SQUEAC report, Dadaab / Hagadera refugee camp, 2015

The Dadaab refugee camp is located approximately 500 km from Nairobi and 80 kilometers from the Kenya- Somalia border. The camp was established in 1991/92 to cater to the influx of refugees from Somalia fleeing from civil war. The camp has five main refugee camps i.e. Hagadera, Dagahaley, Ifo, Ifo2 and Kambioos, which cover a total area of approximately 50 sq. km within an 18 km radius of Dadaab Town. To accommodate the influx and reduce congestion, two more sites Ifo extension and Kambioos were allocated, bringing the number of camps to five. At the time of the assessment a total of 353,219 (UNHCR progress data base March 2015) refugees are residing in Dadaab in five different camp sites.

In Dadaab camp with leadership of UNHCR various national and international NGOs provide basic services to refugees includes community base management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) services. UNHCR invited the Coverage Monitoring Network (CMN) to conduct assessment to their CMAM programme in Hagadera camp and to train and build the capacity of nutritional professional of their partner organisation on the Semi-Quantitative Evaluation of Access and Coverage (SQUEAC)1 methodology.

The assessment used a three stage SQUEAC methodology i) collect and analyse the qualitative and quantitative data; ii) develop and test the hypothesis by a Small Area Survey; and iii) conduct a ‘Wide Area Survey’ to estimate the programme coverage rates of Out-patient Therapeutic Programme (OTP) and Targeted Supplementary Feeding Programme (TSFP).