Market monitoring
Operational standards
Markets are consistently monitored, beyond price monitoring
Key Actions
- Monitor/identify a partner who monitor market-related indicators that, at minimum, capture the price changes, volume of transactions, avaibility of goods and the ability of the beneficiary household to access the market
- UNHCR, Multi-sector Market Assessment: Companion Guide and Toolkit
- CARE
- Market monitoring form
- PDMA.xlsx
- PM.xlsx
- IRC Safer Cash
- Determine the frequency with which monitoring should occur by considering the robustness of the initial market assessment, the expected volatility of the market and the relative scale of the programme compared to local markets
- Ensure sufficient resources for regular and timely market monitoring
- IFRC/ICRC CiE Toolkit – Market Monitoring (full submodule)
- Monitor traders
- Monitor price data
- M5_3_2_1 Secondary market price data checklist (English); (French); (Spanish); (Arabic)
- M5_3_2_2 How to collect market price checklist (English); (French); (Spanish); (Arabic)
- M5_3_2_3 Price collection form template (English); (French); (Spanish);(Arabic)
- M5_3_2_4 Organizing market price data checklist (English); (French); (Spanish); (Arabic)
- M5_3_2_5 Price database template (English); (French); (Spanish); (Arabic)
- M5_3_2_6 Analysing price changes (English); (French); (Spanish); (Arabic)
- Respond to price changes
- IFRC/ICRC CiE Toolkit – For Vouchers
- Use the results of market monitoring to assess the appropriateness of the intervention and to make programmatic changes if required
- Share market monitoring data with coordination groups