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Executive Summary................................................................................................... 1
Part I – Background, Objectives and Methodology .................................................... 8
Section 1.1 - Background .............................................................................................8
Section 1.2 - Objectives ............................................................................................... 12
Section 1.2.1 – Overall Objectives ............................................................................... 12
Section 1.2.2 – Objectives: Farm Production Survey....................................................... 12
Section 1.2.3 –Objectives: Food Security and Vulnerability Assessment............................. 12
Section 1.3 – Sampling .............................................................................................. 12
Section 1.4 – Survey Instruments................................................................................ 13
Section 1.4.1 – Survey Instruments: Overview.............................................................. 13
Section 1.4.2 – Survey Instruments: Community Questionnaire ....................................... 14
Section 1.4.3 – Survey Instruments: Household Food Security......................................... 14
Section 1.4.4 – Survey Instruments: Household crop production, livestock and fisheries...... 14
Section 1.4.4 – Survey Instruments: Women and child nutriton and health........................ 15
Section 1.5 – Organizational aspects ............................................................................ 15
Part II – District Level Results .................................................................................16
Section 2.1 – Kailahun District .................................................................................... 16
Section 2.2 – Kenema District ..................................................................................... 18
Section 2.3 – Kono District ......................................................................................... 21
Section 2.4 – Bombali District ..................................................................................... 23
Section 2.5 – Kambia District ...................................................................................... 25
Section 2.6 – Koinadugu District .................................................................................. 27
Section 2.7 – Port Loko District ................................................................................... 29
Section 2.8 – Tonkolili District ..................................................................................... 31
Section 2.9 – Bo District ............................................................................................ 33
Section 2.10 –Bonthe District ...................................................................................... 35
Section 2.11 –Moyamba District .................................................................................. 37
Section 2.12 –Pujehun District .................................................................................... 39
Section 2.13 –Western Rural District ............................................................................ 41
Part III – Community summaries .............................................................................43
Section 3.1 – Community and household size ................................................................ 43
Section 3.2 – Population changes................................................................................. 43
Section 3.3 – Migration .............................................................................................. 43
Section 3.4 – Quality of life......................................................................................... 44
Section 3.5 – Economic activities ................................................................................. 44
Section 3.6 – Markets ................................................................................................ 45
Section 3.6.1 – Availability of food in markets ............................................................... 45
Section 3.6.2 – Seasonality......................................................................................... 46
Section 3.7 – Education.............................................................................................. 47
Section 3.8 – Health .................................................................................................. 47
Section 3.9 – Agriculture ............................................................................................ 48
Section 3.10 – Accessability to the community............................................................... 48
Part IV – Household Results.....................................................................................50
Section 4.1 – Household Demographics ........................................................................ 50
Section 4.2 – Housing and housing conditions................................................................ 51
Section 4.3 – Water and Sanitation .............................................................................. 51
Section 4.4 – Household asset ownership...................................................................... 52
Section 4.5 – Livestock ownership ............................................................................... 52
Section 4.6 – Agriculture ............................................................................................ 52
Section 4.7 – Access to land ....................................................................................... 55
Section 4.8 – Sources of seeds .................................................................................... 55
Section 4.9 – Access to agricultural labor ...................................................................... 57
Section 4.10 – Access to tools / implements .................................................................. 57
Section 4.11 – Access to agricultural / productive assets ................................................. 57
Section 4.12 – Agricultural credit and access to tractors.................................................. 58
Section 4.13 – Monthly expenditure ............................................................................. 58
Section 4.14 – Income and livlihood strategies .............................................................. 60
Section 4.15 – Meal consumption................................................................................. 62
Section 4.16 – Household risks, shortfalls and coping strategies....................................... 62
Part V – Women and child nutrition and health ........................................................66
Section 5.1 – Maternal health and nutrition ................................................................... 66
Section 5.3 – Child nutrition and health ........................................................................ 70
Part VI – Household food consumption profiling ......................................................73
Section 6.1 – Food Access: frequency of consumption and dietary diversity ....................... 73
Section 6.2 – Household food consumption groups ......................................................... 74
Section 6.3 – Expenditure analyses.............................................................................. 78
Section 6.4 – Geographic distribution of housheold food consumption groups ..................... 78
Section 6.5 – Creating District-level Food security typologies ........................................... 79
Part VII – Conclusions and Recommendations .........................................................80
Section 7.1 – Food production ..................................................................................... 80
Section 7.2 – Food access........................................................................................... 81
Section 7.3 – Food utilization ...................................................................................... 81
Section 7.4 – Household food security profiling .............................................................. 81
Section 7.5 – Food Aid Initiatives................................................................................. 82
Section 7.6 – Recommendations.................................................................................. 83
Annex I Data tables for household survey .................................................................... 85
Annex II Data tables for Health and Nutrition ............................................................... 99
Annex III Additional Maps |
