Understand the systems shaping risk, access, and recovery

ERC may support research framing, contextual review, primary and secondary data collection, market observation, price monitoring design, household or key-informant inquiry, vulnerability and capacity analysis, environmental assessment questions, GIS-supported analysis, interpretation, and decision communication.

Methods may include household surveys, trader or service-provider interviews, market observation, price collection, key informant interviews, focus groups, seasonal and contextual review, vulnerability and capacity assessment, document review, and spatial analysis using verified data.

Quality safeguards may include clear market and product definitions, consistent units, documented collection timing, triangulation across actors and sources, attention to seasonal variation, disaggregation where safe and meaningful, transparent limitations, and conflict-sensitive data collection.

• Study or monitoring design
• Data collection and market observation tools
• Clean data and analytical tables
• Climate vulnerability or market assessment report
• Cash feasibility or price-monitoring product
• GIS-supported analysis using verified sources
• Briefing, validation session, or decision presentation

Share the intended decision, locations, population or market system, season and timing, available price or climate data, access conditions, stakeholder groups, products or services of interest, and required outputs.