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Number of market and financial system actors involved in food and basic needs emergency response

Number of market and financial system actors involved in food and basic needs emergency response

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Result Level:
  • Output
Objectives:
  • Survival and livelihoods protection threshold
  • Food Security and Nutrition
  • Access to Livelihoods Support Services and Markets
Description:

Number of traders or private/financial institutions supporting the food voucher transfer, cash transfer modalities and providing goods to the supported households, proxy for improved access and availability of food on household level as well as sustainable potential longer term services and impact. - Includes various food assistance modalities, through general ration food distributions, food vouchers, food for work, cash grants, etc. - Includes cash transfers through vouchers, cash grants, direct cash, conditional and unconditional cash transfers, cash for work, etc. This indicator is a proxy of engagement in the response by market and financial system actors.

Disaggregated By:

Geography/Livelihoods zone; Period to achieve the objective;

Direction of change:
  • Increase (number)
Data source:

Progress/Endline. Data Collection methods: Households Survey, Focus Group Discussion; Distribution list Activity report (Procurement/logistics reports; Beneficiary list; Trader list; Finance records; Mapping of distribution points)

Sector/Subsector:
  • Economic Security
  • Food security
  • Access to Market and Services
Source: gFSC-1 gFSC-2 HR-1 ACF-1 OXFAM-1
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Measure Notes:

> Number of traders involved in the voucher transfer > Number of vouchers exchanged through these traders/systems > Number of assisted people/households using the identified traders > Quantity of food exchanged by assisted people/households from these traders (by type) Watch Out For! - The number of actors involved is not necessary proportional to the effectiveness of the response. - Market system actors can be both new and existing users of the system as well as new entries initiated by the humanitarian intervention. For more details on methodology: Emergency Food Security Assessment Handbook (EFSA) - Second Edition, 2009: http://www.wfp.org/content/emergency-food-security-assessment-handbook