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- UNHCR
The multi-sector market assessment companion guide and toolkit provides step-by-step guidance and ready-to-use tools to enable non-specialist staff to conduct market assessments and undertake market monitoring.
The purpose of this companion guide and toolkit is to enable multi-functional teams to include findings of market assessment analyses in their analysis and decision making related to cash based interventions.
The companion guide and toolkit are broken into three component:
- The companion guide introduces the outlines its target audience, assessment timeline, team roles, protection considerations and market assessment rationale. The companion guide is framed by the Market Assessment Framework (MAF). MAF outlines the seven steps of the assessment, demonstrating which data must be collected and how the tools and methodology should be utilised in each step to answer critical questions before moving to the next step. A supplementary step on market monitoring for cash-based interventions ensures that data are updated for ongoing analysis during the operations management cycle.
- The toolkit (section 5), consists of 12 easy-to-use tools including questionnaires, checklists, mapping instructions and worksheets.
- The Annex A, provides an assessment team with additional guidance, resources and supplementary technical support that may be required during the assessment. This additional guidance is for assessment team leaders and should be read before the assessment starts. The annex gives a more detailed understanding of assessment methodology and available solutions to some of the challenges that may be encountered. It shows, for example, how to apply a protection lens to the assessment process, how to work in different contexts and how to understand data collection methodologies.
Useful for:
The guide and toolkit have been developed for staff with limited or no technical skills in market data collection. Since UNHCR works globally and in varied contexts, they are meant to support decision making in all operational contexts. These include protracted and emergency settings, camp and non-camp settings, in low- and middle-income countries and in urban and rural areas.