A large proportion of the population in affected areas is dependent on the general ration for household food security at this time. However, the ration is a partial ration (75 percent or 1,575kcal/person/day) aimed at covering 80 percent of the population in pastoral districts and 60 percent in Turkana29. Cereals have been in sufficient supply, but both pulses and oil are in short supply, and in many cases, households have not received any oil30. This has resulted in significant problems regarding both the quantity and the quality of the general ration. This is compounded by issues related to targeting at the community level (who gets what and how much), resulting in uneven, and in some cases, inequitable distribution. Despite recent agreement in the KFSSG that households of children admitted to therapeutic feeding programs should be linked to the general ration distribution, this is not always the case in practice. In many cases there is sharing of the ration and it lasts up to two weeks of the month. While end-use monitoring is tight, selling, trading and use of relief food (maize) for making alcohol (Boraa) is quite common. A switch from whole maize to bulgar wheat and sorghum is exacerbating general ration quality issues in the northeast, since many people do not like these commodities and prefer to trade or sell them. The pipeline is expected to be more stable from June and thus the food basket should be more complete. As noted above CSB (2.4kg) was to be added to the ration from June. This should help to address ration quality issues.