Key takeways

• The findings from the HSM showed concerning food consumption deficits and limited diversity of diets in the inaccessible areas surveyed. About 45.6 percent of the surveyed households struggled to have sufficient food intake and nearly 68.5 percent experienced a crisis or higher levels (CH Phase 3 and above) of food deprivation and hunger, further evidenced in the pervasive use of food-based coping strategies;
• 37.1 percent of the households relied on crisis coping strategies to meet their food needs, which heightens economic vulnerability due to the negative impact on the future productivity of the most affected households;
• The levels of acute malnutrition among new arrivals from the inaccessible areas are serious (Phase 4 IPC Acute Malnutrition Classification) with the overall Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) rates of 20.9 percent and Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) at 8.2 percent. The high levels of acute malnutrition indicate an extremely stressed population in relation to food insecurity, poor water, and sanitation access, and poor health conditions as the key underlying causes of acute malnutrition.