The FAO has developed a monitoring system in 26 food crisis countries to better understand the impacts of various shocks on agricultural livelihoods, food security and local value chains. The Monitoring System consists of primary data collected from households on a periodic basis (more or less every four months, depending on seasonality). The FAO conducted the fourth round of the Data in Emergencies Monitoring Survey (DIEM-Monitoring) between 1 September and 6 October 2022 to assess household livelihoods and food security in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The survey covered 2 781 agricultural and non-agricultural households in 11 of the country's 26 provinces: Ituri, Kasai, Kasai-Central, Kasai-Oriental, Kwango, North Kivu, North Ubangi, South Kivu, South Ubangi, Tanganyika and Tshopo. Households were interviewed through computer-assisted telephone surveys. Weights for population size and household wealth were applied to ensure that the results were representative.