Key Findings:
- LCAT produced the economic vulnerability score (EVS) indicator to identify pockets of vulnerability at the local level using data on changes in NLR concentration and fuel prices, which accounts for a relative lack of available data across most of Lebanon.
- The EVS corresponds well to existing common vulnerability indicators, specifically, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, Household Deprivation Score, and Multidimensional Poverty Index.
- Statistical correspondence between the EVS and a list of Lebanon’s most vulnerable cadasters produced by UN Inter-Agency Coordination suggests that the EVS can also be used to accurately identify economically vulnerable cadasters.
- Economically vulnerable cadasters are found throughout the country and most concentrated in the qadas of Tripoli, Zahle, Beirut, and Akkar.
- The EVS can be replicated for other contexts, specifically those with decentralized electricity production, with northern Yemen and Nigeria being possible future use cases.
By Crisis Analytics Team, Mercy Corps Lebanon
