Assessment Report

Needs Assessment for Self-Reliance of CAR refugees in Gado, Borgop, Ngam, Mbile, Lolo and Timangolo Camps, and In Touboro Assessment Report Monitoring & Evaluation department November-December 2017 Page 1 of 30 Contents List of abbreviations ...................................................................................................................................... 3 List of figures ................................................................................................................................................. 4 Key findings/executive summary .................................................................................................................. 5 Operational Context ...................................................................................................................................... 6 Introduction: The CAR situation In Cameroon .............................................................................................. 7 Objectives ..................................................................................................................................................... 8 Methodology ................................................................................................................................................. 9 Study Design ............................................................................................................................................. 9 Qualitative Approach ............................................................................................................................ 9 Quantitative approach ........................................................................................................................ 10 Study sites ............................................................................................................................................... 10 Data Handling and analysis ..................................................................................................................... 10 Limitations .............................................................................................................................................. 10 Assessment findings/Results ...................................................................................................................... 10 Demographic profile of the sample ........................................................................................................ 10 Trends in Self-Reliance and livelihood activities ..................................................................................... 11 Food Security and Food production........................................................................................................ 16 Amount of food available ................................................................................................................... 16 Dietary Diversity .................................................................................................................................. 17 Civil Registration and access to education .............................................................................................. 18 Civil registration and child labor ......................................................................................................... 18 Access to Education ............................................................................................................................ 20 Youth Empowerment .............................................................................................................................. 21 Gender-Based violence ........................................................................................................................... 22 Opportunities and threats to livelihood ................................................................................................. 24 Recommendations ...................................................................................................................................... 29 Success story ............................................................................................................................................... 30 Page 2 of 30 List of abbreviations CAR Central Africa Republic IMC International Medical Corps UNHCR United Nations high Commissioner for Refugees COP Country Operations plan CFS Child Friendly Spaces WGCC Women and Girls Care Center GBV Gender-Based violence CP Child protection MINEDUB Cameroon Ministry Of Basic Education MINESEC Cameroon Ministry of secondary Education MINPROFF Cameroon Ministry of Promotion of women and family PSN Persons with Special needs LQAS Lot Quality Assurance Sampling FGD Focus group Discussion UNDP United Nations Develoment program CEP Certificat d’Etudes primaires LWF Lutheran World Federation Page 3 of 30 List of figures Figure 1: # CAR Refugees in Cameroon, 2014-2017 ..................................................................................... 8 Figure 2: Trends In livelihood of Refugees Before and after the crisis ....................................................... 12 Figure 3: Coping strategies used to face the crisis during the past year .................................................... 12 Figure 4: Coping strategies used by refugees of the East region ................................................................ 13 Figure 5: Coping strategies used by refugees of the adamawa region ....................................................... 13 Figure 6: Copying strategies used by refugees of the North ...................................................................... 14 Figure 7: Daily income of refugees households in the East camps ............................................................. 15 Figure 8: Daily Income of refugees household in the Adamawa region ..................................................... 15 Figure 9: Income of refugees household in the North region .................................................................... 16 Figure 10: Distribution of Dissatisfaction with the quantity of food usually eaten during meal and the day before this survey ....................................................................................................................................... 17 Figure 11: Average Weekly Dietary diversity of Household surveyed ........................................................ 18 Figure 12: Ability of households in the Adamawa to afford to take children of school going age to school .................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Figure 13: Ability of households in the East region to afford to take children of school going age to school .................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Figure 14: Ability of households in the North to afford to take children of school going age to school .... 21 Figure 15: General Ability of households surveyed to afford to take children of school going age to school .................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Figure 16: Access to primary education in children aged 6-17 years ......................................................... 25 Figure 17: Access to secondary education in adults who have completed their primary education ......... 25 Figure 18: Nature of assistance received by refugees of the Adamawa sites ............................................ 26 Figure 19: Nature of assistance received by refugees residing in East sites .............................................. 26 Figure 20: Nature of assistance received by refugees in the north (Touboro district) ............................... 27 Page 4 of 30 Key findings/executive summary Over the last ten years, Cameroon has admitted tens of thousands of refugees fleeing violence in the Central African Republic (CAR). Most have settled outside camps, with 70% living in rural, peri-urban and urban areas of eastern Cameroon. With an increasing gap between funding and needs and a growing crisis with Nigerian refugees in northern Cameroon, supporting CAR refugees’ self-reliance has become more urgent than ever. Lack of livelihoods to cover daily needs, lack of free access to health and food insecurity for off-site and even for in-site refugees can lead to the use of dangerous coping mechanisms. This survey was meant to provide a baseline situation of CAR refugees in East, Adamawa and North regions and to document key questions related to existing coping mechanisms, livelihood needs and aspirations as moving toward empowerment. A total of 418 Household were interviewed, 21 Focus group discussions conducted with 210 participants and 11 key Informants interviwed. We found that the refugees questioned attempt to restore their flock and that investment in trade, agriculture and livestock are among the most used coping mechanisms; even these activities are not reproduced with the magnitude that before the crisis. Before the crisis 51% of refugees interviewed were involved in trade now only 19% are try to reestablish the activity. A number of challenges have been identifies in relation to trends in self-reliance and livelihood activity; Food security and food production; civil registration

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