COMMUNAL TYPOLOGY OF LIVELIHOOD VULNERABILITY IN MATERI AND BANIKOARA, BORDER AREAS OF NORTHERN BENIN

Background: Since 2021, armed groups spreading from the Sahel have turned the northern communes of Benin into places of refuge for displaced people. An average vulnerability score says little about how deficits combine inside a household, or how they differ from one commune to the next. Methods: A multisector household survey was carried out from 29 August to 4 September 2026 among 250 households in Materi (156) and Banikoara (94): host families, internally displaced persons (IDPs), and refugees or asylum seekers. The Livelihood Vulnerability Index (LVI) and its IPCC variant were built from 33 sub-components grouped into eight components. A multiple correspondence analysis followed by hierarchical clustering was run on 16 actives variables.