RAPID FOLLOW UP FOOD SECURITY ASSESSMENTFlood and Water Logging Affected Areas of Satkhira and Jessore

Outline of Presentation

Methodology and field work process Lessons learnt and Recommendation

Key Findings Food Availability: Local Agriculture

Dynamics Food Accessibility: Income and other issues Food Utilization: WaSH, Under Nutrition and

other issues Coping Strategies and Priority Needs Overall Need in the Area

Applied tools and lessons learned

Methodology

Tools used

Lessons learned and recommendations Checklists required more contextualization Field practice was required for the

enumerators Group formation and relative representation

of the communities More preparatory work for UzDMC and

UDMC consultation meeting is required Preparing questionnaire bank for each of

the dimensions of Food Security Organizing a core expert team from TWG

members to do this Field practice of the enumerator

Local agricultural dynamics

Food Availability

Boro- ‘average yield’ with low price

•Per acre profit is only 4577 tk.

•Average yield/acre is almost same

as last years

•Price has decrease almost 27%

comparing last year.

•How much a marginal farmer (less

then 1.5 acre) can reinvest?

Limited crop diversification

Other crops

No Maize and Mungbean. Only in 29 % of the communities usually

cultivates other pulses and oil seeds. Prospect seems to be moderate to normal.

Only in 21% of the communities reported to cultivate betel leaf the production prospect is either limited or moderate quantity.

Only 10% of the communities reported to have plan for summer vegetables with a low potential.

Cramped Investment Sources

If MFI is the major source, can the interest rate be

suitable?

Shrimp/fish gher•Only 7% area is likely to

have a >50% production.

•Livestock recovery status

is very poor.

•Employment impact?

Income, livelihoods and other issues

Food Accessibility

Major livelihoods status

Key constraints in reviving livelihoods

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Lack of financial resources

Alternative opportunities?

Child and female labour increased- persisting low wage

•71% of the communities sent children

to earn money

•Average wage is only 50-75 Tk./day

•Involvement in extremely hazardous

work

•In all the communities women started

to work to support the HH

•Average wage is only 40-90 Tk./day

Major expenditure sectors

Consumption, under-nutrition, WaSH and other issues

Food Utilization

Meal frequency- sign of overall improvement

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Meal sufficiency-in terms of rice consumption

Food Consumption Score

Diet diversity over 7 days

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Access to water gone back to normal

Defecation point trend: mostly recovered, yet risk persists

Health risk?

•OD along with child

feces disposal is a critical health threat to the overall well being of the

communities.

What is going on with diseases?

Rapid Market Survey

ToT and Market

Basic staples

ToT and Wage

Coping strategies

Priority needs

Community preferred interventions

Geographical position

Population in Needs

Maps been produced considering 3 criteria;1.Priority ranking by the UzDMC and UDMC members2.Filtering with last boro production3.Further filtering with aman potential.

People in need?

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