This report is published by the World Food Programme, with support from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), National Programme for Food Security (NPFS) of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), National Population Commission (NPoPC), Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWSNET) and cooperating INGO partners.
This report examines the essential needs of populations affected by the complex emergency in northeast Nigeria and is intended to be used as a tool to identify targeting and assistance options for the most vulnerable populations in affected areas, at the LGA level.
The report follows up the October 2020 edition1 and will draw comparisons throughout. This edition combines two rounds of assessments. The October 2021 assessment covered all Essential Needs indicators and had larger sample sizes representative at the LGA level. The February 2022 assessment was a smaller round of data collection limited to the main outcome indicators and sampling representative at the domain level.
Specifically, the combined October 2021 and February 2022 edition of the Essential Needs Assessment has the following objectives:
• Provide a comparative analysis of demographic, geographic and socio-economic characteristics of food insecure households, including unmet essential needs;
• Provide an update on the food security and other vulnerability outcomes of the conflict affected population in northeast Nigeria;
• Inform the October 2021 and March 2022 Cadre Harmonise (CH) analysis and humanitarian caseload planning.