
Phoenix
Current Phase: 1
Ongoing Broad-based Feeding Support, Nutrition Education, Health and Nutrition Awareness Campaigns, PRA Assessment, Ongoing Nutrition Surveillance and Anthropometric Surveys Assessments, Stage 2 of the PRA(Training) Process.

Food Security status in the area.
Phoenix is an Indian township about 25 kilometres northwest of Durban Central. It was established as a town by the apartheid government in 1976, but it has a long history of Indian occupation. It is associated with the Phoenix Settlement, built by Mahatma Gandhi. initially a sugarcane estate and since the mid-1970s a municipal housing development for the Indian community beginning with unit 4-Stonebridge. Sections were initially labelled as precincts and later renamed with proper street addresses.
CURRENT STATS INCASE YOU NEED THEM:
There is no data on Phoneix’s IPC Acute Food Insecurity Analysis available. For this reason, data for eThekwini Municipality, which it falls under, will be used.
IPC ACUTE FOOD INSECURITY ANALYSIS |
CURRENT- POPULATION |
PROJECTED- POPULATION |
KEY DRIVERS |
|
None |
2 024 212
|
1 705 151 |
Lived Poverty, Unemployment, |
|
Stressed |
674 737 |
852 576 |
Instability of Food Access, |
|
Crisis |
506 053 |
682 060 |
Food Affordability, |
|
Emergency |
168 684 |
170 515 |
Loss of Income, |
|
Catastrophe |
0 |
0 |
Covid-19 Impact, Informal Environment, Marginal/ Imbalanced Food Systems |