KWAMGWAGWA

KWAMGWAGWA

PHASE 4

The education programs equip communities with the skills to become self-sufficient in ensuring food security and health. They provide training in specific areas like surveys and project management, enabling communities to independently coordinate and sustain their initiatives.

Current Phase: 4

Achieved Statuses: 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.

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Food Security in the area

KwaMgwagwa in uMgungundlovu District Municipality (KwaZulu-Natal) is a town in South Africa about 294 mi (or 473 km) south-east of Pretoria, the country’s capital city.The District constitutes about 10% of the Province of KwaZulu-Natal. The District is now number two in size after Ethekwini Metro with 1,017,763 people in it. Education: only 24.6% of the youth in 2011 completed Grade 12. since 38% of the total population is young people aged 15-35 years , this is a cause for concern and a need. there is slight decrease of fertility rate in 2011 as show by age structure ˂15 presentation. The District is also experiencing population aging; there is an increase and stable life expectancy in most local municipalities except Richmond 5.1 in 2001 and 4.7 in 2011 census. The average life expectancy age in South Africa is 57 years. here are 65% who are economically active and 29.1% unemployment rate as calculated as an average of the Local Municipalities. Further calculations need to be done to compare the jobs that have been created through the capital works programmes including the EPWP and others. 80% of the districts population have their water source at the local or Regional Water scheme that is operated by the local municipality water the remaining 19.6% rely on borehole as their water source. 86.1% of the district uses electricity and 14% use other means there is a 40.8%

The District is also experiencing population aging; there is an increase and stable life expectancy in most local municipalities except Richmond 

Current Stats

IPC Acute Food Insecurity Analysis Current Population Projected Population Key Drivers
None 2024212 1705151 Lived Poverty, Unemployment
Stressed 674737 852576 Instability of Food Access
Crisis 506053 682060 Food Affordability
Emergency 168684 170515 Loss of Income
Catastrophe 0 0 Covid-19 Impact, Informal Environment, Marginal/Imbalance Food Systems

 

   Current Stats

IPC Acute Food Insecurity Analysis Current Population
None 2024212
Stressed 674737
Crisis 506053
Emergency 168684
Catastrophe 0
Projected Population Key Drivers
1705151 Lived Poverty, Unemployment
852576 Instability of Food Access
170515 Food Affordability
23323 Loss of Income
0 Covid-19 Impact

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