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SMART
Methodology Version 1
March 6, 2007
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Presentation
& Demonstration Summary
(PDF 34kb)
Objectives:
· To introduce SMART Methodology Version 1 to NGO partners
· To provide hands-on experience with Nutrisurvey software
program
· To discuss NGO monitoring and evaluation (relief and
development)
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SMART
Methodology Version 1
April 2006
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Chad
(Action Against Hunger USA – nutrition/mortality/software)
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Madagascar
(UNICEF – nutrition/mortality/software)
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Mali
(Action Against Hunger Spain – nutrition/mortality/software)
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Niger
(Action Against Hunger Spain – nutrition/mortality/software)
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Nigeria
(MSF/France – food security)
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Somalia
(FAO – nutrition/software).
Grateful thanks to those
who used the draft and provided feedback for finalizing Version
1. We encourage further field use to help develop Version 2. A meeting
will be organized in about 10-12 months to collectively review these
field experiences.
A comprehensive capacity
building program is being initiated to help field implementers.
Opportunities for training will be announced via this website.
This critical work was
made possible by funds provided by the Canadian International Development
Agency (CIDA). Thanks also to those who provided their own funds
for pilot-testing, including Action Against Hunger, MSF, and FAO/Somalia.
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SMART
Roll Out Meeting
“Saving Lives: the Right Information for the Right Decision”
June 23 - 24, 2005
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UNICEF is pleased to
announce that SMART Methodology Version 1, with a Windows-based
analytical software program and standardized reporting format,
has been developed and pilot-tested by partners. This is a significant
contribution that will begin the harmonization of needs assessments
and monitoring of emergencies. The SMART Methodology draws from
core elements of several methodologies and current best practices
in assessing nutritional status, mortality rate, and food security.
It is iterative, with continuous upgrading that will be informed
by research and best practices. In this primer version, the food
security component is “work in progress.”
This is a follow-up
to the July 2002 international workshop, organized by the U.S.
Agency for International Development (USAID), that recommended
the development of the SMART standardized methodology. We are
very grateful to The Canadian International Development Agency
(CIDA) for supporting this critical work.
The June 23rd opening event was hosted by the UNICEF Executive
Director, Ms. Ann Veneman, followed by a technical meeting that
discussed SMART Methodology Version 1. The proceedings from the
meeting will be available soon.
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SMART
Protocol 01/27/05 (*.htm)
(*.pdf)
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"SMART Protocol
Version 1" has been developed and is available for review.
This is a survey methodology that integrates the assessment of
nutritional status, mortality rate and food security with an accompanying
windows-based analytical software. The software is simple and
flexible for data entry and analysis, with quality assurance checks
built into the program. The software is available at www.nutrisurvey.de/ena/ena.htm.
The development of the "SMART Protocol" is iterative
based on research findings and best practices. The attached draft
"Version 1" should serve as the primer or the basic
essential tool for assessment.
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CE-DAT:
A Global Database on the Human Impact of Conflicts and other Complex
Emergencies
The Complex Emergency Database (CE-DAT) is an international
initiative to monitor and evaluate the health status of populations
in regions affected by conflicts and other complex emergencies.
CE-DAT, maintained
by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, aims
to:
- Provide key mortality,
nutritional and health indicators for rational humanitarian aid
decision-making.
- Promote the effectiveness
of international policies on conflict prevention and response
through evidence-based trend analyses and impact briefings.
- Strengthen the capacity
of national and international field agencies in data collection.
- Improve standardization
and establish norms to enable the comparability of complex emergency
data across time and space.
The database, covering some 40 countries worldwide, is publicly-accessible
through the CE-DAT website and includes essential health indicators
such as mortality, malnutrition, and vaccination coverage rates.
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Ralte,
Anne (USAID). SMART: a collaborative approach to determining
humanitarian needs, Humanitarian Exchange, Humanitarian
Practice Network at ODI, Number 32 December 2005.
"The way in which
humanitarian needs are defined and prioritised can mean the difference
between life and death for millions of the world’s poorest
people. It is,therefore, critical that donors and humanitarian organisations
invest effort and resources to ensure that our understanding is
as accurate as possible, and programmes are directed to those most
in need.
Responses to emergencies require a consistently accurate picture
of the scale and nature of the problems people face. Decisions should
be informed by that understanding. But until now there has been
no system-wide framework for judging the relative severity of situations.
This may change with the Standardised Monitoring and Assessment
of Relief and Transitions (SMART) initiative."
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This program
is developed as an interagency collaboration. Program web site is developed
and maintained by the Linking Complex Emergency
Response and Transition Initiative (CERTI) and hosted by the Payson
Center for International Development and Technology Transfer, part
of Tulane University.
Please
note that this web site is intended to be an online workspace
for the SMART program, and as such is under constant revision.
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