Food availability in the Republic of Djibouti is mainly provided by imports, which account for more than 90% of food requirements. Food access depends heavily on the domestic and foreign market prices and on the dynamics of income sources that fluctuate according to periods at the rate of the global market. Thus, the increase in food prices estimated at 23% in the interval of less than one year, increasingly reduces the level of food access. In addition, 73% of household income in food insecurity according to the EFSA 2012 report is earmarked for food expenditure, with 25% acquiring it by credit. Reduced food access is particularly important for families living in the outskirts of the city of Djibouti, fleeing the rural environment whose livelihoods (mainly pastoralism) are being destroyed by extreme conditions. Indeed, recurrent droughts and environmental degradation due to climate change have led to the impoverishment of the population in rural areas and their massive displacement to the capital and its periphery, where the country's economic infrastructure is concentrated. These families are mainly found in the municipalities of Barbara and Boulaos, who are also very vulnerable to the slightest shock by their very high poverty rates (even poverty rates on the first page at the level of the main results). 

The deterioration in food consumption and nutrition reflects the considerable vulnerability to food insecurity in the two communes. Indeed, WFP's food insecurity analysis reports indicate that the poor and limiting food consumption score has deteriorated by about 10% between 2010 and 2012 in the city of Djibouti, In the most high-risk municipalities. The analysis exercise in urban and peri-urban areas showed signs of food insecurity in phase 3 "Crisis" in the commune of Balbala.

The main factors driving food insecurity are:

• increase of food prices estimated at 23%
• high dependency on food imports
• extreme conditions destroying pastoral livelihoods
• recurrent droughts and environmental degradation

More data is needed to allow an analysis of food insecurity in the Ras-Dika commune, which also shows signs of pronounced food insecurity. We recommend that prospective surveys (EFSA, SMART, Ect ...) collect the data making it possible to distinguish between the districts of the city of Djibouti in general and of the districts peripherals in particular.

A session of the lessons learned and a deepening of the technical training of the TWG are also necessary for a better appropriation of the tool on the one hand and for an improvement of the quality of the end product IPC on the other hand. 

It is also important that the Government's process of appropriating the tool is a short-term priority for the IPC Technical Working Group.