Evaluation brief: Experience and learning from pilots of good practices in humanitarian market analysis

Through the Improving the Uptake of Humanitarian Market Analysis project, the IRC aimed to help facilitate the systematic use of market information for humanitarian programming across sectors. It did this by attempting to address some of the main barriers to the uptake of market information, namely, the perception and practice of market assessments as time- and resourceintensive undertakings; a lack of in-country ownership and leadership of market assessments; inadequate attention to markets in pre-crisis contexts and the limited knowledge and capacity in market analysis among field level practitioners and beyond the food security and livelihoods sector. The core of this initiative consisted of a series of activities undertaken in collaboration with CRS and Mercy Corps to identify, pilot and evaluate practices that can increase the systematic use of market analysis and the uptake of resulting data