Galkayo Urban Baseline Report / Profile is published

Issued: October 7, 2010

From October to November 2009, FSNAU conducted its first baseline livelihood assessment of Galkayo town, including an assessment of IDPs. The main objectives were: to classify and document Galkayo’s urban livelihood system; identify risk factors or hazards and the population’s ability to cope with the shock; to improve the food security monitoring in Galkayo; and inform recovery and development programming and policy. This study applies FSNAU’s expanded Baseline Livelihood Analysis framework for analysis, which draws on the Household Economy Approach (HEA) for understand the household level economy, the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) for understanding livelihoods, in addition to market analysis for contextualizing and crosschecking livelihood information. The assessment period was from the 26th of October to the 11th of November, 2009. There were a total of 16 key informant interviews and 51 wealth group interviews in the town; as well as 10 key informant interviews and 21 wealth group interviews in IDP camps. The reference year for the baseline study was determined to be October 2008 to September 2009 because this was the most recent full consumption year, making recall of events easier for those surveyed. To read more on the main findings of the study, download the full report (PDF, 6.61MB) and/or the profile (PDF, 2.92MB).