Market assessment tools 

• Living with Incontinence, Sudan, 2023
  Sudanese Red Crescent Society  togehter with Netherlands Red Cross implemented a program supporting people suffering from incontinence. Part of this project was also the assessment of the possibility of making use of markets to support people with incontinece products.
  Below is a recording of a presentation that was prepared about this project as a contribution to the emergency environmental health forum 2023. The full report is in the making.

• Pre-crisis market assessment & training Baringo County, Kenya, 2021
  Kenyan Red Cross Society - KRCS facilitated a training about pre-crisis market assessments including a practical conduction of an actual WASH market assessment in Baringo County in Septempter 2021. This was done in collaboration with other WASH sector actors, incl government, Unicef and NGOs.

  • Crisis scenario: Droughts

  • WASH markets: Water; Jerry-cans; Soap; Water-guard (a household-water-treatment-product)

Below you find the report about the training/market assessment as well as a video from a presentation that the author Fredrick Orimba gave about it.

• Nepal WASH PCMA 2021
  NRCS conducted a Pre-Crises Market Mapping and Analysis (PCMA) to assess the feasibility of a market-based WASH response in flood prone areas of province 2. The exercise sought to answer two critical questions related to the markets of soap, female sanitary pads, ORS, chlorine, handpump materials and mechanics and latrine slab and ring producers. 

• Does the market system have the capacity to meet the needs and services people need in sufficient quantities and at reasonable prices?  

• Which types of market-based responses are the most cost efficient/effective and feasible?