Overview
Abstract
As significant progress continues to be made by the Rwandan economy following various recovery and growth strategies, certain elements remain crucial. The food and nutrition security of the population remains a key building block in not only consolidating the gains already made thus far but also further accelerating the rate of growth towards the realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The 2009 national Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA) and Nutrition survey was undertaken with the objective of analyzing trends over time in comparison with the 2006 CFSVA and the 2005 RDHS as well as with other more recent secondary data, measuring the extent and depth of food and nutrition insecurity and vulnerability, and identifying the underlying causes. The five key questions to a CFSVA and/or Nutrition Survey are: who are the people currently facing food insecurity and malnutrition; how many are they; where do they live; why are they food insecure and/or malnourished and; how can food assistance and other interventions make a difference in reducing poverty, hunger and supporting livelihoods? In order to provide answers to these questions, specifically, the assessment sought to:
-Identify geographic and socio-economic groups that are food insecure or vulnerable to food insecurity;
-highlight the nature and causes of food insecurity among each group;
-Identify the major risks and constraints to improving food security;
-Evaluate assistance needs at the short, medium and long range;
- Support the development of an appropriate targeting system;
- Better define the role of GoR’s development partners including WFP in promoting food security strengthening programs;
- Determine the prevalence of nutritional status of vulnerable groups (children aged 6 - 59 months and non-pregnant women of reproductive age (15-49 years old);
-Determine the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding as a key Infant and Young Child Feeding strategy;
-Establish the linkage between household food security and nutritional status of children in Rwanda.
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Units of Analysis
Household and community level data.
The 2009 CFSVA & NS has collected indicators on human and social capital, natural capital, physical capital, economic capital and livelihood strategies, food consumption , and health and nutrition. In addition, the CFSVA & NS has integrated a risk and vulnerability context module thus determining the most commonly experienced shocks by the sampled households at the district level.
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