Assistance in chronic conflict areas: evidence from South Sudan

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The impact of armed conflicts on health‐care utilization in Northern Nigeria: A difference‐in‐differences analysis

“…To capture all armed conflict incidents which may affect the provision and utilization of healthcare services, we follow d'Errico et al (2021) and include all conflict incidents with at least one fatality irrespective of whether BH claimed responsibility or not. Using geocoordinates, we spatially match fatal incidents obtained from the ACLED data set to the clusters of the NDHS households based on the distance between each cluster and event locations over the survey years 2008, 2013, and 2018.…”

“…In view of the absence of a standard definition for conflict exposure (Chukwuma & Ekhator-Mobayode, 2019), we classify a cluster to be within a conflict catchment area (and the household exposed to conflict) if it is located within a 5-km radius of conflict event (s) with at least one fatality. A similar measure of conflict exposure has been used in recent literature (Chukwuma & Ekhator-Mobayode, 2019;d'Errico et al, 2021).…”

Evaluation of Household Resilience Capacity Index to Food insecurity Case study: Hosein Abad Rekhneh Gol village - Iran.

“…Given the growing global chronic hunger near 690 million people in recent years (Bedeau et al, 2021;d'Errico et al, 2021), creating and increasing resilience among disadvantaged and impoverished communities, emphasized in the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, is a significant concern to most countries (Sustainable Development Goals, 2019). The term resilience, generally considered as the capacity of a system to withstand various risks, was first examined in the general theory of systems and then in various studies such as ecology, psychology, epidemiology, engineering, etc.…”