Findings of Sierra Leone. January 2020 Food Security Monitoring

Rome (Italy); WFP/FAO, 2020.

English

Timely provision of food security and monitoring data is critical to tracking Sierra Leone’s progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger. To provide accurate food and nutrition security data, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS), Statistics Sierra Leone (Stats SL), the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Food Security Working Group (FSWG) partners are collaborating to strengthen the Food Security Monitoring System (FSMS) aspect of the national Early Warning System (EWS). The FSMS is implemented twice per year, once in the immediate post-harvest period (January – February) and again during the height of the “lean season” (August – September) - when access to and availability of food is reduced - in order to effectively monitor food security levels in Sierra Leone, better understand their dynamics and compare the situation with other West African countries through the Cadre Harmonisé.

ELR 2572

MON-129433