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CONTEXT
Lebanon is facing a multi-layered crisis resulting from years of economic mismanagement, structural vulnerabilities including poor infrastructure, a weak public sector and deteriorating social services, as well as the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2020 Beirut blast.1 These factors have contributed to civil unrest, high poverty rates and limited functionality of public services, and have driven household (HH) vulnerability more generally.? The ongoing crisis has multiple consequences that affect the population groups present in Lebanon with different levels of severity. In this complex context, humanitarian actors showed the need for up to date information to guide their programming.
To support an evidence-based humanitari-an response, the United Nations (UN) Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and REACH Initiative (REACH), with support from the Emergency Operation Cell (EOC), have therefore conducted a coun-try-wide Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (MSNA), funded by the European Civil Pro- tection and Humanitarian Aid Operations unit (DG-ECHO) and the Lebanese Humanitarian Fund (LHF).