VARON: Vulnerability Assessment of Non-Syrian Refugees in Lebanon - 2020

The 2020 Vulnerability Assessment of Refugees of Other Nationalities (VARON) is an annual household survey representing non-Syrian refugee populations in Lebanon. It provides a multi-sectoral update on indicators including protection, shelter, health, livelihoods, and food security. The survey, conducted by UNHCR, is used for advocacy, program design, and targeting multi-purpose cash assistance.

Use Cases

• Modeling socio-economic vulnerability for cash assistance targeting based on expenditure data.
• Analyzing multi-sectoral needs across protection, shelter, and health indicators for program design.
• Assessing the impact of compounded crises on non-Syrian refugee households in Lebanon.
• Tracking changes in food security and livelihood conditions for advocacy purposes.

Strengths

• Annual survey series running since 2016, providing a time-series perspective.
• Covers multiple sectors including protection, shelter, health, livelihoods, and food security.
• Data is used to build econometric models for targeting humanitarian cash assistance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and sample size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the survey's focus on Lebanon in 2020.

Provenance

Source

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

Collection Method

Annual household survey.

Time Range

2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-03 14:30:05.289560; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Lebanon