SLEAC and SQUEAC Reports, Karamoja Region, January and February 2015

Karamoja sub-region is a semi-arid area of northern Uganda that borders Kenya and Sudan. A number of nutritional surveys have been conducted in recent years, figures from 2013 indicate that prevalence of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) was 3.5% and Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) was 11%.

Over the past 5 years, UNICEF has scaled up its IMAM program from 33 centres to supporting 103 treatment centres, reaching around 10,000-11,500 cases annually. The World Food Program (WFP) is supporting 150 Community Based Supplementary Feeding Programs, extending their assistance to over 100,000 individuals. Coverage assessments were conducted by ACF-UK in the Karamoja region from January to March 2015, in conjunction with UNICEF, WFP and MoH.