The food security status in Karamoja in May 2014 is worse than last year. The Integrated Phase Food Security Classification (IPC) analysis, which was carried out for Karamoja in April, found that 18% of the population is in IPC phase 3 (Crisis); approximately 252,000 of the 1.37 million people in Karamoja. A further 58% of the population are classified as being in Phase 2 (Stressed).
Two-thirds of the households across Karamoja region depict inadequate food consumption. A clear deterioration of food consumption patterns across Karamoja is seen in the period February to June 2014. In this time, the percentage of households with Adequate or Acceptable food consumption has decreased by more than 10%; and there has been a proportional increase in households depicting Borderline food consumption. The prevalence of wasting in most of the districts of Karamoja is serious (>10%) and Moroto has the highest prevalence of wasting (22.2%), categorized as critical. The highest prevalence of underweight (severely wasted and wasted) among mothers is seen in Amudat, Napak and Kaabong districts. Source: WFP & UNICEF.