Nigeria Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (MSNA) 2020 - Key Findings, Adamawa State Format CONTEXT North East Nigeria continues to experience significant humanitarian needs after over 11 years of conflict affecting the Lake Chad region. The 2020 Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) identified 7.9 million individuals in the three states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe (collectively, the “BAY” states) to be in need of humanitarian assistance. To respond to persisting information gaps on humanitarian needs severity and to inform response planning, the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)’s Inter-Sector Working Group (ISWG), with support from REACH, conducted a Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (MSNA) in the BAY States. The MSNA aimed to identify and compare needs by sector and across sectors, across population groups affected by the protracted crisis and in all accessible areas in the BAY states.