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Key documents to help you understand and plan for PCMAs. For templates of specific documents such as questionnaires and TORs, see the relevant links on the templates page.
As increasing numbers of humanitarian organizations are experimenting with mobile data collection (MDC) in their assessments, it's worth considering what role, if any, MDC should play in emergency market assessments like EMMA. Using MDC tools can virtually eliminate the need for data entry and facilitate analysis, though they take more time and thought to develop and test than do paper questionnaires. The purpose of these tools is to improve the speed and quality of field-level data collection by eliminating the need to compile paper questionnaires, decipher handwriting and transcribe a...
To date, PCMA training workshops have only been conducted with teams who had gathered to carry out an actual PCMA assessment. Though there is no fixed curriculum for PCMA workshops, there is a great deal of overlap with the material covered during an EMMA training. Indeed, most training materials used to date have simply been adapted from existing EMMA materials.
This training is designed to prepare humanitarian practitioners from any sector or department to participate in an EMMA assessment. It can be and has often been conducted as a standalone training, which typically involves three-and-a-half days of classroom training and a day-and-a-half of practical field exercises; however, it has been found to be more effective when combined with an actual EMMA assessment exercise.
This short course is for people who want a better understanding of EMMA and emergency market analysis in general but who don't necessarily have the time, or the mandate, to participate in an actual market assessment. It may be useful for decision makers, such as country directors, donor representatives, technical coordinators and cluster leads, among others. It also may be useful for people who might like to participate in an assessment team but don't know much about the subject matter.
EMMA is a set of tools and guidance notes that encourages and assists front-line humanitarian staff in sudden-onset emergencies to better understand, accommodate, and make use of market systems. It does not offer a simplistic blue-print for action. However, EMMA does provide accessible, relevant guidance to staff who are not already specialists in market analysis. The EMMA Toolkit is available for free download from this website in English, French and Spanish. French and English versions of the EMMA toolkit are also available from Practical Action Publishing. Hard copies come with a heavy-...
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