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Key messages for decision makers
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The distribution of food assistance has impacted positively on beneficiaries in Monguno leading to a decrease in the proportion of households with poor food consumption from 44% at baseline to 5% in February 2017.
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On average, households with acceptable food consumption consumed cereals for 7 days, pulses for 4 days, vegetable for 7 days and meat for 2 days, with the consumption of sugar and oil improving to 4 and 7 days from 2 and 6 days respectively compared to the baseline.
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The proportion of poor food consumption households is higher for households that consumed one meal per day (34%).
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In spite of the substantial decrease in the proportion of households with poor food consumption as compared to the baseline, the use of coping strategies remain high among all households.
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There has been an improvement in the global acute malnutrition rate based on a rapid MUAC screening of children 6-59 months; about 6.24% in January 2017 compared to 27.3% findings of the August 2016 rapid assessment.
Introduction
According to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, more than 146 people have been killed by Boko Haram insurgents in Mungono and its surrounding communities since the beginning of 2015 and this has forced many residents to seek refuge in the safety of displaced persons camps in Maiduguri.
The round 14 of the Displacement Tracking matrix (DTM) revealed that a total of 46,813 individuals moved from communities in the Monguno, notably, Soye, Kumshe, Gulumba and Walasa to safer places in Bama and Banki towns.
The tense security situation associated with the ongoing violence continue to disrupt the livelihoods of the local population as well as the functioning of markets.
A second round of Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) was conducted to Monguno from the 19th to the 25th of February 2017 and a total of 988 tons of food items were distributed to 96,402 beneficiaries in three IDP camp and the host community. A total of 66.505 tons of the food items was plumpy sup meant to support Blanket Supplementary Feeding in the three camps. Nutrition screening was conducted for 13,267 children aged 6-59 months in order to determine the prevalence of acute malnutrition.