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In response to a need for sustainable and predictable ways of addressing hunger and vulnerability, national Vulnerability Assessment Committees (NVACs) are being asked to produce more in-depth information on chronic and acute vulnerability at the sub-national level. At present most VAA systems (including the NVACs) remain largely donor driven and donor funded.
RHVP is providing support to strengthening VAA through three channels, namely:
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The provision of a long-term regionally-based VAA adviser;
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The funding of components of SADCs ‘Five Year Programme to Support and Strengthen VAA’ through financing of regional-level initiatives;
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The provision of funding to improve the capacity of VAA systems to carry out more in-depth analysis on chronic vulnerability.
Components of a VAA system
Affordable VAA systems need to be able to answer five key questions, which provide the basis for the design of interventions and the evaluation of their impact:
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Who is vulnerable?
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Where are they located?
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Why are they vulnerable?
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What types of interventions would work best?
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How have these interventions helped?
In this regard, RHVP is supporting a number of activities that contribute to enhancing these core capacities.
Information on the progress of VAA-related activities will be posted regularly on this website and in our newsletter, wahenga.news.
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