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NUTRITION <strong>SURVEY</strong> SUMMARY REPORT FOR AWEIL EAST COUNTY Date of the survey: 4 th –7 th June 2001 BAHR-EL GHAZAL REGION – JUNE 2001 Area of the coverage: Eight payams: Madhol , Mangok , Malualbai, Yargot, Baac, Wunlang , Korok , Mangar tong. Methodology: Two –stage cluster sampling method (30 clusters of 30 children). Semi structured interview schedules were used to collect the data and all the enumerators and team leaders attended the half day training session prior to the survey. Targeted Group: Children 6-59 months in age (65-115 cm in height) Sample size: 895 Children Objectives • To assess the nutritional status of children aged between 6-59 Months in Aweil East County Bahrel Ghazal region. • To determine the various food sources used during the current hunger gap period. • To estimate the proportion of displaced persons that have arrived within the community over the last 7 months and to estimate their nutritional status. RESULTS INDICATOR Population assessed: 936 Population analysed: 895 Total number of households analysed: 565 Nutritional status of children between 6-59 months Global acute malnutrition rate (
MALNUTRITION RATES PER PAYAM Payam No. of children assessed Proportion malnourished Madhol 30 46.7% Mangok 30 33.3% Malualbai 33 27.3% Yargot 90 38.8% Baac 121 32.2% Wunlang 173 28.9% Korok 185 24.8% Mangar-Tong 233 24.0% FOOD SOURCE Propotion of dependency WFP 63.6% Trade 13.7% Wild plants and indigenous foods 77.6% Cultivation 21.8% Kinship sharing 14.7% Livestock 6.0% Population movements Percentage of displaced persons 16.6% Percentage of returnees 6.7% Percentage of residents 76.7% Discussion The survey was carried out in the hunger gap period – a time characterised by increased starvation as a result of the low food baskets available to the population, which has been compounded by continued insecurity which has affected the planting season. The situation was further aggravated by the poor previous harvest due to insufficient rains. The results indicate a very high global acute malnutrition rate of 28.9% z scores (CI 95% 24.9% - 32.9%). Comparing these levels with the last survey in March 2001 which recorded a malnutrition rate of 15.5% (z scores) the situation is evidently becoming more alarming and may reach crisis conditions should insecurity cause large scale displacement into the region. Tearfund recorded a global acute level of 36.2% (z scores) and 12.1% severe in Aweil East during the height of the 1998 famine. A severe malnutrition rate of 5.5% (z scores) was recorded in this present survey. This figure has increased from the last recorded levels of 1.8% (z scores) in March mainly as a result of the now empty food baskets at the household level (buried food has now been dug up and eaten). It is also important to note that the children in the age bracket of 6-24 months are again the most affected category primarily as a result of weaning practices. These figures portray a serious condition at this stage of the hunger gap with over two months to go before the advent of the first ground nut harvest. The results also indicate that most of the population (77.6%) depend on indigenous foods and wild plants as their main source of food. A relatively high percentage (63.6%) of the people also rely on the WFP general ration. The remaining 36.4% of the population does not have access to this intervention and can be said to be insecure in terms of food security and as a result stand a higher risk of a rapid deterioration in their nutritional status. 3
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