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DEFINING A 'BASELINE', THE COMPREHENSIVE VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS
(CVA)
The CVA 'baseline' analysis aims at providing an accurate
understanding of chronic food insecurity and vulnerability conditions,
and how best to respond to them.
The Comprehensive Vulnerability Analysis (CVA) is a series
of assessments that lead to a systematic identification
and assessment of chronic food
security / vulnerability conditions of populations or areas
in any given country.
The CVA's two key functions are to:
- target WFP development programme activities at the hungry
poor who most need them;
- provide an authoritative review of the state and dynamics
of food insecurity and vulnerability, which will serve as a
basis for other assessments.
For this reason, the CVA should be carried out before any other
VAM analyses.
The key 'technical' output of the CVA is a targeting and characterisation
of food insecurity/vulnerability issues in a country.
The process starts by geographically locating the most vulnerable
areas and socio-economic groups in a country.
It then goes on to describe the types of food security/vulnerability
issues which normally affect these people and places, including
when and how much.
The CVA next describes the types of households which are most
at risk - why, when, to what degree - before asking how best to
address their food security/vulnerability problems.
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Vulnerability Analysis: data sources |
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general, CVA's analyse both: |
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Secondary
data - existing data, statistics, information, and survey
data from non-WFP sources |
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Primary data
- new data and information that WFP collects from, and even
analyses with, the hungry poor themselves |
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