MEASURING SEPARATION IN EMERGENCIES: Concise Pilot Report Democratic Republic of Congo July-August 2014 - Population-Based Estimation Method

Lindsay Stark, Beth Rubenstein, Hani Mansourian and Craig Spencer (Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University), Anna Skeels (Save the Children)

This document provides a brief summary of the field testing of the population-based estimation method (or ‘estimation method’) in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A fuller account of the field testing can be found in the longer document: Pilot Summary Report, Democratic Republic of Congo: Population-Based Estimation by the same authors.The estimation method was used to estimate the scale and basic characteristics of separation resulting from the armed group M23’s takeover of Goma in December 2012, also affecting the neighbouring territory of Nyiragongo. The pilot ran from July to August 2014.

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