Humanitarian Response in Violent Conflict - A Toolbox of Conflict Sensitive Indicators

Emergency preparedness and response require rapid programming combined with quick, almost reflexive decision-making, which can present numerous challenges to integration efforts at each stage of the project cycle. For example, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is challenging because it must be adapted to the pace and context of humanitarian response work.
The 2012 SIP centered on developing practical tools to facilitate integrating conflict sensitivity into the full humanitarian response project cycle. Participants stressed the importance of carrying out sound assessments and analysis as sine qua non for M&E systems. One of the SIP outcomes was a commitment to design clear indicators for conflict sensitivity and peacebuilding in humanitarian response programs. These indicators would be used by humanitarian response, justice and peacebuilding practitioners, as well as other sectoral technical advisors, to ensure that the processes and tools used to build staff and partner capacity are conflict sensitive.