The World Food Programme initiated a Cash-Based Transfer (CBT) program in 2016 to provide assistance to families affected by the crisis. A total of 173,000 beneficiaries in Borno and Yobe States were assisted through the use of cash with a transfer value of 23,550 per household. During the last quarter of 2016, the largest proportion of WFP's cash assistance to displaced and host households was in Borno State. As WFP scales up its operations in the northeast and explore ways of expanding its CBT/voucher initiative, a market assessment was initiated in some selected locations in Borno and Yobe as part of a multi-sectorial capacity assessment for CBT.