Revitalizing M&E systems in humanitarian and fragile settings: the success story of …
Review workshop for the first phase of the project to improve monitoring capacity in humanitarian and fragile settings, September 2023. Photo credit: WHO/Health Emergencies Programme
15 October 2023, Cairo, Egypt – In the complex landscape of fragile, conflict-affected and vulnerable (FCV) settings, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) play a crucial role in ensuring response efficiency and effectiveness and in improving health outcomes.
Data collection in these settings presents some unique challenges, however. These include, but are not limited to, the following:
Limited access to conflict-affected areas due to safety concerns can make it hard to reach affected populations and collect accurate data.
Displacement and mobility, with people moving frequently within and across borders, make it difficult to track and collect data on vulnerable populations over time.
Limited infrastructure and resources, including reliable internet connectivity, electricity and transportation, can hinder timely and efficient collection, storage and transmission of data.
Fragmented data collection efforts can lead to inconsistencies in data collection methodologies and indicators, which make it challenging to compare and analyse data across response efforts and countries/territories and may hinder overall data quality.
To tackle these challenges and improve the monitoring of