Months of Adequate Household Food Provisioning (MAHFP) for Measurement of Household Food Access: Indicator Guide, Version 4 (2010)

Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS) for Measurement of Household Food Access: Indicator Guide, Version 2 (2006)

Household food access is defined as the ability to acquire sufficient quality and quantity of food to meet all household members’ nutritional requirements for productive lives. Given the variety of activities implemented by Title II Awardees to improve household food access and the significant challenges most Awardees face in measuring household food access for reporting purposes, there is a need to build consensus on appropriate household food access impact indicators. These two guides describe two proxy measures of household food access and provide background on the indicators as well as guidance on data collection (including questionnaire format) and analysis.

FANTA’s Months of Inadequate Household Food Provisioning (MIHFP) for Measurement of Household Food Access: Indicator Guide (2005) was updated and retitled in June 2007 to the Months of Adequate Household Food Provisioning (MAHFP) for Measurement of Household Food Access: Indicator Guide to reflect changes in how the indicator is reported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and its Office of Food for Peace (FFP). The guide has since been further revised; this version is the fourth edition. A second version of the Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS) for Measurement of Household Food Access: Indicator Guide was produced in 2006 with a corrected example in Appendix 1.

Household Hunger Scale

Household Food Insecurity Access Scale for Measurement of Food Access: Indicator Guide