summary Scope of the October-December, 2013 short rains assessment Food production is largely rainfall dependent in Kenya, making the assessments of the performance of the bimodal nature of rainfall on crops and livestock important. Basically, Kenya can be separated…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The 2012/13 comprehensive food security assessment was conducted in December 2012. The primary objectives of the assessment are to update food security and vulnerability situation of the Darfur population, to assess risk factors for food insecurity and…

Introduction On 9 May 2013, the Somalia Ministry of Health reported the first confirmed case of type 1 wild poliovirus (WPV1) in a 32-month old girl from Mogadishu with onset of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) on 18…