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Executive Summary
The Minimum Expenditure Basket (MEB) defines the essential goods and services a household requires to meet their basic needs on a regular or seasonal basis, along with their average cost.
This updated tool remains central to Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA), supporting multi-purpose cash programming and providing:
Transfer value benchmarks for food and non-food needs.
Data to inform multi-sector market assessments.
Baselines for monitoring cost of living trends and resilience outcomes.
Key Objectives of the 2024 MEB Review:
- Support the Transition to MPCA: Strengthen the transition to multi-purpose cash programming where feasible.
- Reduce Conflict and Increase Transparency: Establish consistent programming across all sites and sectors.
- Enhance Efficiency: Lower logistical costs and eliminate wastage from distributing items that do not meet beneficiaries' needs.
- Harmonize Response: Develop a unified approach to meet the needs of vulnerable households in Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe (BAY) states.
- Replication: Provide a replicable template for other regions in Nigeria