3. Assessment and Analysis

Needs Assessment

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Operational Standards 

Age, disability and gender disaggregated information are collected on priority needs, risks and preferences for assistance, across sectors, and over time.

Key Actions

  1. Ensure participation and buy-in from relevant sectors on needs assessment methodologies
  2. Assess the preferred modality of assistance for people affected by the crisis to cover their various needs and ensure participation of different gender groups (if possible, disaggregate preferred methods)
  3. Ask crisis affected women, girls, men and boys how they typically access markets and services and which needs they usually cover through markets. OR update this information if a gender analysis has already been implemented during the preparedness phase.
  4. Assess how crisis affected women, girls, men and boys typically access cash and their current familiarity with digital payments if the context allows it
  5. Analyze the gendered protection risks (e.g. safety and negative coping mechanisms) for all genders and their sub-groups at outset and throughout the program.
  6. Capture needs of women, men, boys and girls in a Minimum Expenditure Basket (MEB) after ensuring that a MEB has not already been defined by one or more clusters at national level

Market Assessment

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Operational Standards

Market functionality and access is assessed. 

Key Actions

  1. Identify how market analysis will inform your programme and define your objectives and key assessment questions accordingly (e.g. is the market functionality conducive to the use of CVA, does the market need support to allow for the use of CVA and if so which one?)
    Do not limit the use of market data to assess CVA feasibility but consider the whole market based programming spectrum.

  2. Select important market systems based on the priority needs and market avaibility in the targeted areas
  3. Define the analytical and geographic scope of the assessment
  4. Collect secondary and then primary market data disaggregated by gender, age, and disability
  5. Produce visual representation of the supply chain and/or market systems (e.g. geographic maps and/or market system maps)
  6. Disseminate findings with stakeholders

Market Analysis

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Operational Standards 

Market analysis is included as a key component of response analysis, to inform the design and implementation of appropriate interventions using and supporting local markets

Key Actions

  1. Set the level of analysis based on the quality of the existing information, time and resources available, and the risk that the intervention will harm the market
  2. Understand the overall market environment and the impact it has on key markets
  3. Triangulate data collected using different methods and from different sources in order to identify unreliable data and inconsistencies
  4. Analyse trends rather than individual data points and take into account seasonal effects
  5. When drawing conclusions, clearly state the assumptions, the type of data on which they are based, and any risks that may be linked to the assumptions and analyzed women and men’s voices separetly
  6. Clearly show the link between the analysis, conclusions and the ultimate response recommendations

Gender Analysis

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Key actions

  • 1. Ensure the Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA) includes an assessment of markets, gendered access (pre- and post-crisis), potential GBV risks, and other elements that may shape the use of CVA (e.g. financial inclusion, access to financial service providers, and technology, literacy, and numeracy)
  • 2. Conduct CVA risk assessment involving audit team
    • Tools
    • Compendium and CARE Guidelines in CVA
    • Risk assessment grid

Partner Capacity Analysis

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Key actions

Key considerations for partner selection include: gender sensitivity, response scale, internal capacity (programmatic, financial, logistic, relevant staff’s CVA experience), presence in the project location (or knowledge of the context) and cash readiness (or amount of work that would go into making a partner cash ready).

Assessment and Selection of Financial Service Providers

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Operational Standards 

FSP options for delivering CVA are mapped, alongside the infrastructural and regulatory environment

Key Actions

  1. Identify existing service providers (e-voucher providers, FSP and traders) considering local, national and global service providers options (including traders and mechanisms used to deliver social safety nets)
  2. Scope out the infrastructure environment in the operating context to understand what means are currently used to transfer cash
  3. Identify the regulatory considerations in the operating context to understand the effect on how beneficiaries can access cash (by consulting other humanitarian actors/ cash-working groups/ governement representatives)
  4. Document the characteristics of potential CVAs: size; frequency of transfer; required speed of delivery; scale-up; population type, gender, age and implication for ID; population location (rural/urban); likely level of contextual risk; organisational risk
  5. Account for women and men financial literacy, technology familiarity, access, control, safety and preferences