PHOENIX
PHASE 1
The Assessment Phase identifies barriers to nutritious diets in communities. This information helps design effective interventions for food security. By monitoring nutritional status, we can track the effectiveness of our interventions and ensure they have a lasting impact.
Current Phase: 1
Achieved Statuses: Ongoing Broad-based Feeding Support, Nutrition Education, Health and Nutrition Awareness Campaigns, Ongoing Nutrition Surveillance and Anthropometric Surveys Assessments, Co-occurrence of adequate diets and adequate care for children under 5.
Food Security 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.Â
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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