An Assessment of Food and Livelihood Security in Port-au-Prince
The Port-au-Prince urban livelihoods baseline contains detailed, quantified information on the food, income and expenditure patterns of the urban poor. The assessment was conducted at a time of relative security and price stability from April to May 2009. Thus this baseline provides a picture of the urban poor as they were following the hurricanes, price rises and food riots of 2008. In conjunction with monitoring data, the baseline is a powerful tool that can be used for ongoing analysis of food and livelihood security in the slums of Port-au-Prince. It can also be used to assess the appropriateness of interventions aimed at alleviating urban poverty. Undertaken by FEWS NET in collaboration with CNSA, this survey employed the Household Economy Approach (HEA). Since the focus of the survey was the urban poor, the assessment took place only in the city’s shanty-towns, known as bidonvilles. Three teams of interviewers undertook 30 interviews with community key informants and 110 focus group interviews with representatives of households from the slums. During the focus groups a total of around 500 households were surveyed.
Resource collections
- Earthquakes
- Learning from crises (Natural hazards)
- 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