Outcome Analysis Report Update – Nigeria – March 2016

The analysis indicate that the worst affected group is the very poor households in MCG (Jigawa state) and MCS (Bauchi state) LZs who are facing 15% and 14% survival protection deficits respectively, this means that these households would not be able to access basic food and non-food needs to sustain their survival hence an intervention is needed to save lives of both children and adults within these zones.

In all the Livelihood zones, the very poor households face livelihood protection deficit and this means that theses household would not be able to maintain local livelihood needs such as access to routine medicine, school fees, clothing, and agricultural inputs like seed grains, vet drugs for livestock, etc. and would need assistance to be able to meet these livelihood needs to prevent negative coping strategies. Overall, regarding CH classification and based on HEA indicators, MCG and MCS livelihood zones in Jigawa and Bauchi States respectively are facing food crisis (Phase 3), while other livelihood zones (CGC, HVM, MAS, SCG, and MSC) are in Stress ( Phase 2) The result of this analysis shows that the deteriorating food security situation is not only within the north eastern part of Nigeria like Borno, Yobe etc. But also within households living in both the north west and north central part of Nigeria as shown by the analysis