Up to the Standards? Humanitarian Standards for Market Assessment and Analysis

Jun 4, 2018 | by The SEEP Network

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Market assessment (collection of market data) and market analysis (analysis of this data to inform decision making) are crucial components of humanitarian response. Humanitarian standards for market analysis provide practitioners with tools for market assessment that are informed by industry consensus of best practices. Through the application of these standards, economic recovery approaches are designed to work for and with local markets, thus building the long-term resiliency of vulnerable communities affected by crises.

This webinar explored the Assessment and Analysis Standards from the Minimum Economic Recovery Standards (MERS), and the Minimum Standard for Market Analysis (MiSMA). As partner standards to Sphere and members of the Humanitarian Standards Partnership, the MERS and MiSMA promote quality and accountability in economic recovery and cash-based programming. During this webinar, we:

• Examined the content and complementarity of MERS and MiSMA
• Discussed how these standards contribute to the quality and effectiveness of market assessment and analysis
• Provided examples of practical application of these standards through compelling case studies from the field

The webinar was jointly presented by The SEEP Network and the Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP), with guest speakers from Catholic Relief Services.

Speakers

Sarah Ward, Independent Consultant, Markets, Livelihoods and Resilience

Sarah is a post-conflict/post-disaster market systems specialist with more than 17 years technical experience adapting market development approaches to some of the world’s most challenging contexts. She is currently an independent consultant supporting economic resilience and recovery whom has recently served as the Technical Advisor for Enterprise Development at the International Rescue Committee as well as the Director of Market Development for Mercy Corps.

Isabelle Pelly, CaLP Technical Coordinator

Isabelle is the global technical coordinator for CaLP, the global partnership of humanitarian actors engaged in policy, practice and research within cash transfer programming. She is responsible for providing leadership and quality control across all CaLP’s technical work, including capacity building, knowledge management and research, and coordination. She also leads CaLP’s Technical Advisory Group (TAG), comprised of leading technical experts in cash transfer programming (CTP) across CaLP's membership.

Kassoum Ouattara, Technical Advisor – Food Security & Markets, Humanitarian Response Department, Catholic Relief Services

Kassoum Ouattara is one of CRS cash and markets technical advisors in the Humanitarian Response Department. His current position is Technical Advisor for Food Security and Markets. Kassoum capitalizes 20 years of experience with CRS. Most of the experience is related to emergency preparedness and response, food security and market-based programming. Kassoum is now one of CRS’ experts in market assessment, market monitoring, response options analysis and evaluation of market-based programs.

Edward Walters, Technical Advisor – Agriculture & Markets, Humanitarian Response Department, Catholic Relief Services

Ed Walters is currently working as a Technical Advisor for Agriculture in Markets in CRS’s Humanitarian Response Department. His focus is post-emergency livelihoods, market-based emergency responses, and agricultural recovery. He has conducted post emergency Livelihood studies (South Sudan, Guinea, Nepal), Seed Security Assessments (Malawi, Guinea, East Timor), Market value chain studies (Nigeria, Haiti [EMMA]), and project evaluations (Tanzania – FTF-funded Soya ni Pesa project).