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South Sudan

Concern Worldwide: Nutrition and mortality SMART survey, Juba IDP Camp, Central Equatoria state, South Sudan, 7-12 March 2022

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The Integrated Nutrition and Mortality survey was conducted in Juba IDP Camp in Juba County Central Equatoria state of the Republic of South Sudan from 7th -12th March 2022. It was based on the Standardized Monitoring and Assessment of Relief and Transitions (SMART) methodology and was a cross-sectional survey following a two-stage cluster sampling method.

Enumerators and supervisors (22 in total) attended five days training from 28th February to 4 th March 2022 (includes one-day standardization test). The survey employed SMART methodology and was a cross-sectional survey following a two-stage cluster sampling method.

A total of 407 children and 420 households in 35 clusters were planned for the anthropometry and mortality sample. Data were collected from a total of 390 households, 413 children 6-59 months within the 35 clusters (blocks) surveyed.

The anthropometric and mortality data were exported from the Digital Data Gathering (DDG) server to excel and analysed using ENA for SMART, (January 11, 2020 updated version). Other sets of data (vaccination and de-worming status, Vitamin A supplementation, Infant & Young Child Feeding, nutrition status of pregnant women and lactating mothers, general food status as well as water hygiene and sanitation data) were also exported from DDG to excel but analysed using Epi Info version 7.2.