The price monitoring, analysis and response Kit (MARKit) was developed by representatives from the Local Regional Procurement (LRP) Learning Alliance, with funding from USAID, to guide food assistance practitioners through the steps to monitor markets during the implementation of food assistance programmes and to ensure that programmes remain responsive to changing market conditions.
The purpose of the toolkit is to help food assistance programmes maximise their effectiveness and maintain the principle of 'do no harm' standards by mitigating unintended impacts on market systems.
The MARKit tool is divided into six steps from preparing for the assessment, gathering data, investigating price changes and then adjusting if necessary. The manual itself is broken into six chapters that follow this process sequentially.