Tailor Margaret Angoro and family at Katine market. Photograph: Dan Chung
Amref has published its January 2008 household baseline survey of Katine sub-county, with illuminating results.
The survey found that, "conditions were uniformly poor with regard to access to safe water, latrine coverage, hygiene practices, prevalence of malaria and diarrhoea in young children, delivery in health facilities, food security, and use of livelihood support services."
Just 3 per cent of households were located within an acceptable distance (30 minutes) to a water source, while only 4 per cent used modern contraceptives and had access to appropriate hand-washing facilities. Just 5 per cent of those surveyed said they had adequate food in the last 12 months, and only 9 per cent belonged to a savings and loan group. Fifteen per cent of households have one meal per day.
What do you think of Amref's assertion that conditions for Katine people are worse than the average for rural areas of Uganda? How does Amref's survey compare to other surveys conducted by NGOs?
If you work for an NGO and have seen wildly different data-gathering exercises, please discuss them below. Or perhaps you had no idea that NGOs engage in this kind of background work. Please post all your comments below.
