Abyan Assessment Report 8-9 July 2012

Locations	Geography
OTHER SERIOUS PROBLEMS: Are there any other serious problems in the community assessed which I have not been listed above?
1	Al-Husn	Rural	Concerns about reconstruction of their destroyed houses, Mines, The basic services such electricity , water and infrastructure
2	Al-Jool	Rural
3	Al-Kud	Rural	Collective water tanks - Providing tent - Mines awareness - Disability which affect youth income
4	Al-Makhzan	Rural	Farmers are facing problems with irrigating their lands
5	Al-Musemir	Rural	Shortage of medicine
6	Al-Rowah	Rural	Security ,Sanitation ,Unemployment , Telecommunications
7	Amodiah	Rural	Mines and UXOs
8	Allohom	Urban	Water network, farmers using drink water for irrigation, and security problems
9	Al-Mehraq	Urban
10	Batis	Urban	Increase of Prices, Sanitation, Lack of telecommunication
11	Qaderallah	Urban	Poverty is a serious problem in their community Eg: the families consist of 10 members and they are all earning 28,000 YR used for rent (7000yer) and food

3.2.10 Findings of SMART Survey in Lahj governorates

A two-stage cluster sampling methodology using probability proportional to size, 40 and 36 cluster were selected for the Lowland and Mountainous surveys, respectively. Data collection continued from 30th June until 14th July of 2012 in two phases- Lowland zone in the 1st phase and Mountainous zone in the 2nd phase. A total of 1571 children (803 from Lowland and 768 from Mountainous zones) aged 6-59 months from 1504 households (799 from Lowland; and 705 from Mountainous zones) were assessed.

Results revealed a global acute malnutrition (GAM) rate of 23% exceeding the emergency threshold of 15%, and severe acute malnutrition (SAM) rate of 4.5% in the lowland ecological zone. While the GAM rate was 14.3% and SAM rate 2.8% in the mountainous zone which classify the situation as serious according to WHO classification. The results indicate critical nutrition levels in lowland and serious nutrition levels in the mountainous zone, according to WHO severity classification.