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In Maiduguri, Northeast Nigeria, CRS staff are using biometrics to register people for an electronic voucher, which can be used to purchase food and household supplies in local markets. Beneficiaries are people who have been displaced by Boko Haram violence...Based on CRS experience, biometrics will reduce the risk of duplication and fraud...Background: ..Northeast Nigeria is amongst the world’s most neglected humanitarian crisis: it is presently estimated that 7 million individuals are in dire need of humanitarian assistance and that 2.2 million have been forced to flee their homes due to Boko Haram's violence.

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Uploaded on April 25, 2017