Cost of Diet Assessment Katsina – Nigeria – November 2010

This Cost of Diet assessment would not have been possible without the contribution of many people. I especially want to thank the people in the participating villages for making time to answer patiently all our questions, even while so much of the information asked for was considered ‘urban stuff, not relevant for the people in the villages.

My special thanks and much appreciation goes to Garba Noura, who helped with the training and supervised one of the teams during the data collection. Without him the data collection would have taken much more time, and would not have been of the same quality. I also would like to thank Save the Children Nigeria, and especially the whole Katsina team, who made me feel at home in Katsina, and assisted in so many ways to make my visit memorable and the assessment go smoothly. Save the Children’s partner organisations KTARDA (IFAD), the State Ministry of Health of Katsina, Service for Humanity, HMIS Katsina: thanks for releasing staff for such a long period, to conduct both a Household Economic Approach, and the Cost of Diet assessment! I hope the experience is useful in your work and that the great collaboration will continue.