Swaziland - Annual Vulnerability Assessment & Analysis, July 2016

The Annual assessment’s objectives mainly was to understand the status of livelihood sources in the rural and urban areas, thus to determine levels of food insecurity amongst populations, estimating vulnerable populations facing food insecurity and establish forms of coping mechanisms adopted during periods of food insecurity. The outputs from the assessment were further used to inform the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), as direct and indirect evidence. The IPC Analytical Framework was used to further classify rural populations into Phases.