Excerpt – Use of Humanitarian Assistance Data in Scenario Building: a review of FEWS NET’s current approach.

The following is an excerpt from Shannon’s report on the process of making humanitarian assumptions when analyzing potential food crises; it highlights the data sources, common problems staff encounter in the process, and a step-by-step process for making accurate assumption. The full report is not available outside of FEWS NET management, but these are the most important pieces of the work. These quotes are mainly from field staff members, based on their own experiences.