MIFIRA Framework Lecture 3 Other response analysis tools Chris Barrett and Erin Lentz February 2012.

MIFIRA FrameworkLecture 3

Other response analysis tools

Chris Barrett and Erin Lentz February 2012

Lecture Overview:

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• Multiple approaches to market assessments vary by:

• Objectives • Approaches• Users • Audiences (sometimes)• Methodology

• Briefly examine:• Oxfam – EMMA• WFP – EFSA and CFSVA• FEWs – Market Assessment and Analysis

• Tradeoffs across approaches

Various Approaches to Market Analysis

• EMMA, CFSVA/EFSA, FEWS Net, MIFIRA (and other techniques) share common elements. Approaches differs due to objectives, and speed/breadth tradeoffs

• Can draw on many of the same data sources and findings from others’ use of other tools. None are mechanical formulae.

• MIFIRA objective is more specific than most: identify the context of food markets facing the target food insecure population and likely behavioral response of key market participants so as to identify the resource most appropriate to the circumstance.

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Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis (EMMA):

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• Objective • Approach• Duration of assessment • Users • Audience

EMMA: Market System Baseline Map for Beans in

Haiti in 2008

5Source: Albu 2010.

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EMMA: Market System Emergency-updated Map for

Beans in Haiti in 2008

6Source: Albu 2010.

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EMMA: Response Analysis: Supply Market Systems

7Source: Albu 2010.

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WFP: Emergency Food Security Assessment and

Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Assessment

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• Objective • Approach• Duration of assessment • Users • Audience

WFP Comprehensive Food Security & Vulnerability

Analysis (CFSVA)

9Source: World Food Program 2009.

WFP EFSA: Step two of response analysis

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• Following identification of possible responses, undertake a SWOT analysis– strengths and weakness (i.e.,

appropriateness) of the options• compatibility with needs• stigmatize recipients, divert them from other tasks• feasibility

– realistic targeting– timeliness of response

– opportunities and threats that may affect the response• e.g., improving / deteriorating security

Famine Early Warning System (FEWs): Market Assessment

and Analysis

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• Objective • Approach• Duration of assessment • Users • Audience

FEWs: Market Assessment and Analysis: Annex 12: Typical Markets Questions for

Cash vs Food Response Choices (lesson 2, p. 39)

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Tradeoffs and Choices

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• Objectives: – Components of a response analysis– Range of interventions

• Approach– Data requirements (e.g., reliance on

baselines and/or primary data)– Duration of the assessment

• User capacity– Technical and field capacity requirements

• Audience