REACH DRC 2025 Multi-Sectoral Needs Assessment (MSNA) - Household Survey Dataset

According to the 2024 Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO), 25.4 million people were in need of humanitarian assistance in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with approximately one-fifth of these people concentrated in three eastern provinces: Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu (5.4 million). The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), for its projected analysis covering the period from July 2024 to June 2025, indicated that 25.5 million people were experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, including more than 5 million in the eastern provinces.This situation has been significantly exacerbated by the intensification of fighting since January 2025, resulting in the displacement of more than 700,000 people in North Kivu Province, specifically between the territories of Masisi, Goma, and Rutshuru. Ongoing clashes in numerous territories, such as Masisi, Lubero, and Uvira, further worsen the situation. The situation of needs is simultaneously restricting access and the capacity of humanitarian actors to respond, and is already causing displacement to the neighboring provinces of Tanganyika and Ituri.Lacking the capacity to cover the entire territory at the health zone level (administrative unit 3) through a representative needs assessment, strategic stakeholders deemed it necessary to concentrate data collection efforts at a more detailed level in the eastern part of the country. Indeed, the resurgence of the protracted conflict has been hitting the populations of this region hard for several months, and a significant number of people are directly impacted.To date, significant gaps in information on the health zones in the east of the country remain. In order to ensure representative data at the level of as many health zones as possible, defined as priorities in terms of information needs in three provinces of eastern DRC (Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu), which are particularly affected by humanitarian crises, and to provide further information, this assessment is crucial. Following the analysis of the 2026 Humanitarian Needs Outlook (HNO) for these areas, REACH conducted a Multi-Sectoral Needs Assessment (MSNA) between June and August 2025. Source: REACH Initiative