Assessing the needs of refugees and migrants and the other population groups of interest is a key requirement for each national/sub-regional chapter of the RMRP. For the purposes of the RMRP 2022, this document gives guidance and provides specific resources on how to define information needs and collect the required information, to later analyze the resulting information during joint analysis sessions with RMRP partners.

Secondary data is defined as information that has been collected, sometimes analyzed, and disseminated by different actors. This information could originate from humanitarian and development partners, governments, academia, media outlets and the private sector. Reviewing this information is an essential component of all data collection exercises as it avoids duplication of efforts, saves time and resources, and improves impartial and harmonized data. It can provide information that cannot be collected firsthand and facilitates a much broader understanding than that which primary data collection may be able to provide.

Sources can vary and can include situation reports, needs assessment reports, media and official statements. Among others, one of the primary outputs of the secondary data review can be an estimate of the number of people in need per sector, in a given geographic location.

Where the secondary data review identifies large information gaps in specific thematic or geographic areas or for specific sub-demographics of the population of refugees and migrants (such as women, children, etc) a joint primary data collection is required to fill priority information gaps and to capture the perspectives on the priorities as expressed by the different population groups.

Primary data collection should only be undertaken if enough resources, including time and expertise, are available to create reliable and useful estimates of the population of interest. In primary data collection, consider assigning a specific role to a member of the assessment team to ensure that the cross-cutting themes – gender, PSEA, AAP, centrality of protection and environment – are addressed in assessment tools, consultations, and data collection.

Joint Needs Assessments (JNA) are how organizations identify and measure the humanitarian needs of a disaster-affected community. Simply put, needs assessment are the best way to answer the question: "What assistance do disaster-affected communities need?". They use various methods to collect and analyse information. These enable the organization to make good decisions about how to allocate resources and gather more resources to meet the needs of the affected populations. In emergencies, joint needs assessments also make good decision-making possible. They do this by putting information together to build up a full picture of the needs of the disaster-affected community.

Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) are core pillars of the RMRP 2022. As shared responsibility of all R4V partners and personnel and as crucial elements to “good programming”, national/sub-regional operations should include AAP and PSEA as underpinning components of their strategy for the response.

To support partners in this effort, this document provides guidance and suggestions on how AAP and PSEA can be mainstreamed across the sectoral responses and organizational activities and ensure the delivery of safe, relevant, and timely assistance. The document also seeks to advise on how to make action collective to ensure partners contribute to building an accountable response through the implementation of the R4V response.

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This year, the formulation of regional planning assumptions follows the following main steps:

1. National and Regional Platform stakeholders (incl. participating organizations, donors, refugee-/migrant-led organizations) completed a survey on national planning assumptions [June 2021]

2. General results and key regional planning assumptions and the methodology used were presented at the plenary meeting of the Regional Platform of 8 July. The results of the survey will be published on R4V.info.

3. Based on the regionally agreed planning assumptions, each National Platform’s Coordination team will develop more detailed national planning scenarios and population projections with R4V partners and host governments at the country level (see hereto also the “Populations Projections” section below).

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In addition to responding to the principles established in several international frameworks such as the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants (2016) or the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2018), the GAM is a standardized tool to design and implement better projects and to develop capacities for gender mainstreaming, including age and disability. It is also the only quantitative source of global data that allows the RMRP to have an overall report on its progress in this regard. The GAM encourages planning, implementing, and monitoring plans and projects to reflect on the specific needs of the population based on gender, age and/or disability, and to identify whether the proposed assistance is relevant, responsive, and adapted to the needs and priorities of all population groups.

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