Profiling the vulnerability of Palestine refugees from Syria living in Lebanon

During the summer of 2014, UNRWA conducted a Vulnerability Assessment of all PRS families recorded in Lebanon. Each family was interviewed in their home using a 45-minute-long multi-sectorial family questionnaire that was based on the World Food Program’s (WFP) Vulnerability Assesment of Syrian Refugees (VASyR) questionnaire and adapted for the UNRWA-specific context. The findings presented in this report are based on analysis of data gathered from 12,735 PRS families and 44,227 individuals. The Vulnerability Assessment sought to provide a profile of the PRS population according to the following eight sectors: 1) economic; 2) education; 3) food security; 4) health; 5) non-food items (NFIs); 6) protection; 7) shelter; and 8) water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). In addition, an overall vulnerability score was calculated.