The Emergency Market Mapping Analysis (EMMA) Toolkit is a set of tools and guidance notes, designed to encourage and assist frontline humanitarian staff in sudden-onset emergencies to better understand and make use of market-systems. It provides accessible, relevant guidance to staff who are not already specialists in market analysis. Available in Spanish, English and French.

EMMA's aim is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of early humanitarian actions taken to ensure people's survival; to protect their food security and their livelihoods; and to help agencies to avoid doing harm. It also very useful especially when considering the use of cash-based interventions or prolonged in-kind responses and also important for thinking how any response might either encourage subsequent recovery or prolong dependence on outside assistance.

The four 'strands' of EMMA are gap analysis, baseline mapping, emergency mapping and response analysis, the latest explores different opportunities for humanitarian assistance: their respective feasibility, likely outcomes, benefits and risks.

EMMA helps humanitarian agencies to understand the important market aspects of an emergency situation and communicate this knowledge promptly and effectively into programme decision-making processes, ensuring analysis results feed into the key decision- making processes of the organisation.

Available in English, French and Spanish.

• Organization: OXFAM, IRC, Practical Action
• Pages: 231
• Year of publication: 2010
• Copyright: © Oxfam GB, 2010
• Url: Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis Toolkit