RWANDA - Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis and Nutrition Survey 2012
Reference ID
RWA-NISR-CFSVANS-2012-v1
Year
2012
Country
RWANDA
Producer(s)
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda - Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning
Sponsor(s)
World Food Programme - WFP - Financial support World Vision Rwanda - WVR - Financial support ONE UN - ONE UN - Financial support The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Gates) - - Financial support Swiss Agency for Development and Coop
Metadata
Documentation in PDF
Last modified
May 25, 2016
Documentation
Download the questionnaires, technical documents and reports that describe the survey process and the key results for this study.
Questionnaires
Rwanda Comprehensive Food Security and vulnerability Analysis and Nutrition Survey 2012-Village Informant Questionnaire
Author(s)
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, World Food Program and Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
Date
2014-01-01
Country
Rwanda
Language
English
Publisher(s)
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, World Food Program and Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
Description
This is community questionnaire for the survey.
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q-cfsvans-2012-community-eng.pdf
Rwanda Comprehensive Food Security and vulnerability Analysis and Nutrition Survey 2012-Household Questionnaire
Author(s)
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, World Food Program and Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
Date
2014-01-01
Publisher(s)
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, World Food Program and Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
Description
This is household questionnaire for the survey.
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q-cfsvans-2012-household-eng.pdf
Rwanda Comprehensive Food Security and vulnerability Analysis and Nutrition Survey 2012-mother-and-child-nutrition-Questionnaire
Author(s)
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, World Food Program and Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
Date
2014-01-01
Country
Rwanda
Language
English
Contributor(s)
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, World Food Program and Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
Publisher(s)
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, World Food Program and Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
Description
This is woman and child nutrition questionnaire for the survey.
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q-cfsvans-2012-woman-and-child-nutrition-eng.pdf
Reports
Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis and Nutrition Survey 2012 Final Report
Author(s)
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, World Food Program and Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
Date
2012-10-01
Country
Rwanda
Language
English
Publisher(s)
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, World Food Program and Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
Description
This is the final report for the survey.
Table of contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Figures, Tables, Boxes and Maps ........................................................................... ii
Acronyms and Abbreviations ............................................................................................ v
Foreword ...................................................................................................................... viii
Acknowledgements .......................................................................................................... x
Key findings ..................................................................................................................... 2
1 Introduction ............................................................................................................ 4
1.1 Rwanda's impressive accomplishements .................................................................. 4
1.2 Poverty and inequality persist ................................................................................ 4
1.3 Outlook and reasons for this assessment................................................................. 5
2 Study objectives and methodology .......................................................................... 6
2.1 Key objectives of the assessment ........................................................................... 6
2.2 Conceptual framework and definitions..................................................................... 6
2.3 Methodology ........................................................................................................ 7
2.4 Study limitations .................................................................................................. 9
3 The state of food security and nutrition in Rwanda in 2012 ................................... 11
3.1 Increasing food availability .................................................................................. 11
3.2 Markets are generally efficient and fair ................................................................. 18
3.3 Half of households have difficulty accessing food .................................................... 29
3.4 Almost four in five households had acceptable food consumption in March/April 2012 . 30
3.5 Acceptable levels of acute malnutrition but still alarmingly high rates of chronic malnutrition for children under five .......... 37
3.6 Women's nutritional status .................................................................................. 38
4 Understanding the issues behind poor food consumption and chronic malnutrition in Rwanda .............. 40
4.1 What are the individual factors that determine child stunting? ................................. 42
4.2 What households are food insecure or have stunted children? .................................. 46
4.3 Where do the food insecure households and the malnourished children live? ............. 62
5 How shocks impact food security .......................................................................... 78
5.1 Risk and vulnerability approach ............................................................................ 78
5.2 Main shocks ....................................................................................................... 79
5.3 Resilience and capacity to cope with shocks ........................................................... 82
5.4 Rainfall deficit and erratic rainfall ......................................................................... 85
5.5 Floods ............................................................................................................... 88
5.6 Increases in staple food prices ............................................................................. 89
6 What is being done? key tools and mechanisms in place to address poverty, malnutrition and food insecurity in Rwanda 92
6.1 Assistance received ............................................................................................ 92
6.2 Government led social protection ......................................................................... 96
6.3 Livelihoods, agriculture and livestock support ........................................................ 99
6.4 Education support ............................................................................................ 101
6.5 Multisectoral strategy to eliminate malnutrition .................................................... 101
6.6 Health ............................................................................................................ 101
6.7 Food assistance ............................................................................................... 102
7 The way forward to tackle food insecurity and malnutrition ................................ 103
7.1 Conclusion ...................................................................................................... 103
7.2 Recommendations ............................................................................................ 105
Annexes (included in the CD-ROM) .............................................................................. 108
Download
cfsvans-2012-final-report-v01.pdf
Author(s)
World Food Program
Date
2012-07-01
Country
Rwanda
Language
English
Publisher(s)
World Food Program
Description
These are references used in the final report writing.
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cfsvans-2012-references.xls
Technical documents
Detailed Methodology for Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis & Nutrition Survey 2012
Author(s)
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, World Food Program and Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
Date
2012-01-01
Country
Rwanda
Language
English
Publisher(s)
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, World Food Program and Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
Description
This is detailed methodology for the survey.
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cfsvans-2012-detailed-methodology-eng.pdf
Author(s)
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, World Food Program and Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
Date
2012-10-01
Country
Rwanda
Language
English
Publisher(s)
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, World Food Program and Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
Description
The document describes the survey regression analysis
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cfsvans-2012-regression-analysis-eng.pdf
Water Requirements satisfaction index Methodology
Author(s)
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, World Food Program and Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
Date
2012-05-01
Country
Rwanda
Language
Faroese
Publisher(s)
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, World Food Program and Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
Description
The document describes the methodology used for water requirements satisfaction index
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cfsvans-2012-water-requirements-satissfaction-index-methodology-eng.pdf
Definitions and Computation of Main Indicators
Author(s)
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, World Food Program and Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
Date
2012-05-01
Country
Rwanda
Language
English
Contributor(s)
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, World Food Program and Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
Publisher(s)
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, World Food Program and Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
Description
The document describes the definitaions and computation of main indicators in the final report.
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cfsvans-2012-eng-definitions-and- computation-of main- indicators.pdf
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