Over the past months, WFP DRC has been conducting assessments on high prices and their impact on urban dwellers in the following cities around the country: Kinshasa, Matadi, Mbandaka, Kisangani, Goma, Bukavu, Lubumbashi and Kananga. The main objective of the study was to better understand the impact of prices on poor households in the selected cities. More specifically the assessment aims at: 1. Determining the evidence of high food prices as well as its magnitude; 2. The causes of the high prices; 3. The impact on the natural, human, financial and social capital; 4. The impact on different socio-economic groups and specific areas of the cities; 5. Identify potential areas of intervention for WFP and partners.
Resource collections
- Evaluating humanitarian action
- Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
- Monitoring of humanitarian action
- Topics
- UN Habitat - Urban Response Collection
- Urban Response - Urban Crisis Preparedness and Risk Reduction
- Urban Response Collection - Community Engagement and Social Cohesion
- Urban Response Collection - Economic Recovery
- Urban Response Collection - Environment and Climate Change
- Urban Response Collection - Housing, Land and Property
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Crisis Response, Recovery and Reconstruction
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Resilience
- Use of evaluation evidence