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Lesotho: SADC Regional Vulnerability Assessment and Analysis Synthesis Report 2016 (August 2016)

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Source: Southern African Development Community
Country: Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe

State of Food Insecurity and Vulnerability in the Southern African Development Community

1. Introduction

1.1 Background

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) and its Member States are committed to addressing food security, poverty and livelihood vulnerability. Most governments in the SADC Region have made consistent use of vulnerability assessment data and information generated by National Vulnerability Assessment Committees (NVACs) and the Regional Vulnerability Assessment Committee (RVAC) for input to policy and programming to address challenges in food security, poverty and vulnerability.

The mandate of the Regional Vulnerability Assessment and Analysis (RVAA) programme is to “strengthen national and regional vulnerability analysis systems in order to inform policy formulation, development programmes and emergency interventions that lead to a reduction in vulnerability”. The Regional Vulnerability Assessment Committee (RVAC) and the NVAC system is more than a data generation mechanism: its intention is to engage and influence policy uptake and implementation, to ensure VAA efforts will achieve the intended impacts.

For more than a decade, the NVACs have been conducting vulnerability assessments in the region. The vulnerability assessments mostly utilize livelihood-based approaches to VAA, which among other things assess the interactions between food production, prices, income, and expenditure patterns to determine households’ response to various stressors to livelihoods.

Each year, the SADC RVAA Programme organises an Annual Dissemination Forum, which begins with a meeting of technicians from the RVAC and NVACs, followed by a meeting of Senior Policy makers to release officially the assessment results. These fora are designed for sharing information on the food security and vulnerability situation in the Region. In the former, the meetings of more technical nature allow NVACs to highlight, review and debate the findings of the vulnerability assessments.
The 2016 Regional Annual Dissemination Technical Forum took place from 6-8 June 2016 at the Sheraton Pretoria Hotel in Pretoria, Republic of South Africa. It was attended by NVACs from all Member States except Mauritius. The Senior Officials meeting of Member States was also held at the same venue from 9-10 June 2016 and was attended by all the 15 Member States. This high-level meeting endorsed the Regional Synthesis Report on the State of Food and Livelihoods Vulnerability in the SADC Region presented in this report.

This report provides an overview of the food security and livelihoods situation in the region for the 2016/17 marketing season/consumption year as discussed at the Dissemination Forum. Chapter one provides the report introduction, the objectives of the Dissemination Forum, and introduces briefly the approaches and methods used in regional VAA. Chapter two presents the regional social economic summary. The chapter builds partly on secondary sources for issues such as malnutrition and HIV/AIDS prevalence, while NVAC data is the basis for information on crop production, cereal prices, and food security trends and livelihood vulnerability. Chapter three presents the main conclusions and recommendations of the Dissemination Forum. Chapter four provides highlights on the situation of individual Member States, while chapter five provides an overview of on-going work critical methodological innovations in the regional Vulnerability Assessment and Analysis (VAA) work presented at the Annual Dissemination Forum.


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