This is the first of two rapid assessment reports in support of Action Against Hunger’s Multisectoral humanitarian response to the deteriorating nutrition situation focusing on severely affected crisis contexts in sub-Saharan Africa. With reference to crisis-affected populations in seven countries (South Sudan, Mali, Somalia, Ethiopia, Uganda , Niger and Sudan), this project aims to: improve nutritional status; increase access to water, sanitation and hygiene services (WASH) and improve WASH practices; increase access to and use of essential health services at primary healthcare centres; and increase the use of malnutrition prevention and treatment services in women of reproductive age and young children.

It also aims to generate evidence to better shape and scale up humanitarian approaches tackling the impacts of layered crises, while making concrete recommendations, based on community preferences and capacities, of what types of interventions are needed to reduce the loss of livelihoods, and thereby food and nutrition insecurity, in the face of conflict and climate shocks.

Report by the Overseas Development Institute