Social assistance and coping with crises in Borno, Nigeria

This paper was produced for the BASIC (Better Assistance in Crises) Research programme in partnership with DEEP.

It examines the relationship between social assistance, violent conflict, and intersecting crises, and considers how social assistance can help offset erosive forms of coping that could otherwise drive poverty and food insecurity. To investigate these issues, the study draws on newly collected household data covering 1,000 survey respondents in 2023 from the Konduga and Maiduguri Municipal Council local government areas in Borno, Nigeria. Borno has been an epicentre for violence over the past 15 years, and has experienced a range of intersecting crises.

Available at: https://doi.org/10.19088/BASIC.2024.019