Adapting to an Urban World: Urban Essential Needs Assessment in the Five Communes of Kimbanseke, Kinsenso, Makala, N'sele and Selembao (Kinshasa)

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2018.

English

92 p.

ELR2883

In recent years, the World Food Programme (WFP) has been increasingly operating in urban spaces in order to detect and respond to the limited access to food and other essential needs of the most vulnerable urban inhabitants. Since October 2017, the WFP Country Office in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (VAM) unit of WFP have been working together to design a comprehensive baseline assessment to inform programming and response planning by WFP or partners to any shocks that may occur in vulnerable communes of Kinshasa in the near future. These potential shocks include the effects of political instability which could affect the population’s ability to access food and meet other essential needs. This report presents the results of a vulnerability analysis conducted through a food and essential needs lens. The first four chapters explore the socio-demographic characteristics of urban households, their livelihoods and their current level of vulnerability including monetary poverty, access to essential services and food insecurity. The fifth section provides estimates of how vulnerability could change in the event of instability. Various scenarios are presented with increasing levels of severity, from rumours to turmoil, enabling WFP and partners to have a sense of the consequences of a potential crisis.

Electronic ed.

ELR 2883

eng

MON-129351