April 2022 Follow up Integrated Food security Nutrition and Mortality Assessments: Nutrition and Mortality Results, 17 May 2022

Primary Objectives:

• Assess the prevalence of (acute) malnutrition amongst children aged 6 -59 months (magnitude & Distribution)

• Determine retrospective Crude Death Rate (CDR) and Under-Five Death Rate (U5DR) based on recall period.
  Secondary objectives:

• Determine morbidity rate among children aged 6 – 59 months

• Estimate coverage with measles vaccination and Vitamin A supplementation

• Assess water and sanitation, household food security factors that may contribute to malnutrition in children.

Methodology:

• A two-stage probability proportionate to size (PPS) cluster sampling protocol, based on Standardized Monitoring and assessment of Relief and Transitions (SMART) Methodology was used.

• Retrospective mortality data for 93 days recall period prior to the assessments was also collected among all sampled IDPs,
  Urban and Rural households respectively.