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• Food consumption stabilized from the previous PDM conducted in August and was much improved from baseline in September 2014 – after receiving assistance about 90 percent of assisted households had acceptable food consumption and households with poor food consumption remained very low
• In-kind food assistance was the main source of households’ cereal, legume, oil/fat, sugar, and condiment consumption, corresponding with the WFP food basket. Cash was primarily used to purchase fresh foods such as dairy, protein (meat/fish/eggs), vegetables and fruit
• Average Dietary Diversity, measuring the quality of a household’s diet, stabilized overall and remained high across all transfer modalities (in-kind/voucher/cash) and regions. Beneficiaries on average are eating almost all food groups at least once during the week
• Overall usage of food-based coping strategies has improved after receiving WFP food assistance compared with previous findings
• Livelihood Coping Strategy Index (LCSI), measuring reliance on livelihood-based coping mechanisms to cope with lack of food, remains low. Overall beneficiaries most commonly ‘buy food on credit’ and ‘borrow money to purchase food’
• On average 44 percent of a household’s total expenditure was on food. Food expenditure per capita increased from August across all regions and modalities while non-food expenditure decreased except for in the center/south. A higher proportion spent on food could indicate more stress on the families and could be due to seasonal differences in prices of food.