Abyan Assessment Report 8-9 July 2012

2.4 Training

Prior to the assessment, two training sessions were conducted by OCHA in relation to MIRA (methodology and practical procedures to conduct and ask questions). To pre-test the MIRA questionnaires (Annex A) and assess the performance of the teams, the questionnaires were piloted in three schools that harbored IDPs.

Pre-field activities included the production of a Training Manual for Community Level Assessment teams, a Descriptive Analysis Plan for coding, area and community mapping, and holding a workshop for participating team members. Training was also conducted on mines and unexploded ordinances (UXOs) awareness considering that the assessment was to be carried out in areas with mines and bobby traps.

The pre-crisis population of Abyan governorate was 454, 535 (Ministry of Health, 2006). During field activity, teams visited in all, twelve (12) targeted locations throughout two (2) districts during the period of 8 and 9 July 2012 (Figure 1). The population of Khanfar district and Zingibar are 133, 278 and 32, 380 respectively. The estimated population of the assessed communities range from 5,000 to 96,000 with an average of 34,409 people. The population estimates thus show quite a significant number of people in each of the locations.

Table 2 shows the locations and number of questionnaires administered per module and per location.