SQUEAC Report, Kaya Refugee Camp, Maban District, South Sudan, 2015

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the World Food Programme (WFP) has been working together, in partnership with other NGOs, namely IMC, Relief international/CHD, Samaritan’s Purse (SP), Medair etc. to ensure that food security and other related needs (health services, water and sanitation, family planning) of the refugees are adequately addressed. WFP is responsible for the provision of the general food ration while UNHCR and its Implementing Partners provide health services, water and sanitation, shelter, and basic non food items. To address acute malnutrition, Community Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programme is being implanting in all camps by UNHRC partners. Therefore IMC & UNHCR invited the Coverage Monitoring Network (CMN) to conduct assessment to their CMAM programme in Kaya camp and to train and build the capacity of nutritional professionals of their own and of the partner organisations 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).