SQUEAC Report, Panyijiar County, Unity State,2015

The Republic of South Sudan is an independent country since 2011. The country is divided into three regions and ten states. Unity is one of the ten states in South Sudan and Panyijiar County is one of the ten counties in Unity state spanning an area of 38,837 km² and inhabited primarily by the Nuer ethnic group. International Rescue Committee (IRC) has been providing health services in Panyijiar County for the last 20 years. The health services include integrated community case management (iCCM) and community based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM). IRC invited the Coverage Monitoring Network (CMN), to conduct assessment to their CMAM programme and to train and build the capacity of their nutrition team on the Semi-Quantitative Evaluation of Access and Coverage (SQUEAC) methodology. The assessment used a three stage SQUEAC methodology i) collecting and analysing 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).