The intentions of the assessment were threefold. As EMMA is a relatively new approach in Afghanistan, the intention was to utilise this event to build the capacity of Afghanistan humanitarian professionals (in market-based programming) who attended this EMMA by focusing on the following key objectives:
1. to raise awareness of the methodology and importance of considering markets in situation and response analysis
2. to reflect on the types of activities that have been historically carried out in response to drought, and to build resulting recommendations into the country contingency plan
3. Formulate both an emergency response plan and also a resilience building approach for future programmatic activities